Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax / Facebook
The Washington Post reported for the
first time the details of the sexual assault allegation against Virginia Lt.
Gov. Justin Fairfax, disputing some of the claims in the Democrat's denial.
Fairfax's office issued a forceful denial early Monday morning after a
California woman posted on Facebook that she had been sexually assaulted at the
2004 Democratic National Convention by a man who fit his description.
"The person reported to be making this false
allegation first approached the Washington Post—one of the nations most
prominent newspapers—more than a year ago, around the time of the Lieutenant
Governor’s historic inauguration," his office said in a statement.
"The Post carefully investigated the claim for
several months. After being presented with facts consistent with the Lieutenant
Governor's denial of the allegation, the absence of any evidence corroborating
the allegation, and significant red flags and inconsistencies within the
allegation, the Post made the considered decision not to publish the
story," the statement said.
The Post confirmed some details of that denial, reporting that
the woman approached the paper in November 2017 and that ultimately they could
find no corroboration of her claim that Fairfax forced her to perform oral sex
on him.
But the Post also could not corroborate
Fairfax's version of events or discredit the allegation as he claimed.
"The Post did not find ‘significant red flags and
inconsistencies within the allegations,' as the Fairfax statement incorrectly
said," the paper noted.
Fairfax is next in line to be governor should beleaguered
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D.) choose to resign. Multiple high profile
Democrats have demanded Northam's resignation after it emerged his medical
school yearbook contained a picture of two men wearing blackface and a Ku Klux Klan outfit.
After initially
apologizing and admitting he was one of men, Northam now denies he was in the
photo.
Alex is a staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon. He
graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. Before joining the Free
Beacon, he was a writer for Mediaite and The Daily Caller. He is originally
from Buffalo, New York, but regrettably now lives in Washington, D.C.
