HERE WE GO-> Both of Justin Fairfax’s Accusers Are Willing to Testify at Impeachment Proceedings Against the Virginia Lt. Governor
February 10, 2019
Embattled Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax denied the sexual assault allegations brought against him by two different women and called for the FBI to investigate the allegations.
“As an officer of the court and a former federal prosecutor, I have dedicated my life to the law and due process,” Justin Fairfax said in a statement Saturday. “Consequently, I call on all appropriate and impartial investigatory authorities, including the FBI, to investigate fully and thoroughly the allegations against me by Ms. Watson and Dr. Tyson. I ask that all three of us be respected during this process.”
Both women accusing Fairfax of sexual assault are willing to testify at impeachment proceedings against the Virginia Lt. Governor, according to their attorneys.
“The one thing I want to make abundantly clear is that in both situations I knew at the time, and I know today, that the interactions were consensual,” Fairfax said Saturday.
A second woman came forward and accused Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual assault on Friday.
The second accuser, a woman named Meredith Watson, requested the resignation of Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax through her attorney Nancy Erika Smith on Friday, alleging Fairfax raped her in college in the year 2000.
Ms. Watson alleges Justin Fairfax raped her in a “premeditated and aggressive” attack while the two were students at Duke University in 2000.
According to the statement released by attorney Nancy Erika Smith, Meredith Watson has contemporaneous witnesses who have provided statements corroborating Ms. Watson’s claims Fairfax raped her.
“I deny this latest unsubstantiated allegation. It is demonstrably false. I have never forced myself on anyone,” Fairfax said.
Mr. Fairfax concluded his statement by calling the sexual assault allegations against him “a vicious and coordinated smear campaign” that is being orchestrated against him.
“I will not resign,” he stated.
Dr. Vanessa Tyson, the first woman to accuse Justin Fairfax of sexual assault has a very compelling, believable story, however she does not offer any contemporaneous witnesses to corroborate her claims Mr. Fairfax sexually assaulted her at a DNC convention in Boston in 2004.
To be clear, a lack of contemporaneous witnesses does not mean Dr. Tyson was never sexually assaulted by Justin Fairfax.
Dr. Tyson says after she was assaulted by Justin Fairfax, she “suffered from both deep humiliation and shame,” a common thing women experience after a traumatic sexual assault.
Both women who allege they were sexually assaulted by Justin Fairfax should be heard and taken seriously.
To further put this into context, Christine Blasey Ford didn’t even offer up one contemporaneous witness to corroborate her claims Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a decades-old drunken high school party, yet the Senate Judiciary Committee allowed her to publicly testify against Kavanaugh.
Justin Fairfax is under tremendous pressure to resign by Monday, but VA Gov. Ralph Northam and VA AG Mark Herring seem to be surviving their blackface, KKK scandals.
‘Don’t want to get into that’: Democrats’ #MeToo double standard on Kavanaugh and Fairfax
Whether the Democrats went too hard in their pursuit of Brett Kavanaugh for alleged sexual assault, or have been too soft on fellow party member Justin Fairfax, it all amounts to the same thing – hypocrisy is an unbecoming look.
Unlike the since-confirmed Supreme Court justice, who was accused of a nearly forty-year-old crime with no verifiable dates, witnesses, circumstances or even a location, the allegations which the Virginia lieutenant governor faces are relatively recent, specific, and involve different accounts of an encounter that both parties admitted happened.
Yet, even though Fairfax accuser Vanessa Tyson hiring the same legal team as Christine Blasey Ford, among the top Democrats there hasn’t been a rush to “believe all women.”
Democrats on Kavanaugh
“I cannot sit here, I cannot participate in what I know history is going to look back on as a dark moment,” presidential candidate and New Jersey senator Cory Booker said as he explained his reasons for rejecting Kavanaugh. “You are either complicit in the evil, you are either contributing to the wrong, or you are fighting against it.”
“This is a real test for our nation to see how we treat women, especially women who are victims of sexual assault,” said senior California Senator Dianne Feinstein.
“I believe her,” said junior California Senator Kamala Harris.
“Over 150 sexual assault survivors have reached out to me to say they are dismayed by the Senate’s actions, they struggle to see empathy in the eyes of their leaders, and they now fear no one would take them seriously if they came forward with their own stories. I want them and all survivors to know this: You don’t need to suffer in silence. You deserve to be taken seriously. You deserve to be listened to,” said Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, disheartened after Kavanaugh narrowly won the confirmation vote.
“I believe Dr. Ford. Brett Kavanaugh does not belong on the Supreme Court,” said the independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
“We have to think about what it would mean if Judge Kavanaugh were to be confirmed to the Supreme Court with credible sexual assault allegations against him, Specifically what it would mean to the millions of women across America who were survivors of sexual assault, women who have been scared to come forward with their stories for fear they would be mocked, ridiculed, and shunned,” opined Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois.
