UPDATE #3 Now we have the latest “accuser” courtesy of Michale Avenatti.
The 55-year-old certified systems engineer Swetnick, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC, identified herself as a resident of Washington, D.C.
A 1980 graduate of Gaithersburg High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, she said she has has held multiple work clearances for work done at the Treasury Department, U.S. Mint, IRS, State Department and Justice Department, among others.
If there are dates, Kavanaugh’s calendar should help but these accusations will probably be just as vague as Ford’s.
A third accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday publicly identified herself and alleged that Kavanaugh and others while in high school spiked the drinks of girls at parties with intoxicants to make it easier for them to be gang raped.
The woman, Julie Swetnick, said Kavanaugh was in line with other boys, including his close friend Mark Judge, waiting to rape those girls at many parties, and that she once became a victim herself. The allegations were detailed in an affidavit released by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, and signed under penalty of perjury.
Swetnick’s stunning claims, made on the eve of scheduled testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by Kavanaugh and his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, came in an affidavit sent to a senior committe staffer. Ford claims Kavanuagh held her down on a bed and groped her during a gathering in the 1980s while Judge watched.
Swetnick’s accusations against Kavanaugh, who currently serves as a federal appeals judge in Washington, D.C., could make an already imperiled nomination to the Supreme Court even less likely to succeed.
Kavanaugh said, in a statement about Swetnick: “This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone.”
“I don’t know who this is and this never happened,” Kavanaugh said. He had told Fox News earlier this week that “I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone.”
In a letter to Judiciary Committee leaders made public after Swetnick’s claims came to light, Kavanaugh vowed not to withdraw his nomination.
She says that she shared the story of her own alleged gang rape with “at least two other people” shortly after it occurred.
I expect those two”witnesses” will be quickly sworn in. I’m afraid the Democrats have won this one. I see only delay until after the election.
UPDATE #2 The conclusion is likely to arrive tomorrow with the hearing about the Ford allegations. I do not expect her to appear. Her lawyers have been sending increasingly hostile notes to Senator Grassley which suggests they are making an excuse story for her non-appearance. Grassley is having none of it.
Ranking Judiciary Committee Democrat has apparently sought to call off tomorrow’s hearing with Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh. Senator Feinstein has sought the postponement of the hearing on the pretext of the New Yorker’s Deborah Ramirez story. The Ramirez story is all the buzz among Yale students who think they have something valuable to offer the rest of us, but it died of humiliation shortly after publication. Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley responded to Senator Feinstein’s request for postponement by letter yesterday. Senator Grassley has a good handle on what is happening here.
This appears to be a weird ploy to assist Democrats in the coming mid-term elections. The red state Democrats are facing a choice.
Do they vote for the nomination to save their Senate seats? Or do they follow the party line and lose ?
“It is very important that we send a signal out of the gate that this is a winnable fight,” said Brian Fallon, the head of a new Democratic judicial advocacy group called Demand Justice. “By throwing in the towel before there was an opportunity to really pressure the pro-choice Republicans, you would have a sense of deflation among progressives that is the last thing you should want going into the midterms.”
UPDATE: There are now some findings that suggest why Christine Blasey Ford deleted her social media before airing her allegations. She even deleted the online version of her high school year book and now we know why.
President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaaugh for a position as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Kavanaugh worked in the George Bush administration, and had been a lawyer on the staff of Ken Starr, both positions guaranteed to create controversy with Democrats.
As an attorney working for Ken Starr, Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the Starr Report, which urged the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.[2] Kavanaugh led the investigation into the suicide of Clinton aide Vince Foster. After the 2000 U.S. presidential election (in which Kavanaugh worked for the George W. Bush campaign in the Florida recount), Kavanaugh joined the administration as White House Staff Secretary and was a central figure in its efforts to identify and confirm judicial nominees.[3]
This would have been enough to stir the Democrats to opposition.
He appeared to be more interested in sports than girls.
Kavanaugh was raised in Bethesda, Maryland. As a teenager he attended Georgetown Preparatory School, where he was two years senior to future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.[21][22] At Georgetown Prep, he was captain of the school’s basketball team and served as a wide receiver and cornerback for the school’s varsity football team.[23] After prep school, Kavanaugh went to Yale University and majored in history.
The Gorsuch connection is interesting. There is a rumor, so far unconfirmed, that the woman who claimed he assaulted her, Christine Blasey Ford also accused Gorsuch in a previous letter. Both boys went to the same prep school and both had prominent mothers. Kavanaugh’s mother was a judge who was briefly involved in the foreclosure on Blasey Ford’s parents’ home.
The accuser said she expected her story to be kept confidential.[5][22] In August she took a polygraph test with a former FBI agent, who concluded she was being truthful when she endorsed a statement summarizing her allegations as accurate.
If she expected her accusation to remain confidential, while derailing a Supreme Court nomination, why did she take a polygraph and what were the questions ?
The therapist’s notes do not name Kavanaugh but record her claim of being attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” who went on to become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington”. The therapist’s notes also say four boys were involved, which Ford attributed to an error by the therapist; Ford said in 2018 that four boys were at the party but only two were involved in the incident.[5] Ford’s husband recalled that she had used Kavanaugh’s last name in her 2012 description of the incident.
Why has the husband not been interviewed if he has confirming information ?
This looks to me like a late hit using a vague allegation that cannot be confirmed by any agency, including the FBI.
Why did Feinstein sit on this for two months, then demand an FBI investigation the week before the confirmation vote and after all the hearings ?
She attended the 2017 Women’s March and the March for Science.[6][9] According to the Federal Election Commission, she has made campaign contributions totaling $80.50, which included donations to the Democratic National Committee and Friends of Bernie Sanders
She seems to be a standard leftist professor in California. I see no evidence that she should be believed as anything other than a hit job stooge. The purpose of this caper is to delay the confirmation vote past the November election to shield “red state” Democrats from a vote that will complicate their re-election campaign.