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By Aaron C. Davis, Emma Brown and Joe Heim
September 25 at 11:39 PM
On Monday night, Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh said in a nationally televised interview that in his younger years, he was focused on sports, academics and service projects. But it was his comments about drinking that rankled some Yale University classmates, prompting them to speak out for the first time.
Liz Swisher, who described herself as a friend of Kavanaugh in college, said she was shocked that in an interview focused largely on his high school years and allegations of sexual misconduct he strongly denied drinking to the point of blacking out.
Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. Hed end up slurring his words, stumbling, said Swisher, a Democrat and chief of the gynecologic oncology division at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Theres no medical way I can say that he was blacked out. . . . But its not credible for him to say that he has had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess.
Lynne Brookes, who like Swisher was a college roommate of one of the two women now accusing Kavanaugh of misconduct, said the nominees comments on Fox did not match the classmate she remembered.
Hes trying to paint himself as some kind of choir boy, said Brookes, a Republican and former pharmaceutical executive who recalled an encounter with a drunken Kavanaugh at a fraternity event. You cant lie your way onto the Supreme Court, and with that statement out, hes gone too far. Its about the integrity of that institution.
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Former blackout drunk, sexual assaulter and now total liar. redumbliCONS always provide the worst of the worst political candidates and judges for office.
Paladin
(28,257 posts)....showing Kavanaugh in all his sloppy drunk, molesting non-glory.
major debacle
(508 posts)You can with a Republican majority in the Senate.
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Supreme Court
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know, because I drank with him: Kavanaughs choir boy claims rankle former Yale classmates. By @emmersbrown @byaaroncdavis @JoeHeim
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BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)For the GOP, that "integrity" train left the gate a long time ago. All they want is to install activist judges (i.e., what their RW mouthpieces insist Democrats only do) to overturn every ruling that was designed to bring fairness and justice to ALL, rather than for the sole benefit and whims of their elite, straight, land-owning women-hating, race-baiting, gay-bashing, xenophobic white men.