Fox News' Geraldo Rivera invents curious 'tie goes to the nominee' standard

Geraldo Rivera.
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Some people think Brett Kavanaugh was telling the truth during his Thursday Senate hearing. Others believe his accuser Christine Blasey Ford. For those who can't decide, Fox News' Geraldo Rivera has a solution.

On Thursday, Ford emotionally relayed a story to the Senate Judiciary Committee accusing the Supreme Court nominee of sexually assaulting her. Kavanaugh vehemently denied her story to the committee just hours later. And Rivera thinks they "both were speaking their truth," he said in a Friday tweet.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.