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.
Is this the third roommate that was odd man out? If so, his allegations have already been addressed in regard to his extreme dislike of the third roommate.
These evil assholes play for the kill!! Stupid stupid republicans!! I’m so angry! Give the demonRATS an inch and they’ll take a whole freakin highway!! They are experts in 3D chess!! If God doesn’t reveal Himself soon, this nation is in big big doodoo!!
I have abused alchy in my days but never assaulted any woman. Now, I'm a teetotaler. I have been for 43 years.
Just to give you an idea, here are his seven most recent published essays:
Published EssaysHmm, I sense a pattern and smell a rat, or should that be RAT.“United Kingdom: Taxes, Prejudices, and a Volatile Love of Wine,” in Kym Anderson and Vicente Pinilla, eds., Wine’s Evolving Globalization: Comparative Histories of the Old and New Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
“The Politics of Wine in Eighteenth-Century England,” History Today 63:7 (July 2013), cover and 42-48.
“Drinking for Approval: Wine and the British Court from George III to Victoria and Albert,” in Danielle de Vooght, ed., Royal Taste (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 57-86.
“‘Claret is the Liquor for boys: Port for Men’: How Port Became the Englishman’s Wine, c. 1750-1800,” Journal of British Studies 48:2 (April, 2009), 364-90.
“To the king o’er the water”: Scottishness and claret, c. 1660-1763,” in Mack Holt, ed., Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History (Oxford: Berg Press, 2006), 164-84.
“‘Be sometimes to your country true’: The politics of wine in England, 1660-1714,” in Adam Smyth, ed., A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Early Modern England (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), 89-106.
“A good and most particular taste: The consumption and meaning of luxury claret in early-eighteenth century England, 1702-1730s” in A. Lynn Martin and Barbara Santich, eds., Culinary History (Brompton: East Street, 2004), 77-86.
Great and astute observation!
Well, all right! Two thumbs up for her!
“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.”
Sounds like FBI is going to be talking to him.
They are not going to investigate beer drinking. That has already been said.
That’s OK...Kav admitted he drank beer; he admitted falling asleep when he was high.
He told them he STILL drinks beer, and even that he “LIKES BEER”.
So, other than the media trying to beat a broken drum, what has this got to do with anything?
Must be getting hot over in the dems corner.
Let’s investigate Chad Luddington. (Frankly, that sounds like an alias).
No but word on Twitter is James Roche & Kit Winter (Yale roommates) both want to talk to FBI about his drinking. I knew it!! This is their next smear tactic to delay and if FBI refuses, they’ll scream.
The RATs will stop at nothing,
How did I sense that you are a naive newbie?
Does it matter if Flake, Collins and Murkowski vote no?
That’s all that matters now.
I am just thinking like the enemy, and next week starting with Morning Joe and Mika the Slut this will be the narrative.
Betcha
And there we get to the nub of the matter!
What the Dems are doing is playing off the old stereotype of drunkard Irish Catholic.
Ford and brother Ralph went to UNC.
This YouTube video asks the question of who the lady was behind and to the left of Christine Ford at the hearing:
Lisa Banks Is the Woman Sitting Behind Christine Ford
She has been identified as attorney Lisa Banks:
In my mind - the lady at the hearing doesn't really look the same. She looks more like:
Notice the hair and the cheekbones.
Why is this interesting?
Because Lisa Ford and Chad Ludington both work in the history department at Harvard.
Again, I'm probably wrong - but I throw it out there...
As we use to say in the mil, newbies need to keep their mouths shut and observe the adults.........
U ain't gonna last long newb.......
Sounds like FBI is going to be talking to him
Left wing media types that write this are probably the ones that never got invited to the fun parties and they are getting their revenge. Same with that Maizie woman. Probably never got invited anywhere cause no one liked her.
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