Kavanaugh mentions liking beer an astounding amount while denying a drunken sexual assault

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September 28, 2018 12:21 PM

President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gave a spirited defense of his conduct and character at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where he was accused of drunken sexual assault, but mentioned drinking beer nearly 30 times.

Brett Kavanaugh gave a spirited defense of his conduct and character at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, during which he was accused of drunken sexual assault, but mentioned drinking beer nearly 30 times.

President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee said a number of times that he had never drank to the point of memory loss. He was defending against Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that he attempted to rape her at a high school party in 1982 while under the influence of alcohol.

But bizarrely, a refrain of Kavanaugh's defense became repeated iterations of some version of "I like beer."

In total, Kavanaugh mentioned "beer" 29 times. Kavanaugh conceded that most of his social functions in high school involved beer drinking that, despite his claims to the contrary, violated state law at the time.

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