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Yale classmate says Kavanaugh misled Congress on his drinking habits
The Hill ^ | 09/30/18 | EMILY BIRNBAUM

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.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: backtoprohibition; fakemedia; fakenews; hearsay; kavanaugh; kavanaughdrinking; ludington; nevertrumpers; newyorktimes; nyt; tds; thehill
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


61 posted on 09/30/2018 4:36:36 PM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

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!!


62 posted on 09/30/2018 4:39:15 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Bell Bouy II
That may be true but it was better for him to bring it up. He was probably emphasizing the point to acknowledge that he did go to excess occasionally. It still doesn't mean he sexually assaulted anyone.

I have abused alchy in my days but never assaulted any woman. Now, I'm a teetotaler. I have been for 43 years.

63 posted on 09/30/2018 4:39:24 PM PDT by Know et al ( Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Ludington is a professor at North Carolina State and in a major exercise in projection is apparently obsessed with alcohol. This is his faculty bio page: https://history.ncsu.edu/people/faculty_staff/ccluding

Just to give you an idea, here are his seven most recent published essays:

Published Essays

“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.

Hmm, I sense a pattern and smell a rat, or should that be RAT.
64 posted on 09/30/2018 4:39:42 PM PDT by Dahoser
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To: MayflowerMadam

Great and astute observation!


65 posted on 09/30/2018 4:40:34 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, all right! Two thumbs up for her!


66 posted on 09/30/2018 4:41:44 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: madison10

“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.


67 posted on 09/30/2018 4:43:11 PM PDT by Engedi (The)
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To: yesthatjallen

They are not going to investigate beer drinking. That has already been said.


68 posted on 09/30/2018 4:43:12 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


69 posted on 09/30/2018 4:43:18 PM PDT by FrankR (You gotta stand for something, or you'll fall for anything!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Let’s investigate Chad Luddington. (Frankly, that sounds like an alias).


70 posted on 09/30/2018 4:44:36 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Boomer One

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,


71 posted on 09/30/2018 4:44:50 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: Bell Bouy II

How did I sense that you are a naive newbie?


72 posted on 09/30/2018 4:45:02 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: dforest

Does it matter if Flake, Collins and Murkowski vote no?

That’s all that matters now.


73 posted on 09/30/2018 4:45:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Know et al

I am just thinking like the enemy, and next week starting with Morning Joe and Mika the Slut this will be the narrative.

Betcha


74 posted on 09/30/2018 4:45:23 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: Vigilanteman

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.


75 posted on 09/30/2018 4:45:24 PM PDT by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt)
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To: Dahoser

Ford and brother Ralph went to UNC.


76 posted on 09/30/2018 4:45:33 PM PDT by gcparent
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To: yesthatjallen
I'm probably nuts - but follow me:

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:

Lisa Banks

In my mind - the lady at the hearing doesn't really look the same. She looks more like:

Lisa Ford

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...

77 posted on 09/30/2018 4:47:02 PM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: Bell Bouy II
I hope he didnt step on his PP as we us’tah say in the mil

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.......

78 posted on 09/30/2018 4:47:24 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: Engedi

Sounds like FBI is going to be talking to him


well then it will be in the 302’s even if it’t not in the main report and Flake or a Rat will read it on the senate floor..even though it proves nothing


79 posted on 09/30/2018 4:47:33 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (FBI)
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To: ncalburt

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.


80 posted on 09/30/2018 4:48:02 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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