Twice-failed presidential candidate and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton tweeted yet another warning about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh Thursday, claiming he called birth control “abortion-inducing drugs.”
I want to be sure we're all clear about something that Brett Kavanaugh said in his confirmation hearings last week. He referred to birth-control pills as "abortion-inducing drugs." That set off a lot of alarm bells for me, and it should for you, too.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 12, 2018
There's just one problem with this: multiple fact-checkers, including Politifact and The Washington Post, have rated that claim “false.” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) faced widespread criticism for deceptively editing Kavanaugh’s comment to make it sound like he was calling birth control “abortion-inducing drugs” when it was very clear that he was simply summarizing a plaintiff’s position.
Hillary Clinton was criticized for her claims by many Washington Post journalists who wondered why she tweeted something so demonstrably false.
6 days later? And after this has been thoroughly debunked by fact-checkers!?https://t.co/UKOandLEBThttps://t.co/BC2E1agvPy https://t.co/XYVPToWGkS
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) September 12, 2018
This claim received Four Pinocchios yesterday. No excuse to repeat it today, @HillaryClinton https://t.co/gCJG1bFGuf https://t.co/dfkOvKnJ7v
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 12, 2018
The @washingtonpost fact checked this and it’s pretty clear Kavanaugh was referring to the plaintiff’s arguments in the case when he said that phrase https://t.co/Wf632bn8tL https://t.co/lh4RBnGY8I
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 12, 2018
Clinton has been very vocal on Twitter in opposition to Kavanaugh, recently saying that “of course” he would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Sen. Orrin Hatch’s (R-UT) office posited one reason Clinton may have missed all those fact checks.
Maybe the fact checks she missed were in Wisconsin. https://t.co/FDYXYOzzBR
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) September 12, 2018