Senate Republican caught in his own Kavanaugh lie: Who's 'mixed up' now, Senator Hatch?

Senate Republican Orrin Hatch was fast out of the gates to pre-emptively smear Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape when they were both in high school. Ford, he said was "mixed up," and that Kavanaugh "is an honest man, said this didn't happen."

He also said that Kavanaugh "had told him that he was not present at the party in question." Which raised a lot of questions, since Ford had not specified the date or the location of the party. How could Kavanaugh so categorically deny his presence in that case? He couldn't. And now we get the back-track. Hatch's communications director tweets the correction: "Hatch was paraphrasing, never quoting, and a more accurate representation of Kavanaugh's words was that he was not at any party like the one she describes."

That's a significant difference, from Hatch declaring to CNN and others "that Kavanaugh told him that his accuser may be mistaking him for someone else—and that he wasn't even at the party in question." Not even at the party in question.

So who's mixed up now, Senator?

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