Brett Kavanaugh Goes Off on Sen. Leahy: Don’t ‘Sit Here and Mock Me!’ 9/27/18

Brett Kavanaugh erupted on Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy after he questioned him about high school drinking during today’s testimony on Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations, passionately telling the lawmaker not to “sit here and mock me.”
Leahy opened his comments by asking if the nominee wants Mark Judge — Kavanaugh’s alcoholic high school friend who was named by Ford as having witnessed and egged-on Kavanaugh’s alleged — as a witness “He’s already provided sworn testimony,” Kavanaugh said, to which Leahy noted that he has not been investigated by the FBI. “I’ve been on this committee 44 years,” Leahy replied. “I’ve never seen somebody that critical and not allowed to be here — not called to testify or an FBI background check.” The questioning then moved onto Kavanaugh’s own drinking and the seeming references he made to it in his high school year book, as well as Judge’s mention of a “Bart O’Kavanaugh vomiting in someone’s car during beach week and then passing out” in his memoir on substance abuse. “He wrote a book that is a fictionalized book and an account,” Kavanaugh said. “I think he picked out names of friends of ours to throw them in… for characters in the book.” The nominee then accused Leahy of “mak[ing] fun of some guy who has an addiction.” This resulted in more questions about Kavanaugh’s high school experiences, specifically mentioned in his yearbook, which he was quick to defend, declaring, “I’m going to talk about my high school record if you’re going to sit here and mock me!” “The year book, as I said in my opening statement, was something where the students and editors made a decision to treat some of it as farce and some of as exaggeration, some of it celebrating the things that weren’t really the central part of our school,” Kavanaugh said. “Yes, of course, we went to parties and the year book page describes that and kind of makes fun of it and, you know, if we want to sit here and talk about whether a Supreme Court nomination should be based on a high school year book page, I think that’s taking us to a new level of absurdity.”