Thread by @rgoodlaw

Kavanaugh vs. Yale college friends, classmates (from both parties)

Excessive drinking, including to point of not recalling events?

"Kavanaugh portrayed himself in his testimony as enjoying a beer or two...but not as someone who often drank to excess during those years." 1/

“Nearly a DOZEN people who knew him well or socialized with him said Judge Kavanaugh was a heavy drinker in college. Dr. Swisher said she saw him 'very drunk' a number of times...freshmen year roommate, described his stumbling in at all hours of the night.” (NYT) 2/

Dr Swisher: “Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He’d end up slurring his words, stumbling.” "It’s not credible for him to say that he has had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess” WaPo 3/

Daniel Lavan, who lived in Kavanaugh’s dorm freshman year (the same year as Ramirez's sexual assault allegations):

“I definitely saw him on multiple occasions stumbling drunk where he could not have rational control over his actions or clear recollection of them.” 4/

James Roche, Kav's roommate (at time of Ramirez's allegation):

Kav "was a notably heavy drinker, even by the standards at the time…he became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk…I do remember Brett frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk"5/

Lynne Brookes (a Republican) interviewed about Kavanaugh's testimony:

Judge Kavanaugh “grossly misrepresented and mischaracterized his drinking.”

“He frequently drank to excess,” she said. “I know because I frequently drank to excess with him.” 6/

Those statements, including several on record by Kav's college friends, roommate, dorm mate, cover college. What about high school?

NYT: "Multiple high school classmates, in interviews, described Judge Kavanaugh as a heavy and frequent drinker." (NYT) Plus Mark Judge memoir. 7/7

New: Yale suitemate—year of Ramirez incident—Kit Winter:

Kavanaugh’s saying he "never drank so much that he didn’t remember…Having witnessed the level of drunkenness of Brett and his crew in that dorm and the vomitous aftermath in the bathroom, I find that very hard to believe"

New: Prof Charles Ludington, Kavanaugh friend at Yale:

"When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive…I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark…by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail"

Prof Ludington has now provided a Statement to NYT:

“I can unequivocally say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking, and in downplaying the degree and frequency of his drinking, Brett has not told the truth.”

Full text:
nytimes.com/2018/09/30/us/…

Adding the new NYT revelations contradicting Kavanaugh testimony:

"Four Georgetown Prep classmates said they saw Judge Kavanaugh and his friends partake in binge-drinking rituals many weekends in which other partygoers saw them inebriated, even having difficulty standing.”