Classmate 1...said that he is “100% sure” that he was told at the time that Kavanaugh was the student who exposed himself to Ramirez. He independently recalled many of the same details offered by Ramirez, including that a male student encouraged Kavanaugh as he exposed himself.
Classmate 2: an assistant professor of neurosurgery at U of New Mexico (who was a member of Kavanaugh & Ramirez’s class at Yale) said Kavanaugh’s college behavior had become a topic of discussion among former Yale students soon after his nomination, including the Ramirez incident
Another classmate, an emergency-room doctor in California, recalled overhearing after the party a female student tearfully recounting to another student an incident involving a gag w/ a fake penis, followed by a male student exposing himself. (He is not certain of her identity.)
Classmate 4: Kavanaugh’s freshman year roommate said that he never witnessed Kavanaugh engage in any sexual misconduct, but did recall him being “frequently, incoherently drunk.” Is it believable that Kavanaugh was one of a “group of guys who sexually tormented Ramirez?” Yes.
Classmate 5: Another acquaintance from college, JK, similarly said that she considered the allegation plausible, adding, “Debbie’s always been a very truthful, kind—almost to the point of being selfless—individual.”
Classmate 6: knew both Kavanaugh & Ramirez. “I believe it could have happened.” Tho she wasn’t aware of Kavanaugh being involved in specific misconduct, she recalled heavy drinking was routine & Ramirez was sometimes victimized & taunted by male students in his social circle.
Classmate 7: Ramirez’s roommate. “There is no doubt in my mind that while at Yale, he was a big partier, often drank to excess, & there had to be a number of nights where he does not remember. In fact I witnessed the night he got tapped into his fraternity, & he was stumbling 1/2
...drunk, in a ridiculous costume saying really dumb things. I can almost guarantee that there’s no way that he remembers that night” 2/2
Classmate 8: [CM 7] added that she & LS, another cm who said she was shocked by his denials of heavy drinking in Fox interview, both played sports in college & routinely partied WITH Kavanaugh on Sat nights. “I studied hard. I also drank to excess many nights w/Brett Kavanaugh.”
Part II Dr. Ford’s supporting declarations submitted during Thursday’s hearing and other info reported. As I did above, I’ll identify people with initials or other indicators w/o using names, because I recognize the impact on the lives of everyone on the periphery of this story.
Declaration 1: AGM said Ford told her about the assault during a Jun 2013 meal at a restaurant in California, & she contacted Ford’s attorneys on Sep 16 to tell them Ford had confided in her five years ago.
Declaration 2: KK said Ford revealed assault to him in 2016, when the 2 parents were watching their kids play in public place & discussing Brock Turner. She expressed anger @ lenient sentence, she was bothered bc she was assaulted in high school by man who was now DC fed judge...
...Ford revealed to him in an email on Jun 29 (2 days after Kennedy announced) that the person who had assaulted her in high school was “Trump’s fav for SCOTUS.” He replied asking who and she responded “Kavanaugh”.
Declaration 3: RW, a neighbor & friend of >6 yrs, said Ford revealed the assault to her in 2017. “I was walking my dog & she was outside of her house. I stopped to speak with & she told me she had read a recent social media post about my own sexual assault. She told me when...
...she was a young teen, she had been sexually assaulted by an older teen. I remember her saying her assailant was now a federal judge.”
Declaration 4: Ford’s husband said he learned of his wife’s experience w/sexual assault “around the time we got married” but she didn’t share details until a couple’s therapy session in 2012. “I remember her saying that her attacker’s name was Brett Kavanaugh...
...he was a successful lawyer who had grown up in Christine’s home town, and that he was well-known in the Washington, D.C., community,” Russell Ford said.
Additional statements 1: Both the president of the American Bar Association, Robert Carlson, and Heather Gerken, dean of Yale Law School, from which Kavanaugh graduated, added their voices Friday to those seeking an FBI investigation of the sexual assault allegations.
