Several times Kavanaugh was asked about allegations regarding whether or not he ever became belligerent or aggressive when drinking.
All of his answers to these sorts of questions were prefaced with a request to look at a document, that was apparently non-public at least in the unredacted form, regarding a former college roommate. In one case, Kavanaugh specifically asked if the Senator was referring to something "specific" with the question about aggressive behavior. He followed up, again, by referring to his former roommate and an unredacted (nonpublic) document.
What does that suggest?
That suggests that there was an incident in college that involved one of his roommates, where Kavanaugh likely engaged in some sort of physical confrontation with this particular person. It would seem just as likely that this altercation took place after some drinks had been downed. Because this other person (or other people) was involved (and because there may have even been some college security report or even a police report), the name of the other party/parties as well as the specifics are likely non-public in nature.
In other words, it is highly likely that there was an official report of some sort from Kavanaugh's college days that has been discovered in back ground checks. It would also appear that this incident has been discussed in private with the Judiciary committee. Lastly, it would appear that this particular incident from his college days did not disqualify him from being a judge.
It would also suggest that the Democrats on the committee were attempting to trip up Kavanaugh, either by making him deny something he had already admitted to, or by having him reveal more than he had to regarding the incident in question.
Bottom line. If people come forward from Kavanaugh's college day and claim that they saw him act aggressive, that would not prove that he was lying. It may only be confirming an incident that the Senate Judicial committee is already well aware of.
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Kavanaugh also suggested (even in his opening statement) that he did from time to time drink more than he should and that he did things that he would later regret. Where he did hold the line during his questioning is whether or not he had a "drinking problem" of some sort (which would be a subjective opinion) and whether or not he drank to the point of "blacking out". The fact he denies being an alcoholic or blacking out is not going to be successfully refuted by the testimony of anyone.
This would be spectacularly funny if it wasn't so sad. If we are going to disqualify people from judicial positions because of the fact that they drank in high school or in college, then we probably couldn't fill the Supreme Court, not to mention appeals courts, or district courts.
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Poll: It Looks Like Claire McCaskill Shot Herself In The Foot By Opposing Kavanaugh, Especially With Women Voters
So, how has Claire fared since she announced that she’s a “no” vote on Kavanaugh? Bre Payton at The Federalist noted that not only are voters in her state less likely to vote for her come November, but fewer women are now less likely to vote for her as well:
That righteous blue wave of womenhood doesn't seem to be rising. At least in Kansas.
The fact he denies being an alcoholic or blacking out is typical behavior by an alcoholic.
You should read the Big Book about alcoholism. It's free on Amazon.
Alky alky alky rapist. You're pathetic.
Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
The lying under oath continues. Now he’s lying about knowing nothing about exposing himself to Deborah Ramirez before it became public. Turns out he talked to friends about refuting it. Looks like we can add witness tampering to perjury. Not to mention sexual assault. SCOTUS?
Roger Amick said...
The fact he denies being an alcoholic or blacking out is typical behavior by an alcoholic.
Wow, I had to recheck to make sure this wasn't written by lo iq commie.
I guess the 300 million or so adult Americans who deny being an alcoholic or blacking out must all be alcoholics. Great point and very intelligent statement, not. Shouldn't be much longer and you'll have an excuse to drown your sorrows. Maybe that's what this all about for you.
Cheers.
Now that I see your latest posting you do look like someone under the influence. Where the hell are you pulling your "facts" out of ? Did you hide your bottle and can't find it?
You should read the Big Book about alcoholism. It's free on Amazon.
Can I get a personally signed copy from you?
You got your marching orders and Seig Heil Mr. President.
Trump said he believes Kavanaugh did not lie during his Judiciary Committee testimony about the extent of his drinking in high school and college. On the other hand, Trump said, if the FBI uncovers something, "I'll take that into consideration. I have a very open mind." Trump did not elaborate.
Buy a hard copy and send it to me and I will sign it and return it for you to put on your trophy rack.
Touchdown Denver
Sorry kput'z
Well Rog...
If you are not an alcoholic and don't drink till you pass out...
How are you supposed to answer that particular question?
Say yes, so people believe you didn't?
Moreover, isn't being one of the most respected Federal Judge in the country sort of a hard task for someone who is an alcoholic?
THIS IS BEGINNING TO SMELL, ISN'T IT?
Text messages suggest Kavanaugh wanted to refute accuser's claim before it became public
3 hrs ago
WASHINGTON — In the days leading up to a public allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to a college classmate, the judge and his team were communicating behind the scenes with friends to refute the claim, according to text messages obtained by NBC News.
