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Democrats’ desperate drive to derail the Brett Kavanaugh nomination just took a despicable new turn with a last-minute push to exploit an anonymous allegation that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s been sitting on for months.

With Kavanaugh poised to win confirmation with up to 55 votes, Judiciary Committee Dems late Wednesday plainly held a final does-anyone-have-anything? session. DiFi mentioned a confidential letter she’d received over the summer — and by the next day the partisans had made the core facts public.

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FIRST PROBLEM: THE ACCUSATION.
Strassel began by pointing out reports from the New York Times that suggested Feinstein had at least been aware of the letter’s existence since summer — and argued that if the accusation was truly damning enough to warrant an FBI investigation, it would have been reason enough for Feinstein to present it to authorities immediately.

SECOND PROBLEM: THE HANDLING.
Strassel went on to question whether a letter concerning enough to warrant a federal investigation should have been shared with Senate Republicans, who, just like their Democratic counterparts, were charged to “advise and consent” with regard to Kavanaugh’s nomination. Additionally, she suggested that if the accuser had explicitly stated a request to not take things further, Feinstein could be betraying that trust by going to the FBI

THIRD PROBLEM: THE TIMING.
Finally, Strassel argued that the timing of the letter’s introduction into public discourse “cannot be ignored” — it was made public only after Senate Democrats made numerous attempts to stall or delay Kavanaugh’s hearings, all of which were shut down.

Strassel’s overall assessment was that Democrats and the media were “using a secret letter with a secret accusation from a secret person, to try to take down Kavanaugh. Scary.”

Kimberley Strassel Picks Apart Feinstein’s Kavanaugh Letter: ‘Timing Here Cannot Be Ignored’