New York Times Reporter Who Trashed Kavanaugh Now Says He Would ‘Do Things Differently’

A New York Times reporter who, without evidence, implicated a friend of Brett Kavanaugh’s in the salacious and unsubstantiated allegations against the Supreme Court justice now says he would have done “things differently.”

New York Times investigative reporter David Enrich reportedly told Mark Judge – a childhood friend of Kavanaugh’s whom Enrich implicated in wrongdoing – that he had “learned some lessons” from reporting the Kavanaugh allegations.

“I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my role in the Kavanaugh coverage, and I would be happy to talk to you about it at some point. For now, I will just say that I have learned some lessons and would probably do certain things differently next time,” Enrich reportedly told Judge, who wrote about the exchange in an article for Chronicles Magazine.

Judge told Fox News Digital that he “got the most unexpected response I ever could’ve imagined, which was the New York Times reporter who tried to ruin my life, sounded contrite.”

Judge told the outlet that he believes The New York Times was given “totally bogus” allegations from disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti, who represented one of Kavanaugh’s false accusers, and other people. One of the most salacious and unbelievable claims during the Kavanaugh accusations was that he and Judge drugged and gang-raped high school girls, a claim that has no evidence to support it whatsoever.

Christine Blasey Ford, who jumpstarted the smear against Kavanaugh by claiming, without evidence, that he sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, also claimed Judge was at the party where the alleged assault happened. Judge – and every other person Ford claimed could back her claims – said they either don’t remember or never witnessed anything that would suggest Ford was telling the truth.

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Judge told Fox News that Enrich and reporter Kate Kelly attempted to prove the outrageous claims by digging up dirt from his high school years.

Judge also told the outlet that the false allegations against him by reporters had damaged his mental health and that he even contemplated suicide. He said he told Enrich about this, saying the reporting had caused a “terrible amount of damage and distress to my family” and “blew apart decades-long friendships.” Judge said that Enrich seemed to offer sympathy, telling Judge: “I can’t imagine what it was like for you to go through that.”

“For years, my friends at Georgetown and I have been saying, ‘if only there was somebody with a conscience at the New York Times or Washington Post, if only one of them would come forward and admit what they did here, and I think we’ve just gotten it. I think we might’ve found that one person with a conscience in David Enrich. I don’t want people to badmouth him, I want to encourage him,” Judge told Fox News.