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.
Hey I think the guy is great & getting smeared, just feel he was over zealous about his beer consumption as the dems will use what ever they can to delay this entire thing so why give them more amo.
So what that Kavanaugh liked beer, a lot, in high school and college.
He must not have consumed too much if he always made it to his first class in the morning and graduated #1 in high school, college, and maybe even at Yale law school. You don’t get selected to clerk at the SCOTUS unless you are one of the best of the best.
I’d bet her “special friend” drinks more, but I’d have to see her picture to make my “final answer”.
Whatever his consumption of beer in the past, he has been one of the most brilliant legal minds in the past couple of decades.
I think Kavanaugh knows that Sen. Whitehouse must have quite a reputation for being a drunkard.
If everyone who drinks beer at anytime is now incompetent, then the entire world would stop. Seriously, this is beyond ridiculous and yet we're taking it seriously because the media and the Dems own the conversation.
And graduate at the top of his class. the guy who says he doesn’t study all that much, stays up all night studying.
If Kavanaugh is rejected for the Supreme Court appointment, he should campaign hard to be a US Senator. According to the Judiciary Committee and all the witnesses and accusers coming forward, he has stellar qualifications for the job.
He can join McCain, Kennedy, Byrd, and Clinton in the growing Pantheon of less-than-perfect humans to acquire god-like powers without changing their core being. /s
A man would have to be falling down drunk to want to kiss those lips.
No prob not touching those lips, B4 of aft prohibition,,,
Some real lookers in that shot and I am sure they were safe in the sexual assault dept too
What’s hysterical is (being old enough) watching Leftists abandon conservative values, only to rediscover/recreate them. They’ve gone from straight laced society to free drugs/sex to nearly recreating Prohibition & chastity/marriage.
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