Mike Davis, who was chief counsel for Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) during the Kavanaugh nomination process, said that to the best of his knowledge, Grassley’s office has no record of Stier reaching out with his allegation.
“Even if we did receive an allegation from Mr. Stier as described by the New York Times reporting, it is difficult to see how this unsubstantiated hearsay, ‘corroborated’ by anonymous sources, involving an alleged victim who other unnamed sources said does not even remember the event, would have changed the outcome of the confirmation vote,” said Davis, who now leads the Article III Project, an advocacy group that promotes Trump’s judicial picks. You can read more here.