A New York Times The journalist offered a cull of sorts to an author whose reporting implicated him in sexual assault allegations against current Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
“I've spent a lot of time thinking about my role covering Kavanaugh, and I'd be happy to talk to you about it at some point. For now, I'll just say that I've learned some lessons and will probably do 'certain things different next time,'” the investigative reporter wrote in The New York Times' David Enrich to author and journalist Mark Judge revealed the exchange in an article for Chronicles Magazine.
“I got the unexpected response that I had never imagined, which was that the New York Times reporter who tried to ruin my life seemed remorseful.” The judge said Fox News Digital.
Judge alleges New York Times fueled 'completely false' dissent research by disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti and others that he and Judge Kavanaugh, his high school friend, were involved in drugging and raping high school girls Enrich was his 'partner in crime' Kate Kelly prosecuted In endorsing by revealing any embarrassing information they could find about him as a teenager, the judge says that in the years following the Kavanaugh hearings, many of the reporters involved were defamed Against him, they “hurt” over their role in destroying his life.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump,
Christine Blasey Ford accused the judge of being in the room when she alleged Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s, when the two were teenagers. The FBI interviewed him about his alleged role in the attack, which Ford said occurred at a party. Judge and Kavanaugh attended high school together at Georgetown Prep, while Ford attended the all-girls Holton Arms School.
The judge denied Ford's claims and claimed he never witnessed Kavanaugh engaging in the acts she described. No other witnesses were able to corroborate Ford's account or even recall seeing Ford and Kavanaugh together.
Enrich wrote that Judge was “a staple of the school's party scene” and described him as “Idiot ball with a big mouth“.
He reported on a high school yearbook group photo that featured the judge alongside future Justice Kavanaugh and which was labeled as “Renate Alumni” on the student’s profile page. Renate Schröder-Dolphin was a student at a nearby Catholic school.
Enrich also reported on an underground high school paper Judge wrote with two other classmates called “The Unknown Hoya” that allegedly contained sexual humor.
“The newspaper claimed that a public library card was ‘all it takes to have a good time with any HH (Houlton Housebag),” the article said, using slang for a promiscuous woman.
The judge who wrote about his experiences in his book “Devil's triangle“, Fox News Digital said Enrich and Kelly's reporting had a significant impact on his mental health and caused him to contemplate suicide.
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Christine Blasey Ford accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. (Left: (Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Right: (Photo by Saul Loeb Paul/Getty Images))
When the judge told Enrich that his and Kelly's reports had caused “a tremendous amount of harm and distress to my family” and “destroyed decades-long friendships,” he was shocked to see that a journalist who was apparently committed to his personal destruction had offered to help. He has compassion.
“I can't imagine what it was like for you to go through that,” Enrich said, according to the judge.
“For years, my friends at Georgetown and I have been saying, 'If there was someone with a conscience at the New York Times or the Washington Post, if only one of them would come forward and admit what they did here,' and I think we just get that,” Judge said. “I think we may have found one person with a conscience in David Enrich, and I don't want people to abuse him, I want to encourage him.”
A New York Times spokesperson said in a statement: “Mr. Judge's claims about our reporters' practices are not accurate. The Times' reporting on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination and confirmation process was comprehensive, independent, and fair, and we stand by it.”
Enrich and Kelly declined to comment for this article.
The author previously sat With Fox News host Martha MacCallum He claimed he was the victim of an extortion attempt after he refuted Ford's allegations.
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The judge recounted that he received a mysterious call from a number in California that he claimed was threatening him.
“(The caller was) smart enough to leave a message: 'Do you like dealing with people, Mark?'” he recalled. I like dealing with people too. “You better change your story.”
“So they were trying to blackmail me directly,” the judge alleged. He added that he passed the letter on to his lawyer, who said they submitted it to the FBI, but there was never any resolution.
Charles Kretz contributed to this report.
