Kavanaugh’s Lied Summarized. currentaffairs.org/2018/08/why-ev…
Kavanaugh Lies
•He never attended a gathering like *this*.
•People never said it “didn’t happen.” (they said they didn’t remember being at the gathering NOT a party)
•He tries to restrict the range of possible dates to weekends (July 1 is a weekday)
•He never attended a gathering like *this*.
•People never said it “didn’t happen.” (they said they didn’t remember being at the gathering NOT a party)
•He tries to restrict the range of possible dates to weekends (July 1 is a weekday)
•He scoffs that he didn’t live near Ford’s country club (he lived closer to it than she did)
•Drinking forms a major part of all the allegations, and facts about his history with alcohol bear on the plausibility of all three...
•Drinking forms a major part of all the allegations, and facts about his history with alcohol bear on the plausibility of all three...
...yet he has rejected the entire idea of him as having been an excessive and rowdy drinker.
•If you ask someone “Were you a drinker?” and they reply “I went to church and helped children,” you are not dealing with a forthright person.
•If you ask someone “Were you a drinker?” and they reply “I went to church and helped children,” you are not dealing with a forthright person.
•He broke down in tears before the senate, he portrayed himself as not just innocent but an innocent, a man for whom drunken lechery would have been utterly unthinkable and appalling.
•He won’t even acknowledge that he drank underage
It was raised to 21 in Maryland when he was 17. (Coincidentally, it was raised on July 1, 1982, the very day Kavanaugh was knocking back a few brewskis with P.J., Squi, and Judge.)
It was raised to 21 in Maryland when he was 17. (Coincidentally, it was raised on July 1, 1982, the very day Kavanaugh was knocking back a few brewskis with P.J., Squi, and Judge.)
•Daniel Livan, who lived in Kavanaugh’s dorm:
“I definitely saw him on multiple occasions stumbling drunk where he could not have rational control over his actions or clear recollection of them… His depiction of himself is inaccurate.”
“I definitely saw him on multiple occasions stumbling drunk where he could not have rational control over his actions or clear recollection of them… His depiction of himself is inaccurate.”
•New York Times cited “nearly a dozen people” who knew Kavanaugh and confirmed he was a “heavy drinker.” Kavanaugh also hosted weekly tailgates while at Yale.
•Leahy says Is this based on you? Kavanaugh replies How cruel you are to make fun of my friend’s addiction.
•Leahy says Is this based on you? Kavanaugh replies How cruel you are to make fun of my friend’s addiction.
•Q: Was the ralphing alcohol-related? A: I went to Yale.
[One trivial footnote here is that Yale’s acceptance rate then was about four times higher than it is now, and it would have been especially easy for someone who went to Georgetown Prep.
[One trivial footnote here is that Yale’s acceptance rate then was about four times higher than it is now, and it would have been especially easy for someone who went to Georgetown Prep.
[Update: It turns out Kavanaugh’s grandfather also went to Yale, even though Kavanaugh lied and said he had “no connections” there.]
•He is asked if the ralphing pertained to drinking. He replies that he likes beer,
he did explicitly deny having blacked out...
•He is asked if the ralphing pertained to drinking. He replies that he likes beer,
he did explicitly deny having blacked out...
... but answering questions with questions like this is not what an honest witness does.
•Instead of admitting that they had been terrible to Renate, four of the football players said that the references to her in the yearbook...
•Instead of admitting that they had been terrible to Renate, four of the football players said that the references to her in the yearbook...
“were intended to allude to innocent dates or dance partners.” Kavanaugh himself blamed the dirty-minded circus media for taking a sweet tribute and construing it as something obscene:
Kavanaugh is now rather despicably trying to pose as the defender of a woman he unrepentantly humiliated.
•His I was always either at the soup kitchen or buried in my schoolbooks” defense is an act.
•His I was always either at the soup kitchen or buried in my schoolbooks” defense is an act.
•He made up a fictitious game in order to sustain his phony image as a high schooler who knew nothing about sex.
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