Brett Kavanaugh now admits “he drank too much” and “was not perfect” in High School.
That’s a far cry from the choirboy image he painted about his teen years during his interview on Trump-friendly Fox News last week, where he repeatedly emphasized that he was focused on “academics and athletics, and going to church.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee has released Kavanaugh’s prepared testimony that he will deliver at tomorrow’s hearing.
“I drank beer with my friends, usually on weekends. Sometimes I had too many. In retrospect, I said and did things in high school that make me cringe now,” Kavanaugh, President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee, will tell the committee.
Kavanaugh and his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, were preparing today to testify in an extraordinary hearing tomorrow with the Supreme Court’s future in the balance. But around them a whirlwind of new accusations, new evidence, charges and countercharges were engulfing the confirmation process.
A second accuser, Deborah Ramirez, claims Kavanaugh exposed himself without her consent during a gathering at Yale University in the early 1980s.
A new accuser, Julie Swetnick, stepped forward with perhaps the most explosive charges yet, aided by Michael Avenatti, the firebrand lawyer who already represents a pornographic film actress going after the president.
The Senate Judiciary Committee also released handwritten calendar notations from Kavanaugh’s high school days that laid out the party-hopping lifestyle of a pampered prep schooler.
In a statement released by the White House, Kavanaugh said there was no truth to the claim.
“This is ridiculous and from the ‘Twilight Zone,’” he said. “I don’t know who this is and this never happened.”