Thread by @paulkrugman

The morning after: really depressing to see "she said, he said" headlines. She said; he lied. Not about what happened 35 years ago; he lied about recent events and provable facts about his past. The Times editorial doesn't even get at all of them 1/ nyti.ms/2NIYXWW

He lied about what others who may have been at the party said; aside from Mark Judge, none of them "refuted" Ford's account.

He lied about Judge, who did not submit an affidavit that could subject him to perjury charges, just a non-binding letter from his lawyer. 2/

He lied about what "boofed" and "devil's triangle" mean -- leading someone on Capitol Hill to try to edit Wikipedia after the fact.

He lied about whether he watched Ford's testimony on TV, claiming he didn't when reporters saw him doing just that. 3/

All of these are lies about the present; but he also clearly lied about the past, Ford aside.

He lied about what "Renate alumni" meant.

He clearly lied about his past drinking behavior: many former classmates say that he was a heavy drinker. 4/

Kavanaugh's defenders have urged us to ignore what he may have done once upon a time, and focus on the man he is now. That's a bad criterion -- but even if you do that, the man he is now is a pathological liar, about matters great and small 5/

And what about his righteous anger? My God: we've all seen Donald Trump in action, lying with abandon about even trivial things, then bursting into volcanic anger when called on his lies. Kavanaugh is clearly cut from the same cloth 6/

Of course, so are others. It will be horrifying if Kavanaugh become a Supreme Court justice; but it's already horrifying that Lindsey Graham is a U.S. senator 7/