Former President Donald Trump 'strongly considered' withdrawing his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court after the now-Justice declared 'I like beer' during his contentious Senate confirmation hearing, Mark Meadows reveals in his new book out Tuesday.
Trump's former White House chief of staff said the ex-president was 'extremely put off' by Kavanaugh's 2018 admission in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in his memoir, The Chief's Chief.
He found it 'weak' and 'apologetic,' Meadows claimed.
The former DC Circuit Court of Appeals judge mentioned beer more than two dozen times during his September 2018 hearing, which was made all the more controversial by allegations he sexually assaulted college professor Christine Blasey Ford.
Kavanaugh was chosen by Trump to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy in July 2018 but his nomination was quickly derailed when Ford accused him of trying to rape her at a high school party in the 1980s.
It wasn't the allegations that angered Trump, but rather his defense, according to Business Insider.
'I liked beer. I still like beer. But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out, and I never sexually assaulted anyone,' Kavanaugh told senators in his opening statement.
Trump thought Kavanaugh sounded 'too apologetic' in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2018
At another point he defended his past drinking habits, 'We drank beer, and you know, so - so did, I think, the vast majority of - of people our age at the time. But in any event, we drank beer, and — and still do. So whatever, you know.'
There were times Kavanaugh lost his temper, flippantly asking the senators grilling him if they liked beer as well.
Meadows wrote of watching his hearing, 'We thought that his nomination would be a slam dunk. But when the heat started, that calm façade
