Prepared remarks released Wednesday show that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh plans to maintain his unequivocal denial of the sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Christine Blasey Ford has accused Kavanaugh of forcibly groping her at a party while they were both in high school. She and Kavanaugh will testify Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the matter. In prepared written testimony released Wednesday by the committee, Kavanaugh says he "never had any sexual or physical encounter of any kind with [Ford]," per CNN, and that he did not do "anything remotely resembling what [Ford] describes." While Kavanaugh does say that he "drank beer with [his] friends" in high school and "sometimes had too many," he writes that he was mostly focused on "academics, sports, church, and service."
Additionally, Kavanaugh says that the allegations against him are "last-minute smears, pure and simple" and that he has "never sexually assaulted anyone — not in high school, not in college, not ever." A second woman, Deborah Ramirez, accused Kavanaugh over the weekend of exposing himself to her at a party while they were both students at Yale University. A third woman, Julie Swetnick, alleged that Kavanaugh was present at high school parties where women were drugged and raped, via a sworn affidavit that was released Wednesday nearly simultaneously to Kavanaugh's prepared remarks.
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In his prepared testimony, Kavanaugh also reiterates a claim that he made to Fox News during an interview Monday, suggesting that Ford might have him confused with someone else. He is "not questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place at some time," he says, but he denies that it is him. Kavanaugh has denied all of the sexual misconduct allegations against him. Read his full prepared statement at CNN.
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