"This kid was scared. He was terrified. That's an assault."

To this day, Maxwell regrets he will never have the chance to make amends with Lauber who, according to the Post, died in 2004…

Late in the day, the Romney campaign provided statements from other former classmates of the GOP contender.

“Mitt was a thoughtful guy with a great sense of humor who cared about his classmates. He had a good perspective on how to balance all the pressures high school students face. He would never go out and do anything mean spirited. Clownish, yes. Never mean,” Richard Moon, one ex-classmate said in the statement furnished by the campaign.

“Mitt never had a malicious bone in his body – trying to imply or characterize him as a bully is absurd,” John French, another former classmate, said in another statement released by Romney’s staff.