Brett Kavanaugh's Alleged Accomplice Has Spent Years Trying to Discredit Rape Accusations Online
Over the weekend, Christine Blasey Ford went on the record to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to sexually assault her when they were in high school. Since then, Kavanaugh’s relationship with Mark Judge, the high school friend of Kavanaugh’s who Ford alleges was in the room during the incident, has come under scrutiny. In Ford’s account, it was Judge jumping on both of them that allowed her to escape.
Judge is a conservative author who has written for publications like the Daily Caller and American Spectator and published the book Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk, in which he describes his experience as a teenage alcoholic. In her account, Ford alleged that both Judge and Kavanaugh were “stumbling drunk” at the time of the incident. (In the Weekly Standard, Judge denied the alleged events ever took place.) In his book, Judge describes someone named “Bart O’Kavanaugh” puking after drinking too much, according to Mother Jones.
That’s just the beginning of Judge’s checkered history in publishing. The magazine summarized another bit of his illustrious career:
Judge’s more controversial writings include a 2012 Daily Caller column about his bike getting stolen and “the very high odds” the thief was a black man. A piece he wrote in 2006 on PoliticalMavens.com starts out with a incendiary question: “You’re thinking it even if you don’t say it: Are gay people perverts?”
As several journalists on Twitter pointed out, Judge has also spent a significant amount of time questioning other accounts of sexual assault and asserting other deeply gross ideas about sexuality, including suggesting that a clothing choice could incite rape.