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Oh My, Please Make It Stop!
A third woman came forward Wednesday morning to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. In this case, the woman accused him of engaging in repeated lewd behavior with women at parties in the early 1980s, and of putting drugs or alcohol in punch to cause women to become inebriated so they could be “gang raped” by a group of male partygoers.
It gets better;
In a sworn declaration released by Avenatti, Swetnick said she attended a public high school near Georgetown Prep, where Kavanaugh was a student. (Avenatti said she graduated in 1980.) She said she met Kavanaugh and Judge at a house party in the area in approximately 1980-81.
Swetnick said that she attended more than 10 parties with Kavanaugh and Judge between 1981 and 1983. “I witnessed Brett Kavanaugh consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women during the early 1980s,” she said.
Believe it or not, it gets even better;
“In approximately 1982, I became the victim of one of these ‘gang’ or ‘train’ rapes where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present,” Swetnick wrote under penalty of perjury.
“During the incident, I was incapacitated without my consent and unable to fight off the boys raping me. I believe I was drugged using Quaaludes or something similar placed in what I was drinking,” she said.
I’m not buying into this story, but I do have a rather insensitive question for her.
You attended approximately 10 or more parties where women were being drugged, and gang raped. At what point between the first party and the last party you attended did it occur to you that perhaps attending these parties was not a very good idea? I’ve got all day to wait for your answer, so take your time.
I’m still not buying her story regardless of the answer.
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I think we’re seeing plenty of “random vengeance” lately. Somebody did something to me 40 years ago, and now some man, any man will do, is going to pay. And Democrats like that idiot senator from Hawaii are adding to the mob mentality.
I might buy that argument if we were talking about a small handful of girls – say two or three. But she makes it sound like there were a lot more than that. So I’m supposed to believe that a lot of girls refused to report the rapes? Refused to talk to their parents about what happened? (Asked because I’m assuming that if they had talked to their parents, at least some of the parents would have insisted on reporting what happened.) Yeah, I’m not buying it.
I agree. One of my family members applied for a job with the CIA after college where they were doing recruiting of students who were finishing their Masters. They were amazingly thorough and interviewed our whole family, all her friends, both male and female, and conducted a polygraph. The questions they asked were up close and personal. There is no way she could have participated in anything in high school or college like these accusers are suggesting without the investigators finding out about it. For Kavanaugh to have been through as many FBI checks as he has over the years, they would have known everything.
Prepare for the next allegation against Kavanaugh:
Chuck Schumer will say, “Kavanaugh’s involvement in assisting in alien abductions shows that he needs to withdraw his nomination.”
As someone noted, it’s the Salem Witch Trials redux except this time we have the witches going after the judges.
Wouldn’t a 20 year old who witnessed a 16 year old drinking, drugging high school girls, and engaging in non-consensual sex with them and failed to report it to police be complicit in corruption of a minor, assault of a minor, and rape of a minor? She was a responsible adult at a party full of minors, and knew that illegal acts were occurring but did nothing? And she attended at least 9 more such parties?!
Lock her up and throw away the key!
If you have every reason to expect the punch to be spiked, and you drink it anyway, was it really without your consent?
Democrats can’t even exhibit the minimal competence to concoct believable stories for their smears.
Aside from the many internal problems with this latest accusation, presumably many people would have witnessed such events, yet every single comment we heard about Judge Kavanaugh up until two weeks ago was about his positive treatment of and respect for the people around him.
To believe this latest assertion about events at which large numbers of people were present, we have to believe that some magical power that prevents any of those many people from ever mentioning it to anyone for 35 plus years?
Furthermore, participating in gang rapes is generally not the first sexual assault a boy or man does. He first does other sexual assaults. So again, we have to believe that some magical power prevents all the people who witnessed or heard about those other assaults from mentioning anything to anyone?
Based on internal issues in this allegation, I am skeptical. Based on the large amount of evidence we have seen on Judge Kavanaugh, I do not believe this latest allegation as applied to Brett Kavanaugh.
I’d like to see them serve her a subpoena for slander at her testimony. I’d like to see that “client” of Avenotti be charged and an accessory to these rapes she witnessed and was apparently a passive participant to in the crime – charge her and let’s see what other “memories” mysteriously become recovered.
If the probe doesn’t fit, you must acquit!
Said: “Kavanaugh spiked the punchbowl and sometimes got handsy.”
Not Said: “Kavanaugh raped, or drugged people.”
It’s like one of those wretched National Enquirer stories where Bigfoot never shows up again after the headline.
FIFY
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Huh, what an odd connection.
Poor Swetnick, beset by trouble wherever she goes.
My recollection is those kinds of reporting standards became common long after 1980’s.
Reporting standards: could be. I couldn’t find the specific date when the mandatory reporter law went into effect.
An adult who witnessed minors drugging multiple other minors, assaulting other minors, and raping other minors, and did not report them or attempt to intervene still could be considered an accomplice to those crimes. If she willfully assisted in the covering up in any way it would be abetting the crime.
What responsibility does an adult at a party of minors have when there is drinking and sexual assault occurring and they expressly know it?
Breaking news: I have obtained exclusive video of the alleged incident!
I think Avenatti has been watching too many porn movies.
From National Review via Politico (emphasis mine; enjoy):
Actually … the more I think about it, there is one way it makes sense.
If there are a series of parties where sexual assaults take place.
And person A know about this.
And yet A continues to go.
If all that is true, then the only way I can make sense of it all is if A is the perpetrator of the assaults.
This. I’ve done these background checks – did all or part of the field work on somewhere over a thousand of them, for federal agencies. There is no conceivable way this sort of behavior would have been missed by any one of the – is it six? backgrounds that he’s been through. I can state, unequivocally, they didn’t happen.
There is a curious footnote to this, though – the thoroughness and effectiveness of the background process, and the followup actions by the agencies themselves, were seriously hampered – by the Clinton administration. This is particularly true of “full field background investigations,” which lead to top secret or equivalent security clearances. And every one of those six background reports would be in his security file – unless, of course, they were purloined, no doubt in Sandy Burglar’s socks, and removed to the White House in a former administration. But I digress…