Julie Swetnick Didn't Accuse Kavanaugh Outright in New Interview
I'd really want to see her. I really would want to see what she has to say, but I want to give it all the time they need. They've already given it time, they've delayed a major hearing. There's no more, just about, look. When I first decided to run, everybody said the single most important thing you do is the Supreme Court Justice It's okay, we've all heard that many times about a president. I would say this, I think he's an extraordinary man. I think he's a man of great intellect, as I've been telling you, and he has an unblemished record. This is a very tough thing for him and his family. And we wanna get it over with, at the same time We wanna give tremendous amounts of time. If she shows up, that would be wonderful, if she doesn't show up, that would be unfortunate
Julie Swetnick sat down with Kate Snow in what everyone thought would be a bombshell interview. Instead, Swetnick, who is represented by Michael Avenatti, said that she wasn't completely sure that it was Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh who sexually assaulted her back in the '80s.
My client Julie Swetnick has offered to take a polygraph test, meet with the FBI and be cross examined by Kavanaugh’s lawyers. He has refused to do the same. All of these women cannot be lying. And women who are lying do not push to meet with the FBI. Why the coverup by Trump?
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) October 1, 2018
What Swetnick did confirm, however, was that she survived a gang rape at a party that Kavanaugh attended. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he denied the accusations, which Swetnick offered while she was under oath. She added that "he is an admitted blackout drunk and drug addict." She offered more details during the interview, explaining who she saw and what she endured.
"I cannot specifically say that he was one of the ones who assaulted me," Swetnick told Snow. "But, before this happened to me, at that party, I saw Brett Kavanaugh there, I saw Mark Judge, and they were hanging out about where I started to feel disoriented and where the room was and where the other boys were hanging out and laughing."
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In her statement, Swetnick claimed that Kavanaugh "consistently engage(d) in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women in the early 1980s."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has attacked the credibility of Julie Swetnick, who has come forward with allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh https://t.co/IUMlhacHLm
— CNN (@CNN) October 1, 2018
Julie Swetnick describes what she saw at parties and that it was "too coincidental" to believe that Kavanaugh wasn't participating in what she describes as gang rapes https://t.co/TGUyc0cwOu #Kavanaugh pic.twitter.com/p9mJIAHdya
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 1, 2018
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Before the interview aired, Snow cautioned the audience. She stated that she and NBC were simply reporting on Swetnick's claims and that a large number of people had worked on the story.
"NBC News, for the record, has not been able to independently verify her claims. There are things she told us on camera that differ from her written statements last week," Snow said. After the interview concluded, she gave Ari Melber another disclaimer: "We're not discounting what she said in any way."
