Then we have this...
'Gang Rape' Accuser: Actually, I Don't Know What Kavanaugh Did -- and I Don't Have Proof Anyway
Megyn Kelly recently said that it's time for Michael Avenatti to '
put up or shut up' regarding the lurid and dramatic claims being advanced by one of his clients against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Based on that client's interview with NBC last night, it looks like it's time for the celebrity lawyer to do the latter -- though the chances of that are nil. He's running for president and vowing to
expand and pack SCOTUS, no less.
In her first sit-down interview, Julie Swetnick -- the woman who tied Kavanaugh to a
gang rape ring when he was in high school (and she was in college) -- hedged and backed away from a number of her outlandish accusations. NBC News, like the
Wall Street Journal and
New York Times, has been unable to verify anything about Swetnick's account. They ran her interview anyway, for some reason, noting up front that she's already changing her story. "There are things that she told us on camera that differ from her written statement last week:"
Swetnick cannot remember when she came forward with her claims, shifting the dates around (was it six weeks, or a "few" weeks?), and asserting that her goal was to reinforce Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegation against Kavanaugh. In her
sworn statement, Swetnick attested that she was personally aware of Kavanaugh and Mark Judge spiking the punch at parties and funneling dangerous drinks to girls. This was part of the gang rape process, according to her. But in the NBC interview, she admits that she only remembers seeing the two boys
near the punch, and that she never "specifically" saw either of them spike it.
Oh. "I don't know what he [Kavanaugh] did," she continues, in perhaps the most honest sentence she's uttered on this entire matter.
As for the serial gang rape portion of her story, Swetnick says she actually "didn't know what was occurring" at the parties in question, but later surmised that there must have been other gang rapes happening after she herself was gang raped. Allegedly. Was Kavanaugh one of her rapists? Well, she can't say. But she's pretty sure he was at that party. Plus, she says, it would be "too coincidental" for him to have attended these rape parties (she figures they
must have been rape parties, right?) without raping
someone. She goes on to state that "if Brett Kavanaugh is one of the people that did this to me," he shouldn't be on the Supreme Court. Well yeah, but she won't say that he was. Indeed, she provides zero evidence that
anyone did any such thing to her.