The attorney for a second woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct said Wednesday that she would be willing to testify at a Senate hearing and is certain about her encounter with the Supreme Court nominee in the 1980s.
“She would be willing to testify, but we can’t even talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee about what that would look like, and they certainly haven’t invited her,” John Clune said on NBC’s “Today” show.
He also re-emphasized that his client, Deborah Ramirez, would like to see the FBI look into her allegations but left open the possibility of testifying without an investigation.
“That’s a decision I’ll certainly let her make. I would be very concerned about doing that, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she would agree to do that,” Clune said. “But we’ll wait to see if she actually gets that invitation and we’ll go from there.”
Ramirez, 53, told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a booze-fueled party when they were freshmen at Yale University in the 1980s.
Clune said Ramirez was certain that Kavanaugh was involved despite President Trump on Tuesday questioning her account because she admitted she had been drinking at the time.
“The second accuser has nothing,” the president told reporters at the United Nations General Assembly.
“Now a new charge comes up and she says it may not be him and there are gaps. And she was totally inebriated and all messed up, and she doesn’t know,” Trump said. “It might have been him, or it might have been him.”
Clune told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that Ramirez “believes wholeheartedly that it was Judge Kavanaugh.”
“The comment by the president is pretty disgusting and pretty hurtful,” he said Wednesday.
Ramirez’s accusations came days after Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist at Palo Alto University in California, said a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her and put his hand over her mouth to stop her from calling out during a high school party in 1982.
Ford is expected to testify Thursday morning at the Senate Judiciary Committee.
