Julie Swetnick, Kavanaugh’s third accuser, has come under attack from the President’s son for claiming she was raped at a high school party when she was a college student
With just hours to go until Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces public questioning in regards to historical sexual assault claims made against him, the President’s son has weighed in.
Speaking to followers through his Twitter account, Donald Trump Junior publicly questioned the veracity of Kavanaugh’s third accuser’s account.
Julie Swetnick released a sworn statement through her attorney Michael Avenatti on Wednesday saying Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were there as she was abused by a ‘train’ of teenage boys at a party in 1982, two years after she graduated high school.
Trump Jr said he found it unbelievable Swetnick would attend high school parties as a college sophomore.
‘Odd,’ he wrote. ‘I wonder how many of you went to high school parties repeatedly after you were in college?
‘I’m pretty sure it’s safe to speak for me and my friends that the number hovers around 0.’
The businessman also shared comments from Republican senator Lindsey Graham, who had earlier slammed Swetnick for continuing to attend parties where women were allegedly assaulted.
‘I have a difficult time believing any person would continue to go to – according to the affidavit – ten parties over a two-year period where women were routinely gang raped and not report it,’ Graham said.
Trump Jr said he found it hard to believe Swetnick attended high school parties, and that she continued to attend despite knowing women were being assaulted
In an account Kavanaugh denies, Swetnick said she was drugged at one party ‘using Quaaludes or something similar’ which had been put in her drink.
She further alleged Kavanaugh and his friends would spike ‘punch’ at parties with grain alcohol or drugs to ’cause girls to lose inhibitions and their ability to say ‘No’.’
Kavanaugh has denied the new bombshell charges. ‘This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone,’ he said in a statement released by the White House. ‘I don’t know who this is and this never happened,’ he said.
In a phone call between the nominee and some judiciary members on Tuesday afternoon, Kavanaugh described one of the allegations made against him as ‘an orchestrated hit’, and made multiple references to the idea someone was trying to take him down.
Speaking about his second allegation, where Debbie Ramirez, who attended a college party where she claims Kavanaugh put his penis in her face, the nominee ranted about the allegations being ‘not fair’.
Christine Blasey Ford (left), Kavanaugh’s first accuser, will testify against him on Thursday but Debbie Ramirez, the nominee’s second accuser, is not being called
Kavanaugh has referred to one allegation as an ‘orchestrated hit’
Ramirez reportedly contacted former Yale classmates to ask if they recalled the incident and told some of them that she could not be certain it was Kavanaugh.
‘It’s not appropriate for people to be dredging up uncorroborated stories and trying to refresh other people’s recollections, and then stoke the media and create a feeding frenzy and destroy my family and destroy my reputation and take me down,’ he said.
‘This is not right. It’s an outrage.’
Kavanaugh’s troubles began earlier this month when prominent psychologist Christine Blasey Ford alleged the nominee had pulled her into a bedroom, pinned her down on a bed and covered her mouth with his hand as he tried to rip her swimsuit off.
The pair had both been at a high school party, but Kavanaugh says he has no recollection and has denied the charge.
Both Kavanaugh and Ford will testify to the senate judiciary committee on Thursday.