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Kavanaugh Accuser Julie Swetnick: “I Don’t Think He Belongs” on SCOTUS

HeadlineSep 28, 2018

The third woman to publicly accuse Judge Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct has spoken on camera for the first time about her allegations. Julie Swetnick says in a sworn affidavit that she observed Kavanaugh at high school parties in the 1980s joining efforts to inebriate girls so they could be gang-raped. She says Kavanaugh was present at a party in which she herself was the victim of a “gang rape.” Swetnick spoke with Showtime’s John Heilemann.

Julie Swetnick: “Brett Kavanaugh is going for a seat where he’s going to have that seat on the Supreme Court for the rest of his life. And if he’s going to have that seat legitimately, all of these things should be investigated, because, from what I experienced firsthand, I don’t think he belongs on the Supreme Court. And I just want the facts to come out, and I want it to be just, and I want the American people to have those facts and judge for themselves.”

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