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Trial Balloon · Ep. 191: Blue Wave Update

Avenatti’s Client Says Kavanaugh Facilitated ‘Gang Rapes’

September 26, 2018 · 10:55 am ET · Leave a Comment

Michael Avenatti revealed his new client as Julie Swetnick, a former student at Gaithersburg High School in Maryland, who attended high school parties with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

In an explosive signed statement, Swetnick said in the 1980s, she witnessed efforts by Kavanaugh and Mark Judge to get teenage girls “inebriated and disoriented” so they could then be “gang raped” in a side room or bedroom by a “train” of numerous boys.

Said Swetnick: “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.”

She also says that she herself was a victim of a gang rape at a party when Kavanaugh was present.

It’s worth remembering that Judge’s former girlfriend told the New Yorker that Judge admitted to her incidents of having sex with drunk girls.

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