Lawyer finds accusations against Keith Ellison unsubstantiated, refers case to local police

  While the Democrats have been using unsubstantiated claims to derail the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court one of their own has been undergoing an investigation on charges he severely beat his girlfriend. 

  I am talking about Keith Ellison, who is a co-chair of the Democratic National Committee and is currently running for Attorney General of Minnesota. The Democrats hired a lawyer to look into the claims and today that lawyer has concluded that the claims are ‘unsubstantiated’ because she failed to provide proof, and with the fix being in is confidently referring the case to local law enforcement. Here is more:

An ex-girlfriend’s allegation that Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison once physically abused her could not be substantiated because she refused to provide video she said she had of the incident, an attorney with links to the state’s Democratic party who was hired to investigate the claims concluded in a draft report obtained by The Associated Press.

The party launched an investigation after Karen Monahan alleged in August that the Democratic congressman dragged her off a bed by her feet while screaming obscenities at her in 2016. Ellison, also a deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has denied the accusation.

Monahan said she had video footage of the incident and leveled the allegation just days before a crowded Democratic primary for Minnesota attorney general that Ellison went on to win. But she declined to turn over the video during the investigation conducted by attorney Susan Ellingstad, a partner at the same Minnesota law firm as Charlie Nauen, the top lawyer for Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.

Here is part of what the lawyer said:

“An allegation standing alone is not necessarily sufficient to conclude that conduct occurred, particularly where the accusing party declines to produce supporting evidence that she herself asserts exists,” Ellingstad wrote.

  I find that comment coming from a Democratic lawyer to be very interesting, don’t you? Especially in light with what we are seeing with Brett Kavanaugh. According to this lawyer just because somebody says something happened does not mean it did happen, especially when you offer no proof it happened.

  That of course is exactly the opposite of what the Democrats and the #MeToo movement have been saying in the case of Brett Kavanaugh and others. In those cases the women always deserve to be believed and it is up to the men to prove they are innocent. Even if the only so-called evidence is some second front door you supposedly had installed 30 odd years later to protect yourself.

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