Kerry Berchem, who was at Yale with both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Deborah Ramirez, has tried to get those messages to the FBI for its newly reopened investigation into the matter but says she has yet to be contacted by the bureau.
The texts between Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, both friends of Kavanaugh, suggest that the nominee was personally talking with former classmates about Ramirez’s story in advance of the New Yorker article that made her allegation public. In one message, Yarasavage said Kavanaugh asked her to go on the record in his defense. Two other messages show communication between Kavanaugh's team and former classmates in advance of the story.
The texts also demonstrate that Kavanaugh and Ramirez were more socially connected than previously understood and that Ramirez was uncomfortable around Kavanaugh when they saw each other at a wedding 10 years after they graduated. Berchem's efforts also show that some potential witnesses have been unable to get important information to the FBI.
On Monday, a senior U.S. official confirmed that the White House has authorized the FBI to expand its initially limited investigation by interviewing anyone it deems necessary as long as the review is finished by the end of the week. The New York Times first reported the change in scope.
NBC News reached out to Berchem for comment after obtaining a copy of a memo she wrote about the text messages. In a statement to NBC News, Berchem, a partner in the law firm Akin Gump, said: “I understand that President Trump and the U.S. Senate have ordered an FBI investigation into certain allegations of sexual misconduct by the nominee Brett Kavanaugh. I have no direct or indirect knowledge about any of the allegations against him. However, I am in receipt of text messages from a mutual friend of both Debbie and mine that raise questions related to the allegations. I have not drawn any conclusions as to what the texts may mean or may not mean but I do believe they merit investigation by the FBI and the Senate. “
On Sunday, Berchem emailed FBI agent J.C. McDonough her memo. After getting no response, she resent the summary on Monday morning along with screenshots of certain texts that she thinks raise questions that should be investigated. “I’m sure he’s really busy and expect that he’ll get back to me,” said Berchem.
Berchem’s memo outlining her correspondence with Yarasavage shows there’s a circle of Kavanaugh friends who may have pertinent information and evidence relevant to the inquiry who may not be interviewed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already set in motion a vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination on the Senate floor for later this week.
Kavanaugh has strongly denied the allegation by Ramirez as well as accusations by Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her when the two were in high school and by Julie Swetnick that Kavanaugh engaged in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s.
Berchem, 51, a graduate of Yale and a Connecticut resident, reached out to Sen. Richard Blumenthal's office last week. Blumenthal, a Democrat, sits on the Judiciary Committee.
“We heard from Kerry late on Thursday and submitted her summary to the Judiciary Committee early Friday,” a spokeswoman for Blumenthal said in a statement to NBC News. “After we were made to jump through several hoops that delayed our moving forward, it became clear that the majority Committee staff had not turned this summary over to the FBI and, in fact, had no intention of turning it over to the FBI. With our assistance, Kerry submitted her summary to the FBI herself.”
George Hartmann, a spokesman for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said that “the texts from Ms. Berchem do not appear relevant or contradictory to Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony."
"This appears to be another last-ditch effort to derail the nomination with baseless innuendo by Democrats who have already decided to vote no," Hartmann said.
Berchem's texts with Yarasavage shed light on Kavanaugh’s personal contact with friends, including that he obtained a copy of a photograph of a small group of friends from Yale at a 1997 wedding in order to show himself smiling alongside Ramirez 10 years after they graduated. Kavanaugh was a groomsman and Ramirez a bridesmaid at the wedding.
Berchem hired a lawyer on Sunday to help her get her information into the right hands. She has twice sent her memo to the FBI and has yet to hear a response, according to her lawyer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He flagged two texts in particular.
In a series of texts prior to the publication of the New Yorker story, Yarasavage wrote that she had been in contact with “Brett's guy,” and also with “Brett,” who wanted her to go on the record to refute Ramirez.
According to Berchem, Yarasavage also told her friend that she turned over a copy of the wedding party photo to Kavanaugh, writing in a text message: “I had to send it to Brett’s team too.”
Bob Bauer, former White House counsel for President Barack Obama, said "It would be surprising, and it would certainly be highly imprudent, if at any point Judge Kavanaugh directly contacted an individual believed to have information about allegations like this. A nominee would normally have been counseled to leave to his legal and nominations team the job of following up on any questions arising from press reports or otherwise, and doing so appropriately."
Further, the texts show Kavanaugh may need to be questioned about how far back he anticipated Ramirez would air allegations against him. Berchem says, in her memo, that Kavanaugh “and/or” his friends “may have initiated an anticipatory narrative” as early as July to “conceal or discredit” Ramirez.
Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath that the first time he heard of his former Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez’s allegation that he exposed himself to her in college was in a Sept. 23 article in The New Yorker.
