Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Calif.) suggested amid a Senate hearing Thursday that if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh could be "this angry" on television, he might be much angrier when inebriated.
"If Brett Kavanaugh can be this angry on national TV, imagine what he's like when he gets inebriated.#KavanaughHearings," Lieu wrote in a tweet.
If Brett Kavanaugh can be this angry on national TV, imagine what he's like when he gets inebriated.#KavanaughHearings https://t.co/jqszfqb8Fq
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 27, 2018
During his second public hearing before the committee, Kavanaugh gave an impassioned defense against allegations he committed sexual assault. The hearing focused on the allegation from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
"I'm here today to tell the truth," Kavanaugh said. "I've never sexual assaulted anyone, not in high school, not in college, not ever. Sexual assault is horrific."
Ford told the Washington Post that Kavanaugh, then a junior in high school, attacked her when they were at a party in Maryland in the early 1980s. She alleged Kavanaugh forced her onto a bed, groped her, and tried to remove her clothes while he was heavily intoxicated, all while his friend Mark Judge watched. She said she managed to escape after Judge jumped on them, sending them tumbling and giving her an opportunity to get out of the room.
Kavanaugh has denied the allegation, as well as all other allegations that followed.
A staffer for Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, also commented on Twitter during Kavanaugh's remarks. "So we're seeing a bit of what happens when a woman says no to him," he wrote in a tweet in reference to Kavanaugh's demeanor.
So we're seeing a bit of what happens when a woman says no to him.
— The Vote Ain't No Joke Peleo-Lazar (@ChrisPeleoLazar) September 27, 2018
Sen. Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii) believes Kavanaugh's emotion in the face of sexual misconduct allegations show it is hard to imagine the nominee being an objective and fair Supreme Court judge.
"It is hard to imagine this person being objective and fair on the Supreme Court," Schatz wrote in a tweet.
It is hard to imagine this person being objective and fair on the Supreme Court.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) September 27, 2018