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1. Partisans are quick to attack Max Stier, claiming that because he was on Bill Clinton’s defense team his observations of Kavanaugh’s misconduct can’t be believed. Guess who else was on the Clinton defense team? Emmet Flood - one of Trump’s defense attorneys!
2. Let’s discuss: partisans love to ruin people for sport & relish trashing reputations to score even petty political points. But their claims often crumble under even casual scrutiny. As has been reported recently, Max Stier witnessed sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh when . . .
3. they attended Yale together. Stier runs a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that promotes excellence and efficiency in government service. Stier was very reluctant to come forward with what he had witnessed for fear that it would inspire false, partisan attacks. Ultimately,
4. he was persuaded to come forward (as reported in the @washingtonpost). And boy did the attacks come. A former counsel to Sen Grassley, Mike Davis, attacks Stier as “having a political axe to grind.” Davis’ proof of Stier’s bias? While an attorney/associate with a firm called
5. Williams and Connelly, Stier was assigned to work as part of the team defending then-President Bill Clinton. Using that as the standard, Emmet Flood must be an anti-Trump hack because when he was at Williams and Connolly Flood also worked on Clinton’s defense team.
6. Judging the credibility of an attorney by whether they represent a client with an R or a D after their name is dead wrong. Doing so is nothing more than the same old politics of personal destruction fought by small, petty partisans.
