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. I knew Brett at Yale because I was a classmate and a varsity basketball player and Brett enjoyed socializing with athletes. 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. On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer.

Source: New York Times October 01, 2018 01:52 UTC