He said no! Trump suggests he hasn’t done drugs either saying ‘I never tried anything else’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that he’d never done drugs – adding to a claim that he’d ‘never had a beer’ as a youth or as an adult.

Trump told a reporter asking about Brett Kavanaugh’s heavy, under-age drinking: ‘I don’t drink. I’ve never had a drink. I don’t drink beer. I’ve never had a beer. And I’m not saying good or bad, some people like it. I just chose not to do that for a lot of reasons.

‘I remember my college days, everybody was drinking. It was like normal. I was abnormal. It was totally normal. Everybody was drinking and they used to drink a lot of beer and there was nothing wrong,’ he said on the South Lawn of the White House. ‘I just didn’t choose to do that, but almost everybody else did so. I don’t see anything wrong.’

Asked if he’d ever tried ‘anything else’ in his lifetime, Trump replied: ‘No. I never tried anything else.’   

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that he’d never done drugs – adding to a claim that he’d ‘never had a beer’ as a youth or as an adult 

Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate last week he likes beer but said he never drank to the point of passing out. Trump said he was surprised by the admission but doesn't hold it against him

Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate last week he likes beer but said he never drank to the point of passing out. Trump said he was surprised by the admission but doesn’t hold it against him

During the hearing on Thursday, Kavanaugh insisted that he had never blacked out from drinking alcohol. He is pictured on left at his Yale graduation

In conceding that his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had ‘difficulty’ with drinking as a young man, the president acknowledged Monday during a press conference that he had problems relating, because he doesn’t drink and never has.

‘I watched him. I was surprised at how vocal he was about the fact that he likes beer and that he has a little bit of difficulty. He talked about things that happened when he drinks,’ Trump said.  

Still, the president defended his Supreme Court nominee, whose confirmation is in limbo after Republican Sen. Jeff Flake joined Democrats in pushing for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh. 

Trump said that regular, underage intoxication doesn’t doesn’t preclude someone from becoming a productive adult.

‘I graduated from high school and while I did not drink I saw a lot of people drinking. They’d drink beer, and they’d go crazy, and they were in high school,’ he said. ‘They were 15, 16 years old and I saw a lot of it. Does that mean they can’t do something they want to do in their life?’ he asked.

Christine Blasey Ford charges that Kavanaugh’s drinking went further than that.

She says he pinned her to a bed during a high school party in the 1980s, tried to rip her clothes off and covered her mouth when she screamed for help.

Kavanaugh denies her allegation and two others from women who say they crossed paths with him in his youth. He also rejected claims from former classmates that he was a ‘black-out drunk’ who might not even remember that he engaged in inappropriate conduct.

Trump argued Monday that no recent accusations have been made against Kavanaugh when it comes to his alleged behavior, and that’s what reporters should be pointing out.

‘I watched that hearing, and I watched that man say he had difficulty as a young man with drink. The one question [they] didn’t ask was how about the last 20 years. Have you had difficulty in the last 20 years? Because nobody said anything bad about him,’ he said. 

The president said that Kavanaugh had been truthful about his youth. ‘This is not a man who says that he is perfect with respect to alcohol,’ he said.

Trump’s own aversion to alcohol is well-documented.  His brother Fred Trump Jr. was an alcoholic and died in 1981 at the age of 43.

His position on drugs is less stark. He has never clearly answered the question that has plagued past presidents, including Barack Obama – who wrote about his dope-smoking friends, known as the ‘Choom Gang,’ in a 1995 book.

Trump said Monday that he’s never had a drink and joked ‘can you imagine’ what ‘a mess I’d be’ if he had indulged as he presented a new trade deal.

‘I’m not a drinker. I can honestly say I’ve never had a beer in my life. It’s one of my only good traits. I don’t drink. Whenever they’re looking for something I say ‘I’ve never had a glass of alcohol. I’ver never had alcohol for whatever reason’ Can you image if I had what a mess I’d be? I’d be the world’s worst. But I never drank,’ he said.

But he said he doesn’t judge people who drank in high school. 

‘I really believe he was very strong on the fact he drank a lot,’ he said of Kavanaugh.

 In October, Trump, in a rare moment of introspection, talked about the lessons he learned from his brother Fred, who he called a ‘great guy’ but acknowledged his problem with alcohol.