Kavanaugh was asked by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, when he first heard of Ramirez’s allegations. Kavanaugh answered: “In the New Yorker story.”
A September 24 text shows Yarasavage clarifying that she did not refute Ramirez’s claims to the New Yorker. Republicans and Kavanaugh have said that his former classmates, who gave an anonymous statement to the New Yorker, have refuted Ramirez’s claim.
“I didn’t say I would have known … I said she never told me, I never heard a word of this ever happening and never saw it. The media surmised (that I was saying she is lying),” said Yarasavage.
Yarasavage declined to speak to NBC News as did other classmates named in Berchem’s memo who may have information pertinent to the investigation.
Finally, Berchem is concerned about what she witnessed at the 1997 wedding where Ramirez and Kavanaugh were both in the wedding party.
The wedding took place 10 years after Ramirez and Kavanaugh graduated. According to the information Berchem provided, Ramirez tried to avoid Kavanaugh at that wedding of their two friends, Yarasavage and Kevin Genda.
Ramirez, “clung to me” at the wedding, Berchem wrote to Yarasavage in a Sept. 24th text message recalling the event. “She never went near them,” a reference to Kavanaugh and his friends. Even in the group photo, Berchem wrote, Ramirez was trying to keep away from Kavanaugh.
oh dear, oh dear
Jane's spam.
Anyone read it?.
"Touchdown Denver
Sorry kput'z"
Sorry about What?
Flake Says Probe Can’t Just Provide ‘Cover’ for GOP
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) urged the FBI to investigate all “credible” allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh, adding that he felt dismay that the Senate Judiciary Committee hadn’t been “doing due diligence” going into its Thursday hearing addressing the allegations, Politico reports.
Said Flake: “It does no good to have an investigation that gives us more cover.”
Sounds like the "pastor" is spreading more shit that he actually knows nothing about and relies on his ultra partisan websites without correcting after he is proven wrong. Just spamming and not linking. A true POS.
Guess he likes living in the sewer and attempting to destroy a good Christian family.
Truly evil.
My real father phoned tonight to let me know the following Letter to
the following letter appeared this morning in my home town newspaper.
Letter tp the editor
Wilson Times, Wilson, NC
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Confronting historical realities about Jesus
Many years ago as a youngster in Wilson, I became intensely interested in studying Jesus and began attending First Christian Church. I began delving deeply into the gospels and when I found disturbing discrepancies among them, mentors in the church and, later, Barton College, encouraged me to use good scholarship in seeking answers.
As I grew older, I felt compelled to admit that the historical study of Jesus, if honestly pursued, leads to conclusions about him which, although they are disturbing, cannot be denied: Jesus was expecting certain events to happen in his own time that simply did not take place, including the full arrival of the Kingdom of God in all its power throughout the earth. This would happen, Jesus said, in his own generation, within the lifetime of some of his apostles (Mark 1:15; 9:1; 13:30) and opponents (14:62).
All the early Christians, including Paul, were expecting this to happen soon. It did not, and that raises questions about the inerrancy of the scriptures, and even of Jesus.
In nearly six decades of preaching, I have struggled with trying to be honest about this historical reality while being true to the good news of Jesus. That is not an easy task, and I have often failed.
Thirteen years ago, I began writing “The Dead Sea Gospel,” a novel in which I attempt to accomplish in fiction what is so difficult to accomplish in preaching. It is now available on Amazon.
Historical realities about Jesus are not easy to face, for they raise questions about him that challenge and disturb both conservatives and liberals. Yet truth is truth, and honesty may bring its own rewards. For all that we lose by facing the historical realities concerning Jesus, we also stand to gain, even spiritually. And this, I hope, is made clear in my novel, which is based on some of the very best historical Jesus research now available.
Dare we look at Jesus honestly? That is the question I would raise with everyone, and I invite all, whether or not they read my novel, to go to my website at www.TheDeadSeaGospel.com and join in the discussions there.
James Boswell
Normal, Illinois
No one reads your posts stupid old man, no one cares
Yeah, what a waste of space he and his spamming are. And what a POS of a "pastor". Evil.
But I'm his daddy.
ROFLMFAO !!!
lol Don't go to my website. I bet your father would have LOVED my novel.
That last is addressed to Caliphrate.
McConnell Focuses Efforts on Three Senators
Politico:
“McConnell’s focus right now is entirely on the triumvirate of GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Jeff Flake of Arizona. McConnell needs two out of the three to back Kavanaugh in order for the nomination to succeed, and he is walking a fine line in addressing their concerns while continuing to press toward a final Senate vote.
