We begin today’s roundup with Paul Blumenthal and Jennifer Bendery at The Huffington Post and their accounting of all the lies that Brett Kavanaugh apparently told under oath:
Kavanaugh lied throughout his confirmation hearing. He told big lies and easily disprovable small lies. This may not even be the first time he has lied under oath: former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) said Kavanaugh lied to him in his 2006 confirmation hearing for his current seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. [...]
It shouldn’t matter if someone who likes to drink beer or used to binge-drink to the point of blacking out goes on to have a successful career. What is at issue is that Blasey alleged that Kavanaugh was “visibly drunk” when the alleged assault took place. It’s possible Kavanaugh had drunk too much to remember the event.
Kavanaugh repeatedly stated that he has never blacked out in his life. Numerous people who knew him in college and high school said this was likely impossible, based on the number of times they saw him staggering drunk.
“Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him,” said Dr. Liz Swisher, a college friend of Kavanaugh’s. “I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He’d end up slurring his words, stumbling.”
Elana Shor at Politico details the Democratic attempts to catalog Kavanaugh’s many misleading statements:
"There really is no reason for the Democrats not to make a perjury referral to the Justice Department at this point,” said Brian Fallon, who helms the liberal judiciary-focused activist group Demand Justice. “Kavanaugh has lied about so many things, both large and small, that the Senate looks foolish to look the other way.”
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