Yale friend says Kavanaugh would get 'belligerent and aggressive' after drinking

One of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's friends from Yale, Charles Ludington, will give the FBI on Monday a statement about Kavanaugh's drunken behavior during college, Ludington told The Washington Post on Sunday.

Ludington, an associate professor at North Carolina State University, said he will deliver the statement to a field office in Raleigh, and provided a copy of the statement to the Post. He wrote that when Kavanaugh "got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive. On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man's face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail."

Ludington also said he does not think that a person's behavior at 18 or 21 should define them, but "if [Kavanaugh] lied about his past actions on national television, and more especially while speaking under oath in front of the United States Senate, I believe those lies should have consequences." The FBI is investigating Kavanaugh, after at least three women have publicly accused him of sexual assault.

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