”McConnell has subtly tweaked his language on the Kavanaugh nomination. He’s a no longer vowing to ‘plow right through’ and confirm Kavanaugh, as he was just last week, crafting his message instead to appeal to the three Republicans who remain on the fence.
”The Kentucky Republican is currently planning a move to end debate on the nomination by mid-week, forcing a critical procedural vote as early as Friday, which would set up a final vote on Kavanaugh by Sunday. But that timetable means the FBI investigation must be complete by Wednesday, and that’s where the situation become dicey for McConnell.”
Caliphrate???
I won’t visit www.pedophilesrus.com
Thanks anyway
Thank God we have a strong President who will eventually get Judge K confirmed.
Even if that means taking it directly to the voters in the midterms.
And Democrats should be scared to death about that
Scott. There is a difference between drinking a couple more beers than you should, and drinking enough to alter your behavior far beyond a mild hangover and drinking and acting aggressively towards others. His ex friend who knew him in Yale University and frequently parties with him. There is a police department report on the incident that directly involved Judge Kavanaugh.
Chad Ludington, a Yale classmate of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s who said he often drank with him, issued a statement on Sunday saying the Supreme Court nominee was not truthful about his drinking in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
Here is the full text of the statement:
I have been contacted by numerous reporters about Brett Kavanaugh and have not wanted to say anything because I had nothing to contribute about what kind of justice he would be. I knew Brett at Yale because I was a classmate and a varsity basketball player and Brett enjoyed socializing with athletes. Indeed, athletes formed the core of Brett’s social circle.
In recent days I have become deeply troubled by what has been a blatant mischaracterization by Brett himself of his drinking at Yale. When I watched Brett and his wife being interviewed on Fox News on Monday, and when I watched Brett deliver his testimony under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, I cringed. For the fact is, at Yale, and I can speak to no other times, Brett was a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker. I know, because, especially in our first two years of college, I often drank with him. On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive. On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.
I do not believe that the heavy drinking or even loutish behavior of an 18- or even 21-year-old should condemn a person for the rest of his life. I would be a hypocrite to think so. However, I have direct and repeated knowledge about his drinking and his disposition while drunk. And I do believe that Brett’s actions as a 53-year-old federal judge matter. If he lied about his past actions on national television, and more especially while speaking under oath in front of the United States Senate, I believe those lies should have consequences. 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.
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.
I felt it was my civic duty to tell of my experience while drinking with Brett, and I offer this statement to the press. I have no desire to speak further publicly, and nothing more to say to the press at this time. I will, however, take my information to the F.B.I.
Charles (Chad) Ludington
Chad Ludington’s Statement on Kavanaugh’s Drinking and Senate Testimony https://nyti.ms/2NQ9ijY
As a recovering alcoholic I can see some classic examples that his behavior and what he says, are signs of of alcoholic behavior. He lied under oath in response to questions about his actions while he was a student at Yale University.
NEW HAVEN — As an undergraduate student at Yale, Brett M. Kavanaugh was involved in an altercation at a local bar during which he was accused of throwing ice on another patron, according to a police report.
The incident, which occurred in September 1985 during Mr. Kavanaugh’s junior year, resulted in Mr. Kavanaugh and four other men being questioned by the New Haven Police Department. Mr. Kavanaugh was not arrested, but the police report stated that a 21-year-old man accused Mr. Kavanaugh of throwing ice on him “for some unknown reason.”
A witness to the fight said that Chris Dudley, a Yale basketball player who is friends with Mr. Kavanaugh, then threw a glass that hit the man in the ear, according to the police report, which was obtained by The New York Times.
The report said that the victim, Dom Cozzolino, “was bleeding from the right ear” and was treated at a hospital. A detective was notified of the incident at 1:20 a.m.
Mr. Dudley denied the accusation, according to the report. For his part, speaking to the officers, Mr. Kavanaugh did not want “to say if he threw the ice or not,” the police report said.
The report referred to the altercation, which occurred at a bar called Demery’s, as “an assault.” It did not say whether anyone was arrested, and there is no indication that charges were filed.
A police report after a bar fight in New Haven in 1985 named Brett M. Kavanaugh. Personal information has been redacted.
A police report after a bar fight in New Haven in 1985 named Brett M. Kavanaugh. Personal information has been redacted.CreditThe New York Times
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday. Mr. Dudley did not respond to phone and email messages. Reached by text message, Mr. Cozzolino declined to comment.
The outlines of the incident were first referred to in a statement issued on Sunday by Chad Ludington, one of Judge Kavanaugh’s college classmates and a member of the Yale basketball team.
