Kavanaugh Classmate: ‘I Don’t Think Many Of His Answers Were Credible’

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“I don’t think many of his answers were credible,” Liz Swisher, a former classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s at Yale, said in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Friday. She was referring to Kavanaugh’s testimony Thursday to the Senate Judiciary Committee. “There’s no problem with drinking beer in college. The problem is lying about it,” Swisher added.

“There’s no medical way I can say that he was blacked out,” Swisher previously told the Washington Post after Kavanaugh denied ever blacking out in an interview with Fox News. “But it’s not credible for him to say that he has had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess.”

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  1. His answers weren’t credible.

    If any attorney behaved in his court the way he behaved Thursday, Kavanaugh would have thrown the book at him/her.

    He thinks he doesn’t deserve this.

    Well, neither did the women who are stepping forward.

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    The man who hounded Bill Clinton like his personal Inspector Javert has more than a few kegs in his own closet. This is quite the karmic comeuppance.

  3. No shit.
    I wasn’t a Kavanaugh classmate and even I know many of his answers were in fact lies.

  4. I had friends on my freshman dorm floor at an ivy league school (not Yale) rushing DKE in 1986, it is not credible that anyone w/o vast drinking experience would even rush DKE, never mind survive the process without even vaster drinking experience. Just admit it, why is that so hard. He’s catholic not baptist anyway.

    ps-> there were kids on my dorm floor using all the terminology from his yearbook, so who exactly does he think he’s fooling by lying about that if the language is widely distributed up and down the east coast???

    pps-> out of curiosity I googled the chapter of DKE my dorm-mates rushed, it is reforming after a 5 year ban to purge the culture; they had a 2 year ban to maintain continuity but violated probation and got the boom lowered.

  5. Reposting this, fwiw. I’m sure there’s definitely some truth to what he says. Helps explain that effing David Broder’s remark about Clinton. Entitled assholes all around.

    And you not what really burns me? People like the Clintons care far more about the rest of us than all the those entitled jerks, and that’s why those “aristocrats” do their best to convince the starry-eyed dopes, the unicorn-believers, the “both sides are the same” proponents, the desperate, the hopeless, the ultra-religious, the uninformed, that our government is broken and some person will save them.

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