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.99center

(1,237 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 03:11 PM Sep 2018

Kavanaugh Lawyer Blames New Accuser Julie Swetnick for Not Reporting Alleged Gang Rapes

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Kavanaugh Lawyer Blames New Accuser Julie Swetnick for Not Reporting Alleged Gang Rapes
Matt Wilstein
09.26.18 2:56 PM ET
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kavanaugh-lawyer-blames-new-accuser-julie-swetnick-for-not-reporting-alleged-gang-rapes

During his highly publicized speech on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said he does not “believe that a claim of sexual assault is invalid because a 15-year-old girl didn’t promptly report the assault to the authorities, as the president of the United States said just two days ago” before asking: “How uninformed and uncaring do you have to be to say things like that, much less believe them?”

Apparently Brett Kavanaugh’s lawyer doesn’t feel that standard applies to her client’s third accuser.

After Michael Avenatti revealed new allegations against Kavanaugh from his client, Julie Swetnick, who claims the judge was present at parties where young teenage girls were “gang-raped,” Kavanaugh’s attorney Beth Wilkinson went on CNN to cast doubt on the latest accuser’s credibility.

“When you say you went to ten parties like that and you kept going to those parties even though that was happening and you saw that supposedly happen to other girls?” Wilkinson asked.


They're going all in on blaming the victims. Disgusting.
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Kavanaugh Lawyer Blames New Accuser Julie Swetnick for Not Reporting Alleged Gang Rapes (Original Post) .99center Sep 2018 OP
"If only someone had reported the gang rapes, my client would not be in this position." nt NCjack Sep 2018 #1
zing! Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2018 #5
Keep diggi n' Wilkerson....eom asiliveandbreathe Sep 2018 #2
To me, this confirms Kavanaugh was involved. Iliyah Sep 2018 #3
Someone should've retorted with the victims of priest molestation being credible, don't know why the uponit7771 Sep 2018 #4
There is something about that woman that reminds me of Ann Coulter. GemDigger Sep 2018 #6
We just witnessed yesterday how long it takes for woman to finally get to bill Cosby. FloridaBlues Sep 2018 #7
Wasn't Kavenaugh's mother a prosecutor thucythucy Sep 2018 #8

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
4. Someone should've retorted with the victims of priest molestation being credible, don't know why the
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 03:18 PM
Sep 2018

... they let them get away with gish gallops like this.

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)
7. We just witnessed yesterday how long it takes for woman to finally get to bill Cosby.
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 03:44 PM
Sep 2018

Now republicans will sing from the same talking points.
God I hope everyone of of these asswipes gets voted out.

thucythucy

(8,047 posts)
8. Wasn't Kavenaugh's mother a prosecutor
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 04:24 PM
Sep 2018

and then a judge?

Think about it. How many teenagers would be willing to accuse the son of a prosecutor or judge of rape? A rich white boy whose mother, or certainly friends of his mother, might be the person charged with prosecuting the case?

Talk about the deck being stacked against you.

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