The president recalled how Fred would frequently tell him ‘don’t drink’ and ‘don’t smoke.’ And he said he listened because he respected his brother.

‘And to this day I’ve never had a drink, and I have no longing for it. I have no interest in it,’ Trump said at the time. ‘To this day, I’ve never had a cigarette.’ 

President Trump's brother, Fred Trump Jr.

President Trump’s brother, Fred Trump Jr.

On Monday, the president dismissed a suggestion Kavanaugh may have lied to senators about the extent of his alcohol use.

Some Democrats have expressed concern the FBI – in their investigation into sexual allegations against Kavanaugh – are reportedly not talking to high school and college classmates, some of whom have said Kavanaugh drank to excess.

In his committee testimony, Kavanaugh said ‘I like beer’ but said he never drank to the point of blacking out. 

‘Sometimes I had too many beers. I liked beer. I still like beer. But I never drank beer to the point of blacking out, and I never sexually assaulted anyone,’ Kavanaugh said on Thursday.

Democrats are concerned investigators will not examine Kavanaugh’s drinking habits.  

Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota expressed concern some people who knew Kavanaugh when he was at Yale University would not be interviewed about their recollections of him drinking.

‘You have these other people from parts of his life who have said that he was belligerent when he was drunk and other things. Now, they have not been interviewed by the FBI,’ she said on CNN on Sunday. 

Klobuchar, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, specifically asked Kavanaugh on Thursday about his drinking, including if he had ever drunk so much he ‘didn’t remember what happened the night before or part of what happened.’ 

‘You’re asking about blackout. I don’t know, have you?’ Kavanaugh responded.

‘Could you answer the question, judge?’ Klobuchar said.

She told CNN she was ‘stunned’ at his behavior.

‘I was really stunned by how he acted at that hearing. This is basically a job interview for the highest court of the land,’ Klobuchar said. 

Trump dismissed the senators’ concerns about what Kavanaugh may have done or not done while he was in school. 

Klobuchar reacted to Kavanaugh's behavior during his testimony in a CNN interview Sunday

Klobuchar reacted to Kavanaugh’s behavior during his testimony in a CNN interview Sunday

Charles 'Chad' Ludington

Brett Kavanaugh

Charles ‘Chad’ Ludington, who said he was Brett Kavanaugh’s friend at Yale and sometimes drank with him, has described him as ‘a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker’

Senator Amy Klobuchar has said she was 'really stunned' by the way Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh conducted himself when he testified in front of her and the rest of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday

The Minnesota Democrat is pictured as she listened to Kavanaugh's emotional testimony

Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar has said she was ‘really stunned’ by the way Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh conducted himself when he testified in front of her and the rest of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday

‘Nobody asked him what happened in the last 25,30 years during his professional career because there were no bad reports,’ he said on Monday in the Rose Garden a the White House.

He added: ‘Take a look at a judge who has lived an exemplary life. And you go back to high school because he had beer. I think the judge has been pretty amazing about describing his situation with alcohol and with beer.’  

Additionally, a former Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh’s described him as ‘a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker’ at college.

Charles ‘Chad’ Ludington, who now teaches at North Carolina State University, said on Sunday that he is ‘deeply troubled’ by what he claims is a blatant mischaracterization by Kavanaugh of his drinking.

Ludington, who said in a statement that he was Kavanaugh’s friend at Yale and used to drink with him, accused the Supreme Court nominee of being untruthful in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the extent of his drinking in college.

In addition to being a ‘frequent’ and ‘heavy drinker’, Ludington said Kavanaugh was often ‘belligerent and aggressive’ when drunk. 

‘On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer,’ he said.

‘When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive.’ 

Ludington said he plans to speak to the FBI because he believes Kavanaugh downplayed the ‘degree and frequency’ of his drinking during the Senate hearing. 

‘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,’ he said. 

Trump said on Monday the FBI could question whomever they deemed necessary

‘Let the Senate decide – whatever they want to do is fine,’ he said. ‘And the FBI. I think the FBI should do whatever they have to do to get to an answer.’ 

‘I want them to do a very comprehensive investigation – whatever that means according to the senators,’ he added.

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