Mark Judge:

The details, some of which even many conservatives are not aware, are crucial here. When faced with a nominee they don’t like—basically anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders—the left finds a way to make accusations of sexual misconduct. Here is the important part: These accusations are often completely fabricated and amount to criminal attempts at extortion. This is what they did to me.

The plan was to get me, a former drinker, to pin some crazy stuff on Kavanaugh whether any of it was true or not. This is why when Ronan Farrow called me in September 2018 and asked about me “and Brett Kavanaugh involved in sexual misconduct in the 1980s” he was so vague. I was accused by Farrow of doing something bad, somewhere, to someone, at some time during a 10-year period. That left room to extort me because I was given no facts to deny. They could claim I was anywhere at any time and then demand I sink my friend—or else.

On Sept. 24, 2018, I got a phone message from a sinister voice. “You like f**king with people?” it hissed. “I like to f**k with people too. Give me a call. We can work out a deal.” On Sept. 26, my lawyer asked me to come into her office. I sat down and she asked a direct question: “Who did you lose your virginity to?” Apparently, there was someone claiming that “in the context of a conversation about losing virginity” I’d talked about how I had lost mine. I’d lost mine, the claim was, in a group sex situation that may or may not have been rape. Among others, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker reporter who fell for the Russia collusion hoax, went on MSNBC to claim that as kids “while at Georgetown Prep” some friends and I had group sex with an older woman. Mayer is now the lead hound in the media dogpile going after Pete Hegseth. In the end, I had to tell my lawyer the name of the girl to whom I had lost my virginity. Fortunately, the woman in question is a terrific person, a wife and mother now, and I can only assume she vouched for me because I never heard about it again.

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