Indeed, around midnight Tuesday, CNN posted a story quoting a man named Patrick J. Smyth, a former high school classmate of Kavanaugh's who said he had been cited by Ford as having been at the party where she was allegedly attacked. "I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as 'PJ' who supposedly was present at the party she described in her statements to the Washington Post," Smyth wrote in a letter to the Senate committee, according to CNN. "I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh."
A Navy sailor was killed Monday afternoon aboard the USS George H. W. Bush off the East Coast of the United States, service officials said Tuesday. The officials described the death aboard the aircraft carrier as "a mishap" on the ship's flight deck. The Bush was at sea conducting carrier qualification training after it had departed from Norfolk, Va., last week ahead of Hurricane Florence's landfall. No other individuals were injured in the incident, and officials said an investigation has been launched. They declined to provide additional details Tuesday about the incident. read more
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But do Kavanaugh's inaccurate statements rise to the level of perjury? Did he commit a federal crime? I put the question to several legal scholars, and the reply I received was generally: "no."
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Evidence does not agree with your statement, Bored. There have been false claims made by CNN that have been reported by other sources and apologized for by CNN.
Trump administration coverage
On June 26, 2017, three network investigative journalists; Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Haris, resigned from CNN over a false story, later retracted, that connected Anthony Scaramucci to a $10 billion Russian investment fund. The network apologized to Scaramucci and stated that the online story did not meet their editorial standards.[24]
The Washington Post again fact-checked a CNN report regarding Trump on December 8, 2017: CNN ran a story that claimed two sources told the network that the Trump campaign received an email that gave Trump and his son Don, Jr., early access to WikiLeaks documents on September 4, 2016. CNN had not obtained the supposed September 4 email. The sender was "Michael J. Erickson", who CNN was not able to contact. The Washington Post, however, did obtain the email, which showed that the email was actually sent on the day after the hacked documents were released by WikiLeaks on September 14, 2016.[25] CNN issued a correction of their story.
The network also imposed new rules on Russia related stories being published to social, video, editorial, or MoneyStream without going through the chain of command within CNN.[26]
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Would someone please point out the lie in Trump Jr's Statement? Hell, can you tell me what part is even false?
@DonaldJTrumpJr
It's a shame that CNN's ratings are down 41%. What's worse is there's a simple solution that they refuse to accept. Stop Lying to try to make @realDonaldTrump look bad. www.breitbart.com ...
It's really classy that Anderson Cooper (AC) claims, falsely, that Trump Jr called this Florence. Unless he did so somewhere else? Because there's no evidence of it in that tweet.
At around 1 minute in that video:
Cooper: "Donnie Jr was claiming that it showed me in Florence faking the depths of floodwaters to somehow harm his father"
Does anyone actually have any evidence of Donnie Jr claiming that the picture depicted AC in Florence? All I see is Anderson Cooper making a false claim...the true definition of irony in an article about a lie that never was.
lie
1.an intentionally false statement.
used with reference to a situation involving deception or founded on a mistaken impression.
Jr's statement almost meets that defintion...and it would if Donnie Jr. had referenced a situation founded on a mistaken impression. Trump Jr never referenced or even insinuated that AC was at the Florence flood, that was all AC's doing after the fact.
So, AC was telling a lie (falsely claiming that Donnie Jr had done something he didn't) in order to shut down Trump Jr's non-lie.
Outstanding. Good find, Corky.
Patrick J. Smyth, a former high school classmate of Kavanaugh's who said he had been cited by Ford as having been at the party where she was allegedly attacked. "I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as 'PJ' who supposedly was present at the party she described in her statements to the Washington Post," Smyth wrote in a letter to the Senate committee, according to CNN. "I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh."
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Another of the people who Dr Ford has named at being at that party has no memory of it.
Meh, looks like a lack of names in the 2nd article caused me to conflate 2 people. Sorry Taowarrior.
#261 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2018-09-19 10:21 PM
We bicker a lot, but I hope the best for her and you.
Also, don't go reading the Ralph Nader thread for a while.
Just trust me on this one.