Only took him a day to come up with that excuse. I hope the confused deer-in-the-headlights look he had on his face yesterday when asked the question for the first time makes it’s rounds today, because there is very obviously something Kavanaugh doesn’t want to tell the committee…if he were an honest judge, he would either recuse himself from any Trump/Russia related suits or would do the more honorabe thing and withdraw his nomination from being on the SC all together.
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“I’ve never given anyone any hints, forecasts, previews, winks…”
“In fact, I charged a pretty high price, if you know what I’m sayin’, Orrin.”
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Good catch. A judge like Kavanaugh doesn’t use words like that in a clearly well-planned response without them meaning something.
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And that’s why they call it an “escape Hatch”…
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There was nothing “” bizarre” about that line of questioning. Any trial lawyer can tell you exactly what that line of questioning foreshadows.
It’s not the weasel words that are significant. It is the fact that, given overnight to interrogate him and formulate a carefully scripted answer for him, they chose to make him unavailable to deny that a conversation occurred by testifying to a lack of recollection.
And to lay it out for the laymen, Harris signaled that she has a witness and/or she has a recording (possibly in the broad legal sense that includes a memo written after the fact recounting the conversation). Signaled as in the fired off a bunch of flares underneath a flashing red light. Kavanaugh was nonplussed and signaled evasion with his body language (note the increase in his blink rate) because he could read that sign as clearly as any lawyer.
After being debriefed, his handlers determined that the best they could do was position him in a way that will let him say “my recollection of that conversation is very different.”
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I believe Kamala is thinking not in the confirmation, but in the impeachment, she knows he what he did and he lied when given a chance to set things straight.
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Of course he is believable!
He just lied about many many other things.
He just lied at 2 other hearings.
All under oath.
So, of course he is telling the truth now…
Apparently, Kavanaugh lies as much a Trump … and that’s a lot
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“I don’t recall any conversations of that kind with anyone at that law firm. I didn’t know everyone who might work at that law firm, but I — I don’t recall any conversations of that kind,” Kavanaugh said in response to Hatch’s followup. “I haven’t had any inappropriate conversations about that investigation with anyone. I’ve never given anyone any hints, forecasts, previews, winks, nothing about my view as a judge or how I would rule as a judge on that or anything related to that.”
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Sounds like Brett Kavanagh has been consulting with Kasowitz, Giuliani, Iwanka, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya and others. I would not be surprised if Brett was asked by the Preshitident and pledged loyalty to Preshitident Skanky-Manslut and the Trump Organization.
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oh, it’ll be revisited before then
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Tierney Sneed’s calling the line of questioning by Senator Harris is the ONLY part of this I think of as bizarre. What the living F!!! R U ON, Sneed!
It’s not in the LEAST bizarre to ask a nominee of the Rat F***ing party to admit or not to phone contract in this context with the nominating POTUS’ own PERSONAL lawyer’s law firm, when a MAJOR POINT of this exercise is to determine whether THIS nom has pledged PERSONAL “loyalty” to the person serving as POTUS.
Sahme on you, Teirney Sneed. And shame on TPM and Josh Marshall if this utterly inappropriate term isn’t removed and apologized for.
Perhaps it’s that they are both beholden to cash from Russian oligarchs. The NRA spent a lot of money -$30 million by some estimates - on the 2016 election. How much of that came from Ruskies? Maybe Orin and others got their little piece of the pie and are now fearful of exposure if they don’t toe the line.
I also find it interesting that he requested a list of the law firm’s employees. Somehow I doubt he’s been talking with the summer interns or low level associates. Someone in his own circle has been talking and he wants to know who.
Can’t decide if this is a Big Lebowski reference.