An article being spread online claims that “200 left-wing protestors” vandalized the home of Judge Kavanaugh causing $11,000 worth of damage.
The article appears to have originally been published by the site TrumpBetrayed.us but has since been copied onto other websites. It reads in part –
The family home of Judge Brett Kavanaugh was a scene right out of a frat party gone wrong yesterday, as over 200 left-wing protesters, many wearing masks, shouted profane slogans, waved signs, and threw calendars, bricks, and bottles at the property. Kavanaugh himself was not in the residence, as he is currently in Washington for a symposium on anger management. His wife and children vacated the premisis and are currently housed in an unknown location for their own safety.
Judge Kavanaugh is President Trump’s nomination for the US Supreme Court who – at the time of writing – is facing claims that he sexually abused Christine Blasey Ford when they were both teenagers.
The article about Judge Kavanaugh’s home being vandalised is entirely fake, and is another demonstration of readers perhaps not reading the full article before sharing. In fact the article is intended to be satirical, and was published on the well-known spoof news website TrumpBetrayed.Us which is part of the “America’s Last Line of Defense” network of spoof news websites. Such sites all carry a satirical disclaimer at the end of their webpages.
sat·ire ~ˈsaˌtī(ə)r
noun
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, OR ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
If you disagree with the definition of satire or have decided it is synonymous with “comedy,” you should really just move along.
However the story was also copied over to the website ABCNews.Live, which is another spoof news website minus the satirical disclaimer (and has nothing to do with the real ABC News) and it is this instance of the article that has been most prolifically shared online.
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The story claims that Judge Kavanaugh’s home address is 1512 Whiteman Street in Mayo Lake, Pennsylvania. However this is no such place called Mayo Lake, much less a Whiteman Street.
The image that shows graffiti sprayed on walls and a garage door comes from an article about a house that was vandalised after the chopping down of a city owned tree in Ancaster, Ontario and dates back to 2016. It has nothing to do with Judge Kavanaugh and the surrounding controversies.
It is true, however, that graffiti was found on the walls of the Winnebago County Republican headquarters in Rockford, which is believed to have been related to the on-going Kavanaugh case. You can see more on that story here.