Another classmate comes forward to refute Kavanaugh Senate testimony: 'It is truth that is at stake'

Another of Brett Kavanaugh's former classmates has come forward to dispute–in harsh terms–Kavanaugh's testimony to the Senate last week. Charles Ludington told media outlets that he would be delivering a written statement to the FBI on Monday:

When I watched Brett and his wife being interviews 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.

Ludington calls Kavanaugh's Senate testimony a "blatant mischaracterization" of his drinking.

The question is important not just because lying in Senate testimony is a crime, but because Dr. Ford's testimony described Kavanaugh as being both extremely drunk and aggressive during the sexual assault she says happened at a small high school drinking party, while Kavanaugh repeatedly asserted that he has never become impaired enough to forget his actions or become aggressive. That numerous of his fellow classmates have come forward to say that they directly witnessed just such behavior from Kavanaugh gives further credence to Dr. Ford's testimony–and highlights the dishonesty in Kavanaugh's would-be defense.