Posted on 09/30/2018 4:07:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A man who attended Yale University with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh went on the record on Sunday accusing Kavanaugh of "mischaracterizing" his alcohol consumption during last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Chad Ludington in an interview with The New York Times said he saw Kavanaugh "staggering from alcohol consumption" multiple times, describing him as a "belligerent and aggressive" drunk.
"It is truth that is at stake, and I believe that the ability to speak the truth, even when it does not reflect well upon oneself, is a paramount quality we seek in our nation’s most powerful judges,” Ludington said in a statement, according to the Times.
Ludington said Kavanaugh during the hearing downplayed the "degree and frequency" of his drinking. He told the Times that the FBI has asked him to share his story at the bureau's Raleigh, N.C., office on Monday.
It is unclear if his testimony will play a role in the week-long FBI investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh, the Times reported.
Several other classmates in recent days have accused Kavanaugh of misleading Congress over his alcohol consumption. Former FBI Director James Comey in a Times op-ed published Sunday charged Kavanaugh with "lying" under oath.
Kavanaugh throughout the hearing insisted that he has never blacked out or passed out due to alcohol consumption.
Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing him of assaulting her in 1982, has said that Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were intoxicated during the incident.
Kavanaugh told outside counsel Rachel Mitchell during the hearing that he has never "passed out" from drinking.
"I’ve gone to sleep," he said. "But I’ve never blacked out, that’s the allegation. And that’s, that’s wrong."
Kavanaugh appeared agitated by questions from Democratic senators about his history with partying and drinking, at one point asking Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) if she has ever blacked out due to alcohol consumption.
"I like beer,” he said in response to one of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-R.I.) questions. “Do you like beer, senator? What do you like to drink?"
He said repeatedly that he likes beer but does not drink heavily.
The FBI probe will last a week and investigate Ford's allegation as well as claims from Deborah Ramirez, who has accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself without her consent during a Yale University party in the 1980s.
Ramirez reportedly spoke to the FBI on Sunday.
It doesn’t take a “major disturbance or infraction”. He could have been found naked as a blue jay, laying in the quad, one morning, with both hands full of shaving cream. Use your imagination. Maybe a picture ended up in the student newspaper. Or maybe his buddies dragged him into the infirmary one night ‘cause they couldn’t get a response. And it is still in the infirmary records. I don’t know. But Yale isn’t on his side and my concern is they are the most likely source for “evidence” of Kavanaugh blacking-out. That would lead to a perjury charge. BTW, I am not a lawyer.
"The democrats are just insuring the biggest RED WAVE ever come midterm election day November 6th.
Let them bully beer drinkers and people who get mad for being falsely tagged a violent rapist and receiving death threats.
Blessing in disguise. 🇺🇸"
How about the dozens of documented RECENT lies by the accuser?
For example she has flow thousands of miles but the hearings had to be delayed because she was “afraid to fly”?
Sorry if LYING is proof then the accuser is documented a fraud and the vote should be held NOW,
That prove FACT Ford is a reckless habitual liar and not rumor and hearsay like the smears against Judge K
What will be the proof after all this time? I could say I saw you- or DiFi or anyone passed out drunk many times. Does not mean I would be truthful in saying it.
I so want karma to hit all these crazy dims...people really need to dig up the dirt on them and throw it at them. I wish I had some dirt on them, I would for sure be slinging it.
Oh yawn.
Let’s have the FBI check out New York Times Editors - - Reporters - - staff - - and find out how many:
Drank too much in college
OR
Used illegal drugs
OR
Picked their little noses...
Every time these fools come forward I wish someone from their past would dish the dirt on them.
That one woman did have that happen...needs to happen to all of them, especially the dims and RINOs behind all this...
You are right about the looks of the two Lisas. (Banks and Ford)
You cannot make the case that Kavanaugh is a heavy drinker who may or may not have blacked out, without making the case that, SO WAS CHRISTINE FORD.
Look at her history, she was a drunk, no other name for it.
So, Christine is just as likely to be a blithering idiot when drunk as any male in her vicinity, and just as likely to “black out” making her unable to be coherent about an incident.
Hos long have you had these feelings of paranoia?
Like Ted Kennedy who murdered a girl?
Go ahead Dems, Go there.
Since the end of day, Friday. I already mentioned that.
Seems like an awful big risk for getting caught for what? Is someone paying this guy?
If the FBI interviews him tomorrow, apparently they’ve decided to broaden the scope on their own and include his testimony in their investigation.
And the new accuser is....surprise surprise surprise...another liberal college professor....
Chad Ludington was not the first person to claim that Kavanaugh had lied about his past drinking habits. Former classmates Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher have both described Kavanaugh as being an excessive drinker in college. Swisher told the Washington Post, “I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He’d end up slurring his words, stumbling.”
Ludington also reached out to the Washington Post about Kavanaugh’s drinking. He described a situation in which he said Kavanaugh started a physical fight. “On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.”
Ludington was not the first person to claim that Kavanaugh had lied about his past drinking habits. Former classmates Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher have both described Kavanaugh as being an excessive drinker in college. Swisher told the Washington Post, “I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He’d end up slurring his words, stumbling.”
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Hmmm …… GOOD THING THEY DIDN'T HAVE CELL PHONES BACK THEN.
Brent K finished #1 in his class at Yale .
This idiot is a jealous lefty roommate no one liked. Another nutter academic . Those who can’t do teach !
Ludington was not the first person to claim that Kavanaugh had lied about his past drinking habits. Former classmates Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher have both described Kavanaugh as being an excessive drinker in college. Swisher told the Washington Post, “I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He’d end up slurring his words, stumbling.”
Ludington also reached out to the Washington Post about Kavanaugh’s drinking. He described a situation in which he said Kavanaugh started a physical fight. “On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.”
Ludington was not the first person to claim that Kavanaugh had lied about his past drinking habits. Former classmates Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher have both described Kavanaugh as being an excessive drinker in college. Swisher told the Washington Post, “I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He’d end up slurring his words, stumbling.”
Hmmm …… GOOD THING THERE WERE NO CELL PHONES BACK THEN.
Not at Yale. In high school.
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