An eight-minute clip showing the many times Brett Kavanaugh perjured himself in the past couple of weeks was posted by Media Matters on Wednesday. The video highlights Brett Kavanaugh, under sworn oath, lying to the Senate Judicial Committee again and again.
“I think he picked out names of friends of ours to throw them in as kind of close to what -- for characters in the book.”
The title page of Judge’s book claims that the book is “based on actual experiences.”
- Kavanaugh lied to Sen. Mazie Hirono’s face when he said that he got into Yale Law School with “no connections there.” His grandfather went there, making Brett a legacy student. It doesn’t mean he didn’t work hard, but pretending your grandfather didn’t attend Yale as an undergrad is pathological.
- During his statement to the committee, Kavanaugh repeatedly stated, falsely, that letters from students that Kavanaugh supplied to the committee refuted Dr. Christine B. Ford’s testimony. That was not true. However, there have been numerous people willing to publicly refute Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony.
- During Sen. Klobuchar’s very memorable questioning of Kavanaugh’s alleged heavy-drinking days in college, Kavanaugh’s ridiculously defensive responses were lies. Did (or does) Brett Kavanaugh have a drinking problem? It’s not for me to say, but he definitely drank a lot by almost every account that has come out.
- Kavanaugh said that 18 was the legal drinking age in Maryland when he was a senior in high school. It was not.
- During Kavanaugh’s statement, he said that the the party* that Ford was talking about would have happened on the weekend, because of work. By all accounts, Kavanaugh and his friends didn’t abstain from partying during their summertime weeks.
- Kavanaugh claimed that the reference to “Renate Alumnus” on his yearbook page was not a sexually suggestive one. He was full of shit.
- Kavanaugh’s ludicrous assertions, under oath, that the terms “boofing,” “FFFFF,” and “the Devil’s Triangle” were entirely innocuous, and at worst farting, making fun of a stuttering friend, and playing a drinking game, were lies. Big obvious lies.
- Saying that he was “known to have a weak stomach,” which is why he was known for “ralphing,” a lot. Not because he drank so much he would throw up. Everybody I know knows that’s a lie.
- Kavanaugh claimed that he didn’t really know Ford, she didn’t hang in his circle of friends, even though she “went out with” one of his best friends at the time—someone who appeared in about half of the notations in his summer calendar.
- When asked about what he knew of allegations against his former mentor, the disgraced sexual harasser Judge Alex Kozinski, Kavanaugh claimed ignorance of everything.
The difference between how many times Kavanaugh either lied, told untruths, or misled in his testimony is in stark contrast to the times Dr. Ford seems to have not misled or evaded.
*It was a small get-together, not a party.
