We need a thorough, deep dive into the four-year-old allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh if we’re ever to get to the bottom of what “boof” means. It would also be nice to know if the guy who voted to wrest reproductive rights away from every American with a womb is a concupiscent churl and serial sexual assaulter. But first things first.
Unfortunately, we were never going to get to the bottom of anything during the Trump administration—other than a yawning abyss of fathomless, numbing despair. But in the summer of 2018, after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford brought forth sexual assault allegations that were echoed by other women who also knew Kavanaugh, Donald Trump ordered a supplemental investigation of his nominee in order to provide cover for Republican senators who were going to vote to confirm him no matter what.
And the FBI didn’t find out much of anything! Go figure.
The reason? They didn’t really look.