Kavanaugh Texted Friends Before New Yorker Ramirez Report Released

New reporting from NBC shows that Brett Kavanaugh may have been communicating with mutual friends of his and Debbie Ramirez well before the New Yorker story broke regarding her accusation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her by, without being too graphic, shoved his *thing* in her face and then laughed about it.

(Ok, that was graphic. There was no way to not be graphic when telling that story)

So here is where the problem begins for Kavanaugh: before the story even broke, Kavanaugh (and his legal team) were text messaging friends from Yale to "refute the claim" and NBC has the receipts (ie, text messages) to prove it.

RUH ROH.

The friend in question, Kerry Berchem, was at Yale with both Kavanaugh and Ramierz and says the she has been trying to get the messages in question to the FBI, to no avail. NBC reports that

"The texts suggest that the nominee was personally talking with former classmates about Ramirez’s story in advance of the New Yorker article that made her allegation public. In one message, Yarasavage said Kavanaugh asked her to go on the record in his defense. Two other messages show communication between Kavanaugh's team and former classmates in advance of the story."

I am no lawyer, but that sounds a whole lot like witness tampering to me.

Berchem provided the following statement to NBC:

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