NY Times Reporters Say Kavanaugh Asked Them To Lie In Exchange For An Interview

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

09/18/2019 11:08 pm ET

Reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly said that Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed to speak to them as long as they publicly said he declined the interview.

By Carla Herreria

New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly said that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed to let them interview him for their upcoming book ― as long as they would publicly lie about it.

Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington on Wednesday, Kelly and Pogrebin said that Kavanaugh said he would talk to the reporters to provide them with background information as long as they falsely noted in the book that he declined to be interviewed.

Reporters from The Atlantic and The Washingtonian shared the Times reporters’ revelation on Twitter.

The Times reporters said their talks about setting up an interview with Kavanaugh took place when the book was in its final stages.

Kelly and Pogrebin said they couldn’t agree to the justice’s terms, so they couldn’t conduct the interview.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-times-reporters-kavanaugh-lie-interview_n_5d82da62e4b0849d47233e56

[sprinkleeninow]

1. Talented lyin' liars.... eom

[C_U_L8R]

2. A vain and crooked judge

This abomination needs to resign

[dawg day]

3. I LIKE BEER!

Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court. He's an abuser, a liar, and apparently a drunk. Oh, yeah, he also might have a gambling problem, and someone might have paid off his debts before he became a nominee.

This is exactly the sort of person Trump would nominate.

[Scarsdale]

14. IF Roberts had a tiny

bit of integrity, he would appeal to Kavanaugh to resign. The reputation of the SC has steadily gone down the tubes since Thomas was installed. Kavanaugh is a typical gop choice, like the president, bottom of the barrel. Who trusts this court now? EVERYONE knows which side they will agree with - always. We have a substandard president, and a substandard SC. The gop has not one single person with character and prestige in any office of government. Every single one of them has questionable character, morals and ethics.

[dawg day]

19. And the GOPers that might once have been thought to have some ethics-

prove themselves unethical every day they don't protest Trump's behavior.

[EveHammond13]

4. my head is exploding. wtf

[EveHammond13]

5. so he wants to provide "his side (lies)" while shutting down any women trying to talk

while looking like he didn't talk

[RockRaven]

6. cue the GOPers' "it's not illegal to lie to the media or public" defense

standard protocol for them...

[crazytown]

7. He was asking to be interviewed off the record?

Um ... so what?

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. No, he wanted them to actively state he declined an interview

so that he could say "everyone knows I wasn't the person who gave them this info, since I declined to be interviewed". "Off the record" would just be them saying "sources said ...", and they'd then decline to name who the sources were. He'd then be one of many people with the access to the info that might have given it to them. Rather then them saying "we're not saying who talked to us", he wanted them to lie "Kavanaugh didn't talk to us".

[madaboutharry]

8. Kavanaugh is a lowlife.

All of his education and privilege can’t change that.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. He is nothing more

He is nothing more than gutter or pond scum..........

[MasonDreams]

11. His education and privilege trained him to be a lowlife.

The law and ethics are different subjects. The basis of law is to create and protect private property. Women (thru marriage), Slaves, and Land were property and the law protected the owners "right" to rape and destroy them.

The times they just ain't a'changing fast enough.

Especially when we allow repukes to drag us back into the "good old days". When assualt was boys being boys, marriage was love, honor, and OBEY, and there was no EPA at all

[Skittles]

10. and this guy is a Supreme Court JUDGE???

[eShirl]

12. it's a thugocracy

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. People who ask others to lie for them are people who lie frequently. . . . nt

[dalton99a]

18. Effortlessly and without hesitation.

A scumbag just like Trump

[Stuart G]

16. Thanks for posting this...K and R...Very important...

[dalton99a]

17. So we have a rapist and a liar on the Supreme Court. The best the Federalist Society can offer

[hughee99]

20. The problem with shooting one's credibility in the foot

Is that the next story is looked at with a lot more skepticism.

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Such Integrity.

Drunk don’t count booking!

[Blue Owl]

22. He's the best the pathetic GOP could come up with

What a fucking shitshow...