Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh defended his intake of beer during his high school years during Thursday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying that he liked beer at the time, and still does.
He emphasized, however, that he never reached the point of blacking out when drinking.
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“I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes, others did,” Kavanaugh said. “I liked beer. I still like beer. But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out, and I never sexually assaulted anyone.”
He said, “there is a bright line between drinking beer, which I gladly do, and which I fully embrace, and sexually assaulting someone, which is a violent crime.”
Kavanaugh admitting he drank beer in high school. “I still like beer. But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out and I never sexually assaulted anyone.” pic.twitter.com/n4j0Nx28j8
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Kavanaugh went on to warn of the consequences of implicating someone solely based on their drinking habits.
“If every American who drinks beer, or every American who drank beer in high school is suddenly presumed guilty of sexual assault, we’ll be in an ugly new place in this country,” he said.
Kavanaugh’s comments about beer were as part of a lengthy defense against allegations of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford, who testified earlier in the day that the judge forced himself on her in the summer of 1982 during high school.
