A former Yale University classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s has described him as ‘a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker’.
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 at Yale.
Ludington, who said in a statement that he was Kavanaugh’s friend at Yale and sometimes drank with him, went on the record after hearing Kavanaugh’s testimony during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
In addition to being a ‘frequent’ and ‘heavy drinker’, Ludington said Kavanaugh was often ‘belligerent and aggressive’ when drunk.
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’
He added that on many occasions he heard Kavanaugh slur his words and saw him stagger from alcohol consumption.
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.
FBI agents have asked him to meet at the bureau’s Raleigh office on Monday, the New York Times reports.
During the hearing on Thursday, Kavanaugh insisted that he had never blacked out from drinking alcohol.
His chief accuser, Dr Christine Blasey Ford, has claimed that Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were intoxicated when he allegedly sexually assaulted her.
Ford, a California university professor, detailed her claims during the hearing that Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a party in 1982 when the two were still high school teenagers.
His chief accuser, Dr Christine Blasey Ford, has claimed that Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were intoxicated when he allegedly sexually assaulted her
It comes as Deborah Ramirez, who was the second woman to come forward with allegations against Kavanaugh from their time at Yale University, spoke to FBI agents on Sunday as part of their investigation.
In her interview with agents, Ramirez detailed her allegation that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in the early 1980s.
Deborah Ramirez, who was the second woman to come forward with allegations against Kavanaugh from their time at Yale University, spoke to FBI agents on Sunday as part of their investigation
A person familiar with the matter who couldn’t discuss the confidential investigation publicly said Ramirez also provided the agents with names of others who she said could corroborate her account.
Ramirez alleges that Kavanaugh exposed his penis to her during a drunken party at a Yale University dormitory when they were undergraduates.
Kavanaugh has denied both Ford’s and Ramirez’s allegations.
Trump bowed to pressure from moderate Senate Republicans and ordered the FBI investigation after the hearing.
The announcement by Ramirez’s lawyer indicates that the FBI probe of Kavanaugh will look beyond separate allegations of attempted rape leveled against the conservative federal appeals court judge by Ford at a dramatic Senate hearing this week.
On Saturday, NBC News reported that the White House had constrained the FBI investigation by limiting its parameters. Trump denied that story, tweeting that ‘Actually, I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion.’
White House spokesman Raj Shah said the Senate had set the ‘scope and duration’ of the FBI probe, which is supposed to be wrapped up in a week. ‘The White House is letting the FBI agents do what they are trained to do,’ Shah said.
Michael Avenatti, the attorney for a third Kavanaugh accuser, Julie Swetnick, said in an email to Reuters that his client has not been contacted by investigators.
During the hearing on Thursday, Kavanaugh insisted that he had never blacked out from drinking alcohol