https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20%28Munro-Leighton%20Referral%29%20with%20redacted%20enclosures.pdf
One of the accusers has recanted.
Just to be clear, that anonymous rape accusation was never brought up publicly, and also was not recanted.
Instead, this lady sent in someone else's unsubstantiated letter as her own, then admitted to doing so. If this story had ever been publicized as one of Kavanaugh's four accusers, you'd have a better case to argue "one of his acusers has recanted" because none of those four have done so. This lady never testified under oath, never met with a lawyer, never anything except send someone else's misappropriated letter to congress.
That is not recanting. The original author of that letter appears to still be unknown, but has not recanted it. This lady who stole the letter admitted to sending it as if it were her own, and is being prosecuted for it. Not the same thing as recanting.
But I suppose you'll call that fake news, right?
Sorry Sol, went back and looked at it again, and on this one you are wrong. She DID accuse him of rape, and she DID recant. So my original post on this was 100% correct. That she played a weird game with some other person's letter is besides the point. She is just another nutty political activist.
By the way, did you read the letter? Amazing! Like some bodice-ripper. How anyone took that seriously I can't guess.
Let's go back to your original statement, "One of the accusers has recanted". Technically speaking this may be a true statement but it is misleading at best and debatably untrue within the context of this thread.
When you say "one of the accusers" this implies one of the 4 accusers who have been discussed in this thread. The woman you are referring to was not one of them. If you had said "One
of the accuser
s" It would have been less misleading, but still largely irrelevant.
Basically the standards for your statement to be true are low enough that any one of us could make an accusation against Kavanaugh today, recant it tomorrow, and the same would be true of us. Do you really think this is relevant to the discussion?
ETA: Just found Trump's tweet regarding this other accuser
"A vicious accuser of Justice Kavanaugh has just admitted that she was lying, her story was totally made up, or FAKE! Can you imagine if he didn’t become a Justice of the Supreme Court because of her disgusting False Statements. What about the others? Where are the Dems on this?"
— Donald J. Trump (
@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2018
Even Trump didn't go as far as to refer to her as "One of the accusers". His statement is however misleading for other reasons.