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.