“On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face,” Mr. Ludington said in the statement. Mr. Ludington, a professor at North Carolina State University, said he came forward because he believed Judge Kavanaugh had mischaracterized the extent of his drinking at Yale.
Classic examples of the alcoholic behavior.
He witnessed a bar fight.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
NEW HAVEN — As an undergraduate student at Yale, Brett M. Kavanaugh was involved in an altercation at a local bar during which he was accused of throwing ice on another patron, according to a police report.
shit.
alky, i have a confession to make. i was involved in several snowball fights in the vicinity of some local bars growing up. and on at least one occasion, an errant throw might have struck a girl *gasp* in the pussy. *GASP*.
i need you to help me understand if there's a statute of limitations for such heinous behavior, or if i should turn myself in to local authorities.
Classic examples of the alcoholic behavior.
seriously...
i think what's chapped your ass is that brett kavanaugh, while partying pretty hard on occasion, went on to actually make something of himself, and that something was and is pretty significant.
you, otoh, are basically in a frothing jealous rage over it. you're a raging alky, and he's not. he's headed to the USSC, and you drank your first liver to death. he's one of the more prominent men in america, and you're pushing a walker around your mail order bride's shithole in west compton, covina, whatever, and all of your rage is fueled by psychological projection. and opioids. can't forget the opioids.
iow's you're a fucking galactic failure on every level a human being can fail, and brett kavanaugh IS NOT.
embrace the suck that is your angry, miserable and pathetic existence alky.
and remember, when they lower your worthless ass into the ground, brett kavanaugh will be handing down opinions from the highest court in the land.
heh.
Blogger Commonsense said...
He witnessed a bar fight.
witnessed?
fucking pussy. i've actually been in a few. won some, got my ass kicked in some, and some i'd call a draw. it was a rite of passage where i grew up.
anyway, if the dems are hanging their hats on a couple of bar altercations this guy found himself in 35 years ago, cocaine mitch needs to schedule the vote for later this morning 'cause the dems at this point are just jerking off.
Yeah, this is the woman Roger is hanging his hat on.
Ex-Boyfriend says Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick threatened to kill his unborn child, 'was exaggerating everything'
The ex-boyfriend of Julie Swetnick, the third woman to make uncorroborated, lurid allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, told Fox News exclusively on Monday that she had threatened to kill his unborn child and at times even bizarrely asked him to hit her.
"Right after I broke up with her, she basically called me many times and at one point she basically said, 'You will never, ever see your unborn child alive,'" Richard Vinneccy said on "The Ingraham Angle."
According to Vinneccy, Swetnick told him at the time, 'I'm just going to go over there and kill you guys.'"
You should read the Big Book about alcoholism. It's free on Amazon.
free, eh?
well, at least they're charging exactly what it's worth. kinda like your political pontifications.
As a recovering alcoholic I can see some classic examples that his behavior and what he says, are signs of of alcoholic behavior.
alky,
the power of psychological projection does not qualify you to diagnose - or project - your failures on others.
some of us can drink and have a good time. no big deal.
others drink their liver to failure, and end up strung out on opioids requiring a walker to be ambulatory.
this julie slutnick broad looks like a real psychopath. maybe she can be avenatti's campaign manager for his 2020 run.
KERRY BERCHEM THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE
http://www.fairfielddemocrats.com/rtm-district-8-1/
the text mssg broad dug up by nbc news.
obviously neutral and non partisan towards judge kavanaugh.
You are a classic example of Trumpism stage four brain cancer.
Polycystic Liver Disease.
The classic example of the Republican party is that the last Republican Presidential candidate that got a popular vote was George H.W Bush and he appointed another sexual predator for the Supreme Court.
Now we are presented with another minority popular vote margin President appointing a sexual predator to the Supreme Court.
Text messages reveal that Brett Kavanaugh and his friends were planning on refuting Julie Swetnick before the article appeared in the New York Magazine article.
I have completely recovered.
My walker is folded up and put away.
I may take one Norco before I go to the gym for a vigorous workout.
Our neighborhood is beautiful and typically has palm trees and the house are pristine and worth far more than the racist rodent bastards dump in Buffalo New York.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Text messages reveal that Brett Kavanaugh and his friends were planning on refuting Julie Swetnick before the article appeared in the New York Magazine article.
they do? according to who? some liberal broad running for local yokel in fairfield county?
if she needs to make her chops to the voters using the kavanaugh controversy, she probably ought to stay in private practice and spare the voters from being represented by such a shallow asshole.
