Julie Swetnick, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of participating in gang rapes in the 1980s, has a problem with her story. Four problems, actually.
Swetnick, represented by porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti, claims Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were both at a party at which she was drugged and gang raped. On Monday, she did a lengthy interview on NBC News in which she made several unsubstantiated claims.
NBC, toeing the liberal line as expected, put her on anyway. Before airing the interview with Swetnick, NBC News national correspondent Kate Snow said: “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.”
Well, run with it anyway, right, NBC?
But wait. It gets worse.
Swetnick “provided four names to NBC News that she said could confirm her descriptions of the parties in the 1980s. NBC News contacted all four: one said they did not remember a Julie Swetnick, one was dead, and two did not respond, per Snow,” Mediaite reported.
Due diligence and all. Sounds like the case presented by Christine Blasey Ford, in which all four of the people she named as being present when she claimed she was sexually molested either denied the claim or didn’t remember anything happening at the party.
In the NBC interview, Swetnick claimed she “became aware of efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh, and others to ‘spike’ the ‘punch’ at house parties” she attended. Snow noted that Swetnick claimed she saw them near the punch but did not actually see them “spike” the punch with alcohol.
“I don’t know what he did,” Swetnick told NBC.
NBC News also noted that Swetnick appeared to change her initial statement about Kavanaugh being involved in gang rapes. Swetnick initially claimed: “I also witnessed efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others to cause girls to become 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. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh.”
As The Daily Wire reported previously, “in the interview with NBC News, Swetnick said they did not stand in lines but ‘huddled by doors,’ and that she “didn’t understand what it could possibly be.’ Swetnick said that she had no idea what the boys were doing outside the doors until she claims she was raped, and then in hindsight claimed that it was ‘just too coincidental.'”
Ronna McDaniel, chairman of the Republican National Committee, found four more big problems with Swetnick’s tale.