Dianne Feinstein shared it with the FBI this week.
The New Yorker published an explosive report on Friday about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, saying that a woman has accused him of trying to force himself on her when he was in high school.
The allegation was the latest development in a saga that played out on Capitol Hill all week involving a letter that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sent to the FBI but was reluctant to discuss in public.
The letter, as reported by the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, is from a woman who described an encounter with Kavanaugh at a party in high school. He held her down and tried to force himself on her, covering her mouth. She was able to escape, but the encounter was “a source of ongoing distress for her,” Farrow and Mayer wrote.
View the complete September 14 article by Li Zhou on the Vox.com website here.