Here is the full text of the statement:
I have been contacted by numerous reporters about Brett Kavanaugh and have not wanted to say anything because I had nothing to contribute about what kind of justice he would be. I knew Brett at Yale because I was a classmate and a varsity basketball player and Brett enjoyed socializing with athletes. Indeed, athletes formed the core of Brett’s social circle.
In recent days I have become deeply troubled by what has been a blatant mischaracterization by Brett himself of his drinking at Yale. When I watched Brett and his wife being interviewed on Fox News on Monday, and when I watched Brett deliver his testimony under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, I cringed. For the fact is, at Yale, and I can speak to no other times, Brett was a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker. I know, because, especially in our first two years of college, I often drank with him. On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive. On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.
I do not believe that the heavy drinking or even loutish behavior of an 18- or even 21-year-old should condemn a person for the rest of his life. I would be a hypocrite to think so. However, I have direct and repeated knowledge about his drinking and his disposition while drunk. And I do believe that Brett’s actions as a 53-year-old federal judge matter. If he lied about his past actions on national television, and more especially while speaking under oath in front of the United States Senate, I believe those lies should have consequences. 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.
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.
I felt it was my civic duty to tell of my experience while drinking with Brett, and I offer this statement to the press. I have no desire to speak further publicly, and nothing more to say to the press at this time. I will, however, take my information to the F.B.I.
Charles (Chad) Ludington
https://nyti.ms/2NQ9ijY
Now we are presented with another minority popular vote margin President appointing a sexual predator to the Supreme Court.
sexual predator?
takes one to know one, eh alky rapist? i think you've been psychologically projecting on kavanaugh this whole time. during your many years of blackout drunkenness there's no telling how many women you've sexually assaulted.
kavanaugh's a good man.
you're a failure.
'nuff said.
Kavanaugh told Senate hearing he first learned of Ramirez's allegations in the New Yorker article published on September 23
Brett Kavanaugh and his team may have sent text messages to former classmates and friends prior to Deborah Ramirez's allegations of sexual misconduct being made public in order to refute her claims.
A mutual friend of Kavanaugh and Ramirez has reached out to the FBI with screenshots of text messages that suggest the Supreme Court nominee was discussing the sexual misconduct claims prior to them being published last week.
The friend, Kerry Berchem, emailed an FBI agent involved in the Kavanaugh investigation asking for them to look at the text message exchange, NBC News reports.
Berchem attended Yale with both Kavanaugh and Ramirez.
The text exchange between Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, who is another friend of Kavanaugh's, imply Kavanaugh had been personally speaking to friends about Ramirez's claims prior to them appearing in the New Yorker.
In one of the texts, which was obtained by NBC, Yarasavage said she had been in contact with 'Brett's guy' and with 'Brett' because he had asked her to defend him on the record about Ramirez's claim he exposed himself to her at a drunken party at a Yale University dormitory in the early 1980s.
Other texts suggest Kavanaugh's team had been communicating with his former Yale classmates before the story's publication.
Yarasavage also indicated to Berchem that she had sent Kavanaugh a photo of their group of Yale friends from a wedding in 1997 - a decade after the alleged sexual misconduct occurred.
FBI agents interviewed Ramirez on Sunday in which she detailed her allegation that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in the early 1980s when they were students at Yale University
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6229779/Kavanaughs-friend-sent-text-messages-FBI-investigation.html
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.
oh chad. what a feckless cunt. and what a good little liberal professor you are. and look at your fan club. an alky who drank his first liver to death and now has a cripple card hanging from his rear view mirror..
wouldn't it be ironic if the judge were to come after you and force you to spend every penny you have defending yourself against charges of slander.
sexual predator?
Would you have preferred fucking asshole????? Yeah he's another good man gone bad....LOL
I never got into a drunken fight in a bar.
I am not a sexual predator.
I have never been arrested.
I have never raped a man or woman.
Hey Roger...when has the truth ever mattered for low life's like rat hole? Or any trump sycophant who slurps around here????
Trump Directed Action to Enforce Stormy Daniels’s Hush Agreement.
President Trump personally directed an effort in February to stop Stormy Daniels from publicly describing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, people familiar with the events say.
In a phone call, Mr. Trump instructed his then-lawyer Michael Cohen to seek a restraining order against the former adult-film actress, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, through a confidential arbitration proceeding, one of the people said. Messrs. Trump and Cohen had learned shortly before that Ms. Clifford was considering giving a media interview about her alleged relationship with Mr. Trump, despite having signed an October 2016 nondisclosure agreement.
Mr. Trump told Mr. Cohen to coordinate the legal response with Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, and another outside lawyer who had represented Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization in other matters, the people said. Eric Trump, who is running the company with his brother in Mr. Trump’s absence, then tasked a Trump Organization staff attorney in California with signing off on the arbitration paperwork, these people said.
