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Republican: "Rape Allegations Against Politicians Are Fabricated 99% Of The Time"

Following the controversy surrounding President Trump's supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh over the past few weeks with three women coming forward to claim that the judge sexually assaulted them in the 1980's, it quickly developed into a extremely hyper-partisan issue with those on the left choosing to support the women's claims and those on the right dismissing the allegations as politically motivated.

Now in steps a Republican Senate nominee from Mississippi, Chris McDaniel, who when interviewed by Bryan Fischer, a man who has claimed that the Holocaust was caused by homosexuals and that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian, on Fischer's Focal Point radio show stated that "these allegations 99% of the time are just absolutely fabricated", where McDaniel got that number from is truly anyone's guess.

McDaniel continued: "We have a system where Judge Kavanaugh is obviously well suited for, and they're going to drag something up even theoretically, allegedly from all those years ago that suddenly disqualifies this man, all of a sudden he's a terrible human being. No not a chance. I don't fall for it anymore. I hope the American people aren't falling for it. These allegations 99% of the time are just absolutely fabricated."


When asked to clarify his statements McDaniel uses a right-wing trick that is very much in vogue right now: claiming that your words are misrepresented or taken out of context when quoted verbatim. A tactic which is extremely popular with the likes of Jordan Peterson fans.

A spokesman for McDaniel told WLOX, "He's not saying 99% of all sexual misconduct allegations are false" but followed up by stating that "when it's against a high profile figure, 99% of the time they are (fabricated) yes." Schrodinger's sexual misconduct allegations, apparently.

 Kavanaugh was accused of pinning 51-year-old psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford to a bed while they were both at a party in the 1980's as high school students. Ford alleged that Kavanaugh "groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothes she wore on top of it."

None of these allegations mattered however, as Kavanaugh is now a Supreme Court Justice after receiving key confirmation votes from undecided Republicans and more conservative Democrats and an investigation into the allegations was extremely rushed and some witnesses were never even interviewed.
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