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Richard Blumenthal: “That op-ed piece is a pretty obvious effort to clean up the debacle of his testimony to the judiciary committee a week…”

On the recordOctober 3, 2018
That op-ed piece is a pretty obvious effort to clean up the debacle of his testimony to the judiciary committee a week ago. And that testimony was really profoundly revealing. Almost like taking the mask off the judge and showing the real person. And what he did this that testimony was show someone who was angry, vengeful, self-pitying, and threatening.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Richard Blumenthal critiques Kavanaugh's op-ed as an attempt to mitigate the negative impression left by his earlier testimony, emphasizing Kavanaugh's perceived anger and unfitness for the Supreme Court.

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