Direct involvement of the president and his son in the effort to silence Ms. Clifford hasn’t previously been reported. The accounts of that effort recently provided to The Wall Street Journal suggest that the president’s ties to his company continued into this year and contradict public statements made at the time by the Trump Organization, the White House and Mr. Cohen.
In August, Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to felony violations of election laws in connection with the payments to Ms. Clifford and a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, who also says she had an affair with Mr. Trump that he denies.
Trump Directed Action to Enforce Stormy Daniels’s Hush Agreement https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-directed-legal-action-to-enforce-stormy-danielss-hush-agreement-1538478000
The Wall Street Journal reported.
Kavanaugh told Senate hearing he first learned of Ramirez's allegations in the New Yorker article published on September 23
Brett Kavanaugh and his team may have sent text messages to former classmates and friends prior to Deborah Ramirez's allegations of sexual misconduct being made public in order to refute her claims.
"May"? "Suggested"? This means there is no smoking gun but a selective interpretation and speculation presented as fact. This is sleazy dishonest reporting of the highest order.
Dennis wp has left the site because CHT is no longer an analytical blog with a conservative leader. The leader has become a Trumpet player for Trump.
again alky
""Touchdown Denver
Sorry kput'z"
At the time of your post Denver was up 10 points in the fourth. The KC Chiefs rallied to win 27 -24.
Not that I particulary care but you're speaking for someone who has the perfect ability to speak for himself.
NBC admitted they could not confirm the story. In the past they would have never published it. But now, YEP sleazy sells.
Roger is this your version?
"I never got into a drunken fight in a bar.
I am not a sexual predator.
I have never been arrested.
I have never raped a man or woman"
KD said...
Roger is this your version?
Why are you such a douche bag.....is it the kansas polluted water or air?????
Dennis wp has left the site because CHT
And I thought he said it was because of the kansas goat fucker who knew nothing about everything????
Hope Jeff Flake is proud of the chaos he wrought. This is not saving the dignity of the court. This is not healing the divisions in the senate. It was just giving Democrats and their media allies and opportunity to throw more shit on the wall to see what will stick.
Everybody in the world but this idiot saw it coming.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I never got into a drunken fight in a bar.
I am not a sexual predator.
I have never been arrested.
I have never raped a man or woman.
says you.
you see rapist alky, thanks to feckless c*nt's like my senator kirsten gillibrand, we have dispensed with the presumption of innocence, due process, and the rule of law.
i think it's safe to assume that considering how much time you spent completely inebriated, e.g. blackout drunk, that you must have on at least a few occasions sexually assaulted a woman. i mean, come on. to you, drunk kavanaugh = sexual predator. so what's good for the judge is good for ol' roger.
see how this works now?
bill maher has his new rules? now we have the new, new rules. and if you're going to tout them, you will be subject to them.
that you've gotten away with it for this long is a testament to your good fortune. a good fortune i might add that did not extend to your God-given liver.
welcome to the drunken rapist society, alky.
Everybody in the world but this idiot saw it coming.
oh, he saw it coming. this is him grabbing some "serious and thoughtful conservative" street cred for his 2020 run.
nothing these assholes do anymore is for the people. it is entirely 100% self serving.
bring up dr. ford's name in conversation with them a year from now, and they'll have no fucking idea who you're referring to.
kirsten gillibrand's granny was erastus corning's whore for chrissakes. these fuckers have this behavior hard coded in their DNA.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/classmate-told-fbi-kavanaugh-lied-235900502.html
Another report......oh well
Hope Jeff Flake is proud of the chaos he rough
He's the only male R whose brain is working...unlike you cramps.....This is all Bretty's doing....if he didn't present such a holy roller upbringing...the events may never have been brought to light.....
Dershowitz claimed during an interview on Fox News that if a Muslim nominee were being accused of terrorism, the ACLU would jump to defend him. However, because Kavanaugh is a white man, “all the rules are called off.”
“When the shoe is on the other foot, when it’s a white man being accused by the left of sexual offenses, all the rules are called off,” Dershowitz said. “The rules of presumption of innocence, the rules of due process.”
“We know he’s guilty because he’s a white man, she’s a woman, she’s a survivor, that’s the end of the inquiry,” he concluded.
e's the only male R whose brain is working.
Well Dennis, you can have him since he's sort of working for you anyway.
Anonymous caliphate4vr said...
Dershowitz claimed during an interview on Fox News that if a Muslim nominee were being accused of terrorism, the ACLU would jump to defend him. However, because Kavanaugh is a white man, “all the rules are called off.”
i think the same rules apply is the moose-limb is running for attorney general in minnesota...