Democrats on Fairfax
“I am not getting into that. I have so many things I am working on, this isn’t one of them,” saidDurbin, adding “I don’t know her” about Tyson.
“I don’t want to get into that,” said Feinstein, after saying that she “doesn’t know” who Justin Fairfax is, despite him being next in line for Virginia governorship.
“I think we should be focusing on what’s right now happening with the governor. I know you guys are going to try to focus on a lot of things right now, but right now my focus is on again calling for the governor to step down,” said Booker,changing the subject to Virginia governor Ralph Northam’s blackface scandal – though he did subsequently call for an investigation into Fairfax.
“It’s premature,” said Kaine, explaining why he isn’t calling for the resignation for Fairfax who is “someone we know real well” and “denies the charges unequivocally.”
“I haven’t had the chance to see her. I did have the chance to see Dr. Blasey Ford testify right in the room in front of me. So she had a chance to display great personal credibility. I have not seen this other witness or victim,” said Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, demanding a personal testimony before he is convinced.
“Busy with bills and focused on matters at hand right now,” said leader of Virginia House Democrats Eileen Filler-Corn. Shejust doesn’t have the time.
Nolte: Day After Airing $5.2M Ad, We Learn WaPo Buried Assault Claim Against Dem
By John Nolte
During Sunday’s Super Bowl the far-left Washington Post spent $5.2 million to run a self-aggrandizing ad about the importance of capital “J” Journalism.
Big movie star Tom Hanks closes the ad with this: “There’s someone to gather the facts, to bring you the story — no matter the cost because knowing empowers us. Knowing helps us decide. Knowing keeps us free.”
Knowing, y’all.
Knowing.
You see, that’s why journalism is so gosh-darned important — it’s journalists letting the rest of us know about stuff we need to know about.
It’s the knowing that helps us decide and the knowing that keeps us free, and without journalism and journalists letting us know we wouldn’t know how to decide or know how to be free, so thank the Good Lord for the journalists who let us in on the know, ya’ know?
But less than 24 hours after this pompous ad aired, we learned that the ad was missing a key piece of information about the stuff journalism and its journalists don’t want us to know, and of course I am speaking about that which is harmful to a Democrat.
Case in point: the sexual assault allegation against Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor of Virginia — a Democrat.
According to the Post, in November of 2017, a woman approached them with the claim that after meeting up at the 2004 Democrat National Convention in Boston, Fairfax forced her to perform oral sex on him in his hotel room.
Fairfax denies any wrongdoing. He says the sex was consensual.
The Post chose not to publish the story, the Post decided we did not need to know about this allegation — that we did not need to know this particular piece of information, that knowing about this did not rise to the standard of what we need to know to keep us free.
Here is how the Post explained its reasoning for keeping the American people from knowing this:
The Post, in phone calls to people who knew Fairfax from college, law school and through political circles, found no similar complaints of sexual misconduct against him. Without that, or the ability to corroborate the woman’s account — in part because she had not told anyone what happened — The Post did not run a story.
Fair enough.
Except…
Later that same year, this is the same Washington Post that very, very, very strongly believed we most definitely needed to know about every single allegation against Brett Kavanaugh — you know, the guy President Trump nominated to serve on the Supreme Court.
In fact, the Post was so eager for us to know about the allegations against Kavanugh, it was the Post that broke the story wide open by reporting every sordid detail about the allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford.
And yet…
While the Post is correct that Fairfax’s accuser did not tell anyone about the alleged assault at the time… Uhm, neither did Ford.
In fact…
For a whole host of reasons, the allegation against Fairfax is more credible than the allegation against Kavanaugh:
- The left-wing Ford had political motivation to stop a conservative judge from landing on the Supreme Court.
- Fairfax is a Democrat and so is his accuser.
- Every single one of Ford’s so-called witnesses could not remember our outright denied everything about Ford’s story. In other words, Kavanaugh has exonerating witnesses.
- There are no witnesses exonerating Fairfax.
- Ford could not remember the year of the alleged assault.
- Fairfax’s accuser knows the exact place.
- Ford could not remember the year of the alleged assault.
- Fairfax’s accuser knows the time and date.
- Kavanaugh denied any kind of encounter of any kind with Ford.
- While denying any wrongdoing, Fairfax does confirm a consensual sexual encounter.
And there you have it…
Yes, my fellow Deplorables, a mere 24 hours after the Washington Post spent $5.2 million to thump its sunken, metrosexual chest about how important the knowing is, the Post is caught red-handed trying to kill democracy in the darkness of double standards by covering up a sex assault allegation against one of its own — a Democrat.
And how many other venerated media institutions do you think knew about the Fairfax allegation, how many other choosers of what we should know and what we should not know covered up this allegation against one of their own — a Democrat?
