Brett Kavanaugh, the facts and the fudgeDid Brett M. Kavanaugh tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in his Senate hearings over the years? We assembled a...
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | | | | | The truth behind the rhetoric | | | | | | Brett Kavanaugh, the facts and the fudge Did Brett M. Kavanaugh tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in his Senate hearings over the years? We assembled a truth-guide to 14 statements he made under oath from 2004 to the present. Opponents of his Supreme Court nomination have trotted out a long list of statements that they say prove Kavanaugh lied or misled the Senate on issues from abortion to warrantless wiretapping to the torture of detainees post-9/11 and his work on judicial nominations as a White House lawyer for President George W. Bush. But in several cases, the problems with his testimony are nothing-burgers or exaggerations. In other cases, we have serious doubts about Kavanaugh's answers under oath. By our count, of the 14 statements we analyzed, seven were misleading, three were on the fence, and four were not problematic. We took a look at Kavanaugh's testimony on some key policy issues and at his responses to the allegations of sexual assault brought by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez. As the Senate prepares to vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, this truth-guide should come in handy for readers who want to quickly get up to speed. |  | | Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this e-mail was forwarded to you, sign up here for the weekly newsletter. Hear something fact-checkable? Send it here, we'll check it out. | | A doozy of falsehoods in anti-Muslim campaign ad "Ammar Campa-Najjar is working to infiltrate Congress. He's used three different names to hide his family's ties to terrorism. His grandfather masterminded the Munich Olympic massacre. His father said they deserved to die. ... 'He is being supported by CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood.' 'This is a well-orchestrated plan.' Ammar Campa-Najjar: A risk we can't ignore." Everything in the paragraph above is false, misleading or unsubstantiated. Yet TV viewers in the San Diego area are hearing it on a loop because it's an attack ad from Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr. (R-Calif.). That's the same congressman who has been indicted for misusing more than $250,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses such as tequila shots for a bachelor party and tickets to SeaWorld. Campa-Najjar, the Democrat running to unseat Hunter, is not even Muslim — he's a Christian born and raised in San Diego. He's not using three different names. His grandfather did have a key role planning the Munich attacks, but was not the mastermind, and more importantly, Campa-Najjar never knew him. Campa-Najjar also was estranged from his father for much of his youth, and there's no record his father ever said the Munich victims deserved to die. Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood has donated to or expressed support for Campa-Najjar's campaign. The "well-orchestrated plan" footage used in the ad is taken completely out of context. Hunter's super-false Islamophobic ad got Four Pinocchios. | | | Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. — Salvador Rizzo | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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