Josh Marshall: @joshtpm: "Even before this came up, Brett...

Josh Marshall: @joshtpm: "Even before this came up, Brett Kavanaugh seems to lie a lot. The stuff with the Manny Miranda hacking scandal is what really stood out to me. Aside from denying the central accusations, he���s even more obviously lying about the ���Renate alumni��� stuff...

...His claim there is transparent b---s---. It���s obvious he and his crew had some sort of slut shaming thing with this then-girl. He lies so routinely that it really extinguishes whatever small doubt I might have that Ford���s accusation could be wrong or that the incident was somehow remembered radically differently vy the two people. He just seems to lie routinely. That sounds like a jaundiced take. But I think it���s really hard to deny. And that means that his flat denials of these incidents are meaningless...

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