Hey, in a perfect world, neither Fairfax nor Kavanaugh would be dealing with uncorroborated allegations that never should have seen the light of day.
But we do not live in a perfect world, we live in a depraved and partisan world where corrupt institutions like the Washington Post operate off of one set of knowing rules for Republicans and another for Democrats, and then spend $5.2 million on propaganda hoping we forget that.
NYT Changes Headline About Virginia AG Wearing “Dark Makeup” In College
by Ashe Schow
One left-wing media outlet quickly changed its headline about the latest Democrat scandal in Virginia after it was swiftly and thoroughly mocked online.
Once news broke that Democrat Mark Herring, Virginia’s Attorney General, had also worn blackface to party in the mid-1980s, outlets scrambled to get their piece of the traffic. Most headlines reported that Herring wore “blackface” to a party.
“Virginia Attorney General Says He Wore Blackface at College Party,” read the headline on Bloomberg.
“Virginia’s attorney general admits wearing blackface in college,” wrote the BBC.
“UPDATE: Virginia Attorney Mark Herring admits to wearing blackface at college party in 1980,” reported the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
“Virginia Attorney General Herring says he wore blackface in college,” was the headline at the Washington Post.
The list goes on.
But over at the New York Times, the headline was a little different.
“Virginia Attorney General Says He Also Dressed in Dark Makeup,” the Times reported.
Seriously? That’s quite the downplay. “Dark makeup” is used to describe women wearing lots of eyeliner or dark eyeshadow. This wording makes it sound like Herring dressed in drag in the 80s, something he may not be criticized for today.
It’s not even the wording Herring himself used in his statement on the issue. Herring said he wore “brown makeup,” so the Times couldn’t even pretend like they used the phrase because Herring did so.
“It sounds ridiculous even now writing it. But because of our ignorance and glib attitudes – and because we did not have an appreciation for the experiences and perspectives of others – we dressed up and put on wigs and brown makeup,” Herring said in his statement.
“That conduct clearly shows that, as a young man, I had a callous and inexcusable lack of awareness and insensitivity to the pain my behavior could inflict on others,” he added. “It was really a minimization of both people of color, and a minimization of a horrific history I knew well even then.”
Within minutes of being called out on social media, the Times stealth-edited the headline. There’s no acknowledgement anywhere about the change.
The new headline reads: “Virginia Attorney General Says He Also Dressed in Blackface.”
Jonathan Martin, one of the Times authors of the article, likely didn’t write the headline, as he has been astutely covering the story in detail for days on Twitter. The article itself certainly does not attempt to shield Herring, or Gov. Ralph Northam of Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax – also Democrats – from the scandals in which they are now enveloped. Northam, after defending infanticide, was accused of donning blackface or a KKK robe in a photo in his medical school yearbook. He at first apologized for appearing in the photo, but then said he was not in the photo, but had dressed as Michael Jackson at another time.
Fairfax has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention when he was a John Kerry campaign staffer. All of this is included, at length, in the Times article, but the way the paper chose to originally present the headline is telling.
Justin Fairfax Suspects Ralph Northam Revived Sex Assault Allegation to Prevent His Ouster
By Joshua Caplan
Democrat Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax on Monday hinted that Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) is responsible for the resurfacing of sexual assault allegation against him to keep his post.
The alleged incident purportedly occurred during the 2004 Democrat National Convention in Boston, Massachusettes.
The Washington Post reported Monday that it was approached by a woman accusing Fairfax in 2017 and investigated the claim, yet never published a story for lack of any independent evidence. The Post said the woman had not told anyone about it, and the account could not be corroborated while Fairfax denied it. The paper was unable to find other similar allegations against him among people who knew him in college, law school or in politics.
The allegations were first reported by Big League Politics, the news outlet that first published the yearbook image.
Asked by a reporter if he suspects Northam is responsible for the allegation’s revival, Fairfax responded: “Does anybody think it’s any coincidence that on the eve of potentially my being elevated that that’s when this uncorroborated smear comes out?”
In a statement shared to his official Twitter account, Fairfax denied the allegation, maintaining that he “has never assaulted anyone – ever – in any way, shape or form.”
“Lt. Governor Fairfax has an outstanding and well-earned reputation for treating people with dignity and respect,” the statement said. “This is part of the sad and dark politics that the Lt. Governor has dedicated himself to helping Virginia and the nation rise above,” it continued.
Lastly, the statement warned the Fairfax would wage “appropriate legal action against those attempting to spread this defamatory and false allegation.”
Later in the day, the Washington Post pushed back, saying Fairfax was inaccurate in his claim that the paper had found “significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegations.”
Northam consulted with top administration officials Monday about whether he should stay in office or resign amid an uproar over a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page.
