The powerful strength-in-numbers statement, offered to bolster Kavanaugh’s denial of a claim that he attacked a girl at a party during their high school years, has drawn questions from journalists, social media skeptics, even Hollywood figures. Women who organized and signed it say it was a rapid response by a social network that endures decades after they graduated. When word of a high-school-era sexual misconduct allegation against Kavanaugh emerged last Thursday afternoon, Meghan McCaleb and her husband, Scott, thought they and other high school friends of the nominee needed to speak out. “I feel like I would know all that,” said Clark, who socialized with Kavanaugh amid groups of friends at parties. … He just wasn’t that guy,” said Williams, who recalls hanging out with Kavanaugh mainly in groups but sometimes one-on-one.

Source: National Post September 19, 2018 21:11 UTC