#believeallwomenaccusingrepublicans
, you can have him since he's sort of working for you anyway.
Proving again you are no conservative and just an extremist.....asshole
Keep overplaying your hand donks
Poll: Democrat Heitkamp down 10 points to GOP challenger in ND Senate race
heitkamp must be really happy with her fellow democrats right about now.
heh.
Charles C. W. CookeVerified account @charlescwcooke
The NBC story accusing Kavanaugh of perjury has been updated—without any note, or acknowledgement of that fact—and now includes a reference to the full September 25th testimony that flatly contradicts the claim being made. And yet NBC is still pushing it.
Typical FAKE NEWS tactic. Publish fake news, quietly correct it, then on to the next fake news. People are tired of this shit. Heitkamp may well be the tip of the iceberg.
Trump Directed Action to Enforce Stormy Daniels's Hush Agreement
Headline in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Fake News?
Democrats Trusted More On Three Key Issues
A new survey by Professors Peter Enns and Jonathon Schuldt at Cornell University asked likely voters which political party they trusted more to handle election security, tax reform, and the federal budget deficit.
Considering the upcoming midterm elections, the results do not bode well for Republicans. Likely voters favored Democrats on all three issues; a particularly noteworthy pattern because historically, Republicans have “owned” the issues of domestic security, taxes, and the deficit.
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Heap big trouble acoming for Repugs.
Pederast why spam the same crap that no one will read on multiple thread.
Are you just a complete asshole
lol at poor Cali-freight
DON'T go to politicalwire.com
and read the following
Forecast: Democrats have almost locked down the House
GOP midterm prospects hinge on Kavanaugh
NRA campaign spending WAY down (read why)
Democrats rebuild midwestern blue wall
Republicans stuck in the mushy middle
US global image hits new lows (under Trump)
Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality.
nah, no hack poll there.
LOL.
Ithaca NY: 10 square miles surrounded by reality.
Americans believe Christine Blasey Ford. And most also believe Brett Kavanaugh. Given this state of affairs, it’s the FBI investigation that has the most promise to settle the debate on whether Kavanaugh should be confirmed after what most voters see as a process that has degenerated into a national disgrace.
If the FBI finds no corroboration of the charges, 60 percent believe that Kavanaugh should then be confirmed, according to a weekend Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,330 registered voters.
[...]
Underlying this battle for the nomination is a political battle, and 69 percent agree with Kavanaugh’s pronouncement and Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) statement that the proceedings have been a “national disgrace.” Sen. Feinstein definitely is in the crosshairs, with 75 percent believing she should have turned over Ford’s letter months earlier so that this debacle might have been avoided. Graham has raised some serious questions about the actions of Ford’s lawyers and Feinstein’s legal referral, too.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/409167-kavanaugh-polling-fbi-on-the-hot-seat
Red-state Dems face nightmare scenario on Kavanaugh
One Democratic senator, who requested anonymity, said there’s hopeful talk within the Senate Democratic Caucus that Kavanaugh will drop out, even though he has adamantly vowed to stay.
The lawmaker said Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is urging undecided centrist Democrats to wait until three undecided Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) — make their positions known.
“He’s telling them, ‘Keep your powder dry.’ That means you don’t have to decide this — wait and see how it plays out. There’s some speculation that Kavanaugh may not last,” the lawmaker said. “They always vow to stay right until they don’t.”
A second Democratic senator said there’s widespread disbelief in the caucus that Kavanaugh is holding on.
“I just had a conversation with a colleague who said they couldn’t believe he hasn’t dropped out yet,” the second lawmaker said Monday evening. “There was a time he could have done it gracefully and could have protected the Supreme Court.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409372-red-state-dems-face-nightmare-scenario-on-kavanaugh
sorry pederast, but the good news is running in OUR FAVOR.
"Keep overplaying your hand donks
Poll: Democrat Heitkamp down 10 points to GOP challenger in ND Senate race"
She is not alone.
Senator Claire Mckaskill has gone from up 5 to down 2 since she joined other fellow travelers against. BRET.
Anyone seen Jane?
sorry pederast, but the good news is running in OUR FAVOR.
the "pastor" is stuck cut-n-pasting lies from his echo chamber while there is a real possibility, if not probability, the whole smear campaign will ensure the RBG replacement will truly be a conservative that locks in a conservative majority for decades.
And Trump is smart enough to cement this in to avoid future presidents to try and "pack" the court by adding justices.
While it is terrible what Judge K and family have gone through this smear campaign is looking like it will have similar results to the Reid 51 vote debacle. Republicans are coming out on the right side of both.
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