NBC News wrote a hit piece yesterday to make it look like Kavanaugh perjured himself over the Ramirez accusations. And in order to do it, they had to leave out key details that would have derailed piece – which is exactly what they did.

AG_Conservative debunked the article on Twitter yesterday and Senator Orrin Hatch picked up on it, as you see below:

This idea that Kavanaugh perjured himself while discussing when he first heard of the Ramirez accusations printed in the New Yorker is media-manufactured nonsense. Helpful thread—> https://t.co/P5X654qIPh — Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) October 2, 2018

Here’s the full thread debunking the hit piece:







I just got home and see a DM about a new breaking story from NBC that supposedly makes Kavanaugh look bad. I see every reporter in my timeline tweeting it so I decide to check it out.



Here is the story: https://t.co/I0TdI9aFnn — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

The story suggests that based on second-hand texts between two people who know Kavanaugh, he was seeking evidence to exonerate himself from an allegation from Debbie Ramirez.



Again, no evidence he is asking anyone to lie or do anything wrong. Just exonerate him. — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

That's weird. Doesn't seem that bad for Kavanaugh so there must be a catch, right



Well the whole story is framed to make it look shady that he wants to exonerate himself before the accusation went public. — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

The catch is the ending where they essentially accuse Kavanaugh of perjury.



Wow. Really seems from that like they got him lying about when he heard the allegation, right? pic.twitter.com/KaJjH4tf8g — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

Take note that they omit most of the actual transcript. All their evidence simply shows that someone in his group seemed to know Ramirez was trying to accuse him of something. Here is the relevant part of the interview Kavanaugh did:



Note: "Incident matching this description" pic.twitter.com/YlBdRMEjma — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

What NBC omits? Ramirez had been calling mutual friends for weeks looking for dirt on him. That's how we know that she had admitted she wasn't even sure it was Kavanaugh.



Here is Kavanaugh later in the same interview with the committee: pic.twitter.com/ex4Dsww8R0 — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

In other words, Kavanaugh had already heard and testified in the very same interview that Ramirez was calling around looking for dirt on him. He didn't know the specific allegation, but he had every reason to try to pre-empt something from her. — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

How does NBC print that article without acknowledging that the very same testimony they are citing included him mentioning he had heard about her having some accusation against him for weeks? Which explains why he was trying to pre-empt her accusation... — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

Pure and intentional dishonesty.



And now a bunch of new people will run around baselessly yelling that he committed perjury because our media has no standards. — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

I think I have been debunking at least 3-4 stories a day from the press since the Kavanaugh stuff started. Why do I have to do that? Why can't people count on mainstream outlets to honestly present the facts themselves?



And no other reporter could check and call them out? — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

To make it simple for people: Nothing in the story shows Kavanaugh discussed or heard discussion about an incident matching the description. He clearly had heard that Ramirez was looking to accuse him of something and openly said so, which led to him trying to refute her. — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2018

P.s. A few other people have pointed out that an even more egregious omission in the NBC story is that Kavanaugh was actually quoted in the New Yorker story. Which means they had to ask him about the allegation before publishing. — (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 2, 2018

As I mentioned yesterday, this is now the game to derail Kavanaugh’s nomination. Everything else they’ve tried has failed, so now they are trying to say he perjured himself and thus disqualified himself from being on the bench.

And the media clearly has no problem helping the Democrats do this, as you see in both this sloppy hit piece and others…

This NYTimes “news” article is co-written by ⁦@emilybazelon⁩, an anti-Kavanaugh activist who announced her opposition to his nomination back in July, declaring that he would be a “fifth vote for a hard right turn” on the court. https://t.co/VeAHEBTdeS — Brit Hume (@brithume) October 2, 2018

.@nytimes not even trying to hide anymore its membership in media wing of Democratic Party, allows “reporter” @emilybazelon to write about Judge Kavanaugh even though she announced her opposition to him in July on ideological grounds. Total disgrace. https://t.co/iuculCCuKI — Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) October 2, 2018



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