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Some Of The Lies Brett Kavanaugh Told
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sun- day that if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath, his nomina- tion is over.
“Oh, yes,” Flake told CBS News’ Scott Pelley.
Well, Senator? Do we have some news for you! Ka- vanaugh 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 Ka- vanaugh lied to him in his 2006 confirmation hearing for his current seat on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit.
So, Sen. Flake, we now present to you all the lies Ka- vanaugh told in last week’s hearing — at least all the ones we can prove.
Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations are ‘refuted’
A key point made by Ka- vanaugh throughout his de- fense was that Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations were “refuted” by three con-
BRETT KAVANAUGH
temporaries alleged to have been at the party where she said he sexually assaulted her. Those alleged attendees said, under penalty of perjury, that the event did not take place, Kavanaugh argued.
“Dr. Ford’s allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted by the very people she says were there, including by a longtime friend of hers,” Kavanaugh said.
“The evidence is not cor- roborated at the time,” he said at another time. “The wit- nesses who were there say that it didn’t happen.”
But none of the alleged party attendees ― Mark
CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD
Judge, Leland Keyser and P.J. Smyth ― ever refuted anything Blasey claimed. They simply said they could not recall attending such a get- together.
“I have no memory of this alleged incident,” Judge said.
“I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the al- legations of improper con- duct,” Smyth said.
Keyser said that she has “no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where [Kavanaugh] was present, with, or without Dr. Ford.” She added that while she can’t remember the event from 36
years ago, she believes Blasey’s allegations. She re- iterated this after Ka- vanaugh’s misleading testimony.
Blasey explained that there was no reason for them to remember the party. “It was not one of their more notori- ous parties because nothing remarkable happened to them that evening,” she said.
‘Never attended a gather- ing’ like the one described by Blasey
“I never attended a gath- ering like the one Dr. Ford describes in her allegation,” Kavanaugh said.
But according to Ka- vanaugh’s calendars from the summer of 1982, which he submitted as evidence in his defense, he did.
As he said himself, “The calendars show a few weekday gatherings at friends’ houses after a workout or just to meet up and have some beers.” He says that he never attended a gathering like this, but that’s obviously false because the type of gathering he said he did attend is exactly the kind she described.
“None of those gatherings included the group of people that Dr. Ford has identified,” he also said.
On July 1, Kavanaugh wrote that he planned to go “to Timmy’s for skis w/Judge, Tom, PJ, Bernie, Squi.” “Skis” are “brewskis,” a popu- lar slang term for canned or bottled beer in the early 1980s.
So he gathered for brew-skis
with two of the three people Blasey said she remembers being there. Small gathering? Beer? Judge, Brett and P.J.? Check, check and check.
Brett Kavanaugh’s own calendar shows that Chris- tine Blasey Ford’s story checks out.
Blasey and Kavanaugh ‘did not travel in the same so- cial circles’
“She attended an inde- pendent private school named Holton-Arms, and she was a year behind me,” Kavanaugh said. “She and I did not travel in the same social circles.”
In that July 1 calendar entry about drinking “skis” with friends, he lists “Squi,” the nickname for his high school classmate Chris Gar- rett. Blasey testified that she briefly “went out with” Gar- rett in the summer of 1982.
Kavanaugh also admitted in a separate Sept. 17 commit- tee interview that he was friends with Holton-Arms girls. “I would imagine that there were Holton-Arms girls [at parties] on occasion, and I was friends with a couple,” he said.
‘I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out’
“I drank beer with my friends,” Kavanaugh yelled in his opening statement. “Al- most everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Some- times others did. I liked beer. I still like beer. But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out, and I never sexu- ally assaulted anyone.”
Senate Set To Begin Reviewing FBI Report On Kavanaugh
Washington - Members o f the Senate on Thursday begin to reviewing the supplemental FBI back- ground file for Brett Ka- vanaugh as the White House says the additional interviews from the FBI show no corrob- oration of allegations against the embattled Supreme Court nominee.
The results of the investiga- tion could have a critical effect on whether key swing votes in the Senate decide to advance Kavanaugh to the high court after a protracted confirmation process following allegations of sexual assault.
A White House official told CNN on Thursday that they found the report shows no cor- roboration of the allegations of sexual misconduct made against Kavanaugh in recent weeks. According to the offi-
cial, nine people were inter- viewed by the FBI for the in- vestigation.
The FBI, however, is not tasked with drawing conclu- sions, and only provided the White House with summaries of the interviews they con- ducted. The most consequen- tial conclusions will be made by four key swing votes on Ka- vanaugh's nomination: Re- publican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine and Demo- cratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
The file was delivered to the committee in a sealed box at 2:30 a.m. ET, according to a committee source, who also told CNN that it was placed in a vault that already holds Ka- vanaugh's six other back- ground investigation reports.
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