Virtually all of the state’s Democratic establishment — and Republican leaders, too — turned against the 59-year-old Democrat after the picture surfaced of someone in blackface next to another person in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe.
Northam stayed out of sight as he met with his Cabinet and senior staff, following a meeting the night before with minority officials in his administration. The governor wanted to hear their assessment of whether it is feasible for him to stay in office, according to a top administration official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The meetings included frank conversations about the difficulties of governing under such circumstances, according to reports.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Disgraced NY AG used campaign cash to defend against sex abuse claims
Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman used funds from his reelection campaign to pay for his legal defense during an investigation into allegations he slapped, choked, and otherwise abused multiple women.
Schneiderman, who portrayed himself as a champion for women and gallant #MeToo supporter while in office, resigned suddenly last May, hours after reports from four women claiming he’d slapped or choked them surfaced in a New Yorker article. It was the ultimate irony for the state AG, who had filed a lawsuit seeking better compensation for the women accusing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and misconduct earlier that year.
Using campaign funds to pay for legal defense does not break any rules in New York, as long as it involves matters related to an elected official’s duties. Responses to the revelations – reported by AP, based on Schneiderman’s own campaign finance reports – have not been kind to the fallen prosecutor.
“What a luxury to be able to assault women who donated to your campaign and then use the money to defend yourself,” said Michelle Manning Barish, a Democratic activist who accused Schneiderman of abusing her while they were dating in 2013. She was horrified to find out he’d paid for his legal defense out of the contributions of women like her, saying: “That money was given in good faith by donors who expected Mr. Schneiderman to help women.”
Schneiderman made his last payment to law firm Clayman & Rosenberg LLP in December, for a total of $339,710, a month after a special prosecutor closed the investigation without filing charges. The ex-AG did release a somewhat equivocal statement afterward, declaring he accepted “full responsibility for my conduct in my relationships with my accusers, and for the impact it had on them.”
One could say Schneiderman got his money’s worth, dodging charges for a sum amounting to less than half his re-election committee’s spending in the eight months following his resignation. He also continued to rent a Manhattan office and pay employee wages.
“Once the committee has honored all its commitments, the remaining funds will be donated to worthy and appropriate causes, consistent with the law,” a spokeswoman for Schneiderman said. The committee did refund about $1.5 million in contributions, but still has about $6.5 million in the bank. Barish called on donors to demand that the rest is given to charities for battered women and abuse survivors.
Spending campaign cash on legal defense is almost an institution in New York politics. Both former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R) and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D) spent millions of campaign dollars fighting corruption charges in recent years, though they were both eventually convicted.
“The system is a scandal,” said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.
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Previously Deported Illegal Immigrant Accused of Sexually Assaulting Child
By Merrill Hope
A previously deported illegal immigrant accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old was allegedly attempting to flee the United States to Mexico at the time of his apprehension Saturday, say police in Montgomery County, Texas.
Jose Manuel Tiscareno Hernandez, 31, who resided in Conroe, was charged with the aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to a media advisory released by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. It stated that the suspect was “in the country illegally and has been deported back to Mexico on multiple occasions.”
Montgomery County law enforcement authorities did not elaborate as to the duration of the purported sexual abuse or provide any information about the alleged victim other than stating the victim was 11 years old when the sexual abuse began.
The search for the suspect escalated on Thursday, January 10, when the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Special Victim’s Unit and crime investigators obtained a search warrant for Tiscareno Hernandez’s residence as part of a multi-agency probe into the sexual assault of a child, according to the press release.
“During the execution of the search warrant at the suspect’s residence, the suspect was not home but detectives received information that the suspect was intending to flee the United States and head back to Mexico,” stated Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office officials in the advisory.
In response to receiving that tip, investigators obtained an arrest warrant for Tiscareno Hernandez and a second search warrant, executed on Friday, January 11, at a different location to collect additional evidence related to the purported sexual assault of a child.
Then, on Saturday morning, January 12, state and federal law enforcement partners investigating this case located and apprehended the suspect in Conroe. Tiscareno Hernandez was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on $500,000 bond, according to online jail records.
Tiscareno Hernandez remains incarcerated, detained on a U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold requested by federal authorities because of the nature of the crime and the suspect’s current immigration status, according to the press release.
Following the arrest, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that numerous law enforcement agencies worked together to find and arrest the “sexual assault suspect.”
Those agencies included the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit and SWAT, as well as investigators with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, and special agents with the FBI, ICE, and the U.S. Marshals Service, according to the press release.
In Texas, the crime of sexual assault is considered “aggravated” sexual assault when it involves a child under the age of 14 years old. It is considered a first degree felony and the minimum term for this offense, if convicted, is 25 years in prison. It may also carry a fine up to a $10,000. Penalties may increase if additional charges are filed.
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