Brett Kavanaugh - Third accuser comes forward alleging Supreme Court nominee was present for 'gang rape'

The future of Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court after a third woman came forward to make accusations of sexual assault or misconduct at Brett Kavanaugh.

Julie Swetnick said in a sworn statement sent to the Senate Judiciary Committtee, she said at a number of parties in the 1980s, she witnessed efforts by Mr 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”.

“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,” she said in the statement.

Both Mr Kavanaugh and Mr Judge have denied the claims

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