City records are calling part of yesterday’s testimony into doubt… here’s how.
It’s been a wild ride in the current political circus, with more twists and turns than an M Night Shyamalan story.
The word of the week was ‘credibility’. And no less than Senator ‘lied about going to Nam’ Blumenthal raised that exact issue with Judge Kavanaugh.
The senator asked Kavanaugh if he was familiar with “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus” which is a legal principle that dictates jurors can rule a witness to be false in everything if he says one thing that is not true.
“The core of why we’re here is really, credibility,” Blumenthal said Thursday, before drilling into a variety of things Kavanaugh said throughout the hearing Thursday, pressing him on the veracity of the statements.
Credibility.
Keep that one thought in mind as we review the following testimony.
The incident Kavanaugh is being accused of first came up, we were told, in 2012.
Paul Sperry looked at that context and did a little sleuthing.
Is her claim as non-partisan as she says?
LIVE: Ford claims she's not "political" & that reason Kavanaugh first "came up in counseling" in May 2012 was that she & her husband argued over her desire to add "a second front door" to home b/c Kavanaugh had made her "claustrophobic." But there may have been something else …
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) September 27, 2018
… going on at the time. On March 26, 2012 — just weeks before Ford came out to her therapist about Kavanaugh — Jeffrey Toobin wrote a big story in The New Yorker trashing Kavanaugh & warning Romney could tap him for SC if he won the election that year:https://t.co/OoHAjzb8IW
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) September 27, 2018
BREAKING: Palo Alto bldg permit records raise questions about Ford's testimony she completed an “extensive remodel” of home in 2012 & that this was seminal event that led her down path to coming out against Kavanaugh b/c she needed to add an escape door. Permit was issued in 2008
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) September 28, 2018
she built an addition on the house that they rent out !!!!! not for safety I pulled the property tax records she even said they use for google interns been verified even shows renters that receive mail at that address
— AMLAYOGI (@AmandaMillsLA) September 28, 2018
https://twitter.com/stephengnome/status/1045521859612033024
Watch the testimony and judge for yourself:
Here’s another publication that wrote about those permits. It asserted the 2008 date, affirming one aspect of the testimony, without any suggestion that there was any problem with the discrepancy.
A building permit from the city of Palo Alto shows that Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford did, in fact, install a backdoor on her master bedroom — supporting a friend’s public assertion that she feels trapped without an exit route.
Ford’s friend Jim Gensheimer, of Saratoga, told the Wall Street Journal last week that Ford needed more than one exit door in her bedroom to feel safe.
Permits from 2008 show that Ford and her husband renovated their Eichler-style house in south Palo Alto’s Greenmeadow neighborhood to include an exit door in the master bedroom.
Source: Palo Alto DailynPost
It’s only in the context of the tweets, above that the Palo Alto story becomes, to borrow DC speak: “problematic”.
Now remember Blumenthal’s statement about lies and the credibility of witnesses and ask yourself the following question.
Do you accept her testimony as valid, or do you think she’s discredited her own testimony?
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