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brooklynite

(94,571 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 11:23 AM Sep 2018

New Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick details parties where she says girls were drugged and raped

Source: CNBC

The lawyer Michael Avenatti on Wednesday identified another accuser of Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, Washington resident Julie Swetnick.

Swetnick, in an affidavit posted online by Avenatti, claims that Kavanaugh, as a high school student in the early 1980s, with others spiked the drinks of girls at house parties with grain alcohol and/or drugs to "cause girls to lose inhibitions and their ability to say 'No.' "

Swetnick said these efforts by Kavanaugh and his buddy Mark Judge were done so the girls "could then be 'gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of numerous boys."

"I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their 'turn' with a girl inside the room. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh," Swetnick said.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/michael-avenatti-identifies-kavanaugh-accuser-as-julie-swetnick.html

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New Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick details parties where she says girls were drugged and raped (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2018 OP
Here we go!! nt blaze Sep 2018 #1
Whoa!!!!!!! calimary Sep 2018 #2
MSNBC is on it now. calimary Sep 2018 #3
But what boy HASN'T mindfulNJ Sep 2018 #4
that remark from that horrendous woman just threw me onetexan Sep 2018 #5
And now Avenatti's become a huge RW target Rhiannon12866 Sep 2018 #31
i'm sure of it, but he knew going in that he would be a target onetexan Sep 2018 #32
He really is - he had proved that already Rhiannon12866 Sep 2018 #33
I know, right? geardaddy Sep 2018 #21
Common Ptclear Sep 2018 #26
welcome to DU gopiscrap Sep 2018 #30
Tip of the ice berg duforsure Sep 2018 #6
Democrats need to repeatedly push watoos Sep 2018 #7
But he had a calendar! IggleDuer Sep 2018 #8
Yeah, which shows he was at Beach Week where Swetnick was raped n/t Tom Rinaldo Sep 2018 #11
Yep. Kavanaugh's calendar corroborates her! nt SunSeeker Sep 2018 #18
Wham! Even though we knew it was coming The_jackalope Sep 2018 #9
Julie Swetnick was also a victim NastyRiffraff Sep 2018 #10
Julie Swetnick's full declaration: appalachiablue Sep 2018 #12
CBS News now has it up and fairly accurate. Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #16
And this sad excuse of a human being is going to be our next supreme court justice? ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #13
Gang rape is in keeping with the M.O. of a judge who'd force a girl of 17 to have a baby. SunSeeker Sep 2018 #14
never forget Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2018 #23
Don't worry. I can't forget. nt SunSeeker Sep 2018 #24
I'm a 43 year old guy...and this is fucking nauseating to read titaniumsalute Sep 2018 #15
To quote Jeff Goldblum's classic line in Independence Day... spiderpig Sep 2018 #17
Another apt quote from that film... Moostache Sep 2018 #20
That was so like, the 80's, he's past that now.... getagrip_already Sep 2018 #19
Disgusting republican "values" are a plague upon the nation Achilleaze Sep 2018 #22
I went to HS in Washington DC at the exact same time as Kavanaugh Yavin4 Sep 2018 #25
You weren't invited. Jailbait like me was though. Frats advertised at girls schools bettyellen Sep 2018 #27
Also, I went to a public HS in NE Washington, DC Yavin4 Sep 2018 #28
Different kind of parties. I'd only go to college parties for free booze. And we'd leave before bettyellen Sep 2018 #29

onetexan

(13,041 posts)
5. that remark from that horrendous woman just threw me
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 11:34 AM
Sep 2018

it was so appalling that this was a woman saying this. She apparently doesn't see this applicable to herself or her sister, her mother, her female friends, OR her consistuents.

All i can say is KUDOS & 'Addaboy' to Avenatti. I'm glad he injected himself into this situation. We need him as an attack dog for Dems and all people who don't condone this horrific administration.

onetexan

(13,041 posts)
32. i'm sure of it, but he knew going in that he would be a target
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 05:18 AM
Sep 2018

someone has to stand up to these thugs. He is a brave man.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
6. Tip of the ice berg
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 11:34 AM
Sep 2018

And kavanaugh's past will all be exposed , and trump and the gop knew about it all. This will make it likely the gop will lose both the House and the Senate with them helping by doing this, and trump tweeting and talking every day. Kavanaugh is a liar and very corrupt , and it'll come out he's not such a nice guy too , just like trump said about him and putin, and neither one is. No one should ever listen to The Lying King trump for his part in this. He's a serial liar and treasonous and very corrupt. Under no circumstances should any Senator vote for his becoming a Supreme Court justice, and those that still vote for him, knowing any of this has no place in OUR government. Vote these criminals out of office.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
7. Democrats need to repeatedly push
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 11:39 AM
Sep 2018

in the hearing tomorrow for Swetnick and Ramirez to come before the committee before any vote is taken.

The Democratic Al Franken attackers need to step up to plate and show their faces on TV. I saw Gillibrand on msnbc yesterday.

Watch for the reich wing narrative that this is just a leftist smear campaign, and this narrative will be pushed on cable news. We shall see which narrative wins out;

1. It is a Leftist smear campaign.
2. Kavanaugh is a monster.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
10. Julie Swetnick was also a victim
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 11:47 AM
Sep 2018

Not just a witness:

Swetnick said these efforts by Kavanaugh and his buddy Mark Judge were done so the girls "could then be 'gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of numerous boys." She said "I became the victim" of one such rape "where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present


Sickening. She is brave coming forward, knowing the shaming she's going to get. It's so damn predictable: "What was she doing at that party?" "She was drunk" etc. As if either of those things mean it was okay to rape her.

SWBTATTReg

(22,124 posts)
13. And this sad excuse of a human being is going to be our next supreme court justice? ...
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 12:03 PM
Sep 2018

God help us all!

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)
23. never forget
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 02:16 PM
Sep 2018

The Greedy Old Perverts pretend the only problem is what's currently in the headlines and pretend that's fake or too far in the past to matter.

Kavanaugh's -recent- history should be sufficient to keep him off SCOTUS.

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
15. I'm a 43 year old guy...and this is fucking nauseating to read
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 12:12 PM
Sep 2018

I have two sons 14 and 20. If I found out they did anything like this the police would have to make me not do physical harm to them. Thank God they are two good boys. Fuck me Kavanaugh, Judge and others are really sick Mfers.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
17. To quote Jeff Goldblum's classic line in Independence Day...
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 12:17 PM
Sep 2018

..."Oops"

Kavanaugh is a sleaze and a hypocrite. But who isn't in this administration?

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
20. Another apt quote from that film...
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 02:10 PM
Sep 2018

"That's not entirely true..." (Sleazy Chief of Staff acknowledging Area 51 existence)

"Really? Which part?"

getagrip_already

(14,750 posts)
19. That was so like, the 80's, he's past that now....
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 02:03 PM
Sep 2018

Look at how important he has become. He couldn't have possibly done those things and accomplished so much.....

Barf. Even as satire, I can't take it.

Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
25. I went to HS in Washington DC at the exact same time as Kavanaugh
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 02:36 PM
Sep 2018

I never did anything like this nor did I see anyone else doing anything like this. Not even when I went to college in DC.

Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
28. Also, I went to a public HS in NE Washington, DC
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 03:02 PM
Sep 2018

A predominately African American community. That may have something to do with it.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
29. Different kind of parties. I'd only go to college parties for free booze. And we'd leave before
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 03:46 PM
Sep 2018

Getting sloppy and go someplace safer to dance after. We were broke, but smart enough to stay away from the punch.

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