As a Kavanaugh partisian (just getting that out there) I would like to know if that drinking has continued into adult age? Or are we r still talking about college boy stuff?
He's on record as saying "I liked beer. I still like beer" so I think we can safely assume he is not a reformed drunk.
The most recent allegation of sexual assault while drinking (that I know of) was in 1998. That's 16 years after the first allegation, and he was already a judge.
But by most accounts, Kavanaugh has mostly turned his life around from his days of getting lit, starting bar fights, and making the Devil's Triangles with unconscious freshman girls. Presumably he treats his wife and daughters with more respect than he previously showed Christine Ford, Julie Swetnick, Deborah Ramirez, or Renate Dolphin.
In
today's news, it looks like Kavanaugh tried the equivalent of witness tampering by calling some of his old friends about the penis-in-face episode
before the story broke on September 23rd, and then lied under oath when he said he first heard of the accusation when the press broke the story. Brett, don't you know that people can save your text messages and then give them to the FBI? Why do you insist on lying about things that are so easily disproven?
Agreed that any lying if it actually happened is bad, not sure he actually lied tho
Oh he definitely lied. According to his own calendar, he lied under oath about ever attending any social events with Ford and the other people she reports were there (see the July 1st entry). According to his classmates he lied under oath about the yearbook mentions of ralphing at beach weak being about spicy food, not alcohol consumption. He lied about the character "Bart O'Kavanaugh" in Judge's book being about someone else, not him. He lied when he said witnesses refuted Ford's testimony, when in fact they said they did not remember this specific party. He lied under oath about the timing of his accusations, which seems ridiculous because they were all made publicly, and about Feinstein's handling of the information, which appears to be in accordance with the victim's wishes. He lied under oath about the proximity of his school to Ford's school and the country club, facts easily established with any map of Bethesda. And now we've learned that he lied under oath about not having any memory of the time he shoved his exposed penis in a woman's face, thinking it was a joke, causing her to inadvertently touch it as she tried to escape his floppy dong. (edit: I do not know for a fact that his dong was floppy at the time.)
And in part because he has so obviously lied about so many of these things, it sure looks like he lied about sexually assaulting Christine Ford. If he wanted us to think his denials credible, he probably shouldn't have lied so much about everything else.
The man can't seem to tell the truth about anything, for some unknown reason. I mean if you're going to lie about stuff, maybe try to pick stuff that some rando on the internet can't refute with two minutes on google maps, or that witnesses can't easily disprove with text messages, or about obvious stuff like "I never drank too much in high school" which 13 separate witnesses from high school and college have now contradicted. (edit: Donald Trump, man of unimpeachable personal integrity and a beacon of honesty himself, has volunteered to be a character witness for Brett Kavanaugh, saying he
never lied.)
The fact that this liar is even still on anyone's short list of judicial nominees for any position is somewhat amazing. Why should any defendant who goes before him ever feel compelled to tell the truth under oath after what Kavanaugh has done on national tv? And yet here we are, about to put him on the Supreme Court, without even reading the FBI report about these lies.