Addtl statements 2: A dozen women who attended Catholic & private prep schools in Montgomery Co area in 1980s spoke to NBC News, 7 of them on record. The women — most of whom signed an open letter saying they believed Ford’s allegation, and all but 2 of whom did not know her...
... or Kavanaugh personally — shared memories of kegs, bonfires & unsupervised beach houses where heavy drinking fueled sexually inappropriate comments & behavior & attacks that were never spoken of afterward. The women said they were warned by other girls about the aggression...
...of boys from neighboring Catholic schools, particularly Georgetown Prep, which Kavanaugh attended. Raised from an early age in their Catholic community to remain chaste, they said they believed anything that compromised that chastity was their fault — even if they were forced.
Addtl statements 3: JR, who lived in a suite w/Kavanaugh Freshman year at Yale, recalled Kavanaugh “frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk.”
Addtl stmt 4: KW, who also lived in suite, corroborates JR. “There was a lot of vomit in the bathroom. No one ever cleaned it up. It was disgusting. It wasn’t incidental. It wasn’t, ‘Oh, this weekend someone puked in the bathroom.’ People were constantly puking in the bathroom.”
Addtl statements 5: LA, a retired psychiatrist in Underhill, Vermont, was a friend of KW’s at Yale. “I remember,” she says, “that you couldn’t use the bathroom because his roommates vomited all over the floor and didn’t clean it up.”
Addtl stmt 6: JG, KW’s original roommate — The fraternity brothers at Delta Kappa Epsilon (to which Kavanaugh pledged) could be heard in the streets at night chanting. “There was always more than a strong whiff of sexual violence hanging over the Dekes all the time,” he said.
Addtl stmt 7: LS, a friend of Kavanaugh’s from Yale, said, “There’s no medical way I can say that he was blacked out, but it’s not credible for him to say that he had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess.” (Read into the official record by Feinstein)
Addtl stmt 8: LB, Yale classmate, said of her memories of him, “He’s trying to paint himself as some kind of choirboy. You can’t lie your way onto the Supreme Court, and with that statement out he’s gone too far. It’s about the integrity of the institution.” She also described 1/
...both Brett Kavanaugh and Chris Dudley as blackout drunks, who liked humiliating women. She remembered a specific incident where both “were very drunk. And they thought it would be really funny to barge into a room where a guy and a girl had gone off together and... 2/
...embarrass that woman. Chris Dudley was the one who went in, under the ‘egging on’ of Brett Kavanaugh and they thought it was funny. The girl was mortified and I was furious.” /3
Addtl stmt 9: Mr. L, a prof at NC State & former Yale classmate accused Kavanaugh of “blatant mischaracterization” of his drinking in college, saying he often saw him “staggering from alcohol.” He said he frequently socialized w/Kav as a student & that he’d been untruthful when 1
...he denied possibility he’d ever blacked out. He said Kav played down “degree & frequency” of his drinking, & he‘d often become “belligerent & aggressive” while intoxicated. Says once Kavanaugh initiated a fight that led to the arrest of mutual friend. 2 nytimes.com/2018/10/01/us/…
Addtl info 10: Ford said she saw Judge once after assault, while he was working at Potomac Village Safeway. In Judge’s memoir Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk, he writes abt how he “spent a few weeks working as bag boy in a local supermarket” btwn junior & senior yr of hs, so 1982.
Addtl info 11: Chris Dudley, former NBA and Classmate at Yale said that “when Kavanaugh went out Fri nights, I was usually w/him.” CD says, like any other college kids in America, they drank, sometimes got drunk. Both Kav & CD were part of Mr L’s story about bar fight & arrest.
Addtl info 12: Kerry Berchem, a partner in law firm Akin Gump, & former Yale classmate of both Kavanaugh & Ramirez says in the days leading up to public allegation from Ramirez, the Kav & his team were communicating behind the scenes w/friends to refute her claim, according to..1
text messages demo Kavanaugh & Ramirez were more socially connected than previously understood & Ramirez was uncomfortable around Kav when they saw each other at a wedding 10 yrs after graduation. Berchem's texts w/Yarasavage shed light on Kav’s personal contact with friends. /2
