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Uh-oh, COLLUSION rears it's ugly head.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...s-details-on-avenattis-new-client-emerge.html
Republicans stand by Kavanaugh as details on Avenatti's new client emerge
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By Alex Pappas | Fox News

Republicans signaled Tuesday they aren’t abandoning Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court as they cast doubt on graphic new allegations made public by attorney Michael Avenatti, and as Kavanaugh insisted he’s never been involved in any sexual assault.

Avenatti on Tuesday tweeted a "sworn declaration" from a woman named Julie Swetnick who claimed the Supreme Court nominee was involved in "gang" rapes in the early 1980s. She claimed Kavanaugh was "present" when she became a "victim" of one of those alleged assaults. Swetnick’s accusations followed claims of sexual misconduct during high school and college against Kavanaugh from two other women. Kavanaugh has denied all the accusations, and responded to Avenatti’s claim by saying: “This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone. I don’t know who this is and this never happened.”

Late Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that approximately 10 years ago, Swetnick retained the law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks to represent her in dispute with her former employer, insurance company New York Life, over a sexual harassment complaint Swetnick had brought.

Deborah Katz, one of the firm's founding partners, is currently representing another Kavanaugh accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.

Meanwhile, Politico reported that a former boyfriend of Swetnick had sought a restraining order against her in 2001. In an interview with the publication, Richard Vinneccy said that Swetnick had threatened him after they broke up and he married his current wife.

"I have a lot of facts, evidence, that what she’s saying is not true at all," said Vinneccy, who declined to comment further on Swetnick's claims against Kavanaugh.

According to The Washington Post, in 2015, the state of Maryland filed a lien against Swetnick's property, citing more than $30,000 in unpaid taxes dating back to 2008. Court records obtained by The Post showed that the total amount owed, nearly $63,000, was resolved in December 2016, although the paper reported it was unclear exactly how.

And, in 2017, the federal government filed a lien on Swetnick's property, citing a $40,000 unpaid tax bill from 2014, according to The Post. That lien reportedly was released in March 2018, and the debt was similarly satisfied.

"You are simply wrong that the committee investigators are just now starting an inquiry into your allegations," Davis told Avenatti. "Judge Kavanaugh has fully cooperated with committee investigators, including answering every question posed. Is your client willing to have a similar interview with committee investigators?"

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted that he hopes people will “highly suspicious of this allegation presented by Michael Avenatti,” questioning parts of Swetnick’s story.

“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, R-S.C., tweeted.
 
yankeesince59 said:
...not sure if I've posted this before or not;



What Kavanaugh said;


"I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all girls Catholic schools.

And yes, there were parties. And the drinking age was 18, and yes, the seniors were legal and had beer there. And yes, people might have had too many beers on occasion and people generally in high school – I think all of us have probably done things we look back on in high school and regret or cringe a bit, but that’s not what we’re talking about."





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What he SHOULD have said!

"I’m not proud of everything I did when I was young; I doubt any of us are. But growing up means learning from our mistakes, in part so we can help our children grow into responsible adults. When I look back now I realize that my friends and I reveled in our own privilege — we were male, white, rich, and destined to have limitless opportunities laid before us. We drank too much. We treated the young women we knew like objects, or potential conquests, or the butt of jokes. We certainly didn’t empathize with them. If we had, we would have understood how our own behavior made them feel; how it could make them feel vulnerable, degraded, even victimized. We would have understood that those feelings can stay with a person for life, and be a source of pain and anguish, even if you were never the victim of a crime.

We can look back now and say that we can’t expect that kind of empathy from a teenager. But it’s exactly what we should expect. Even if we weren’t capable of it then, today’s teenagers can be, if we use our own failings to teach them to be better than we were. That’s what I’ve tried to do as an adult."
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hahahaha...……..Everyone knows that a controlled school (Military or Christian bible) stimulates some students to be radical.
 
opening statement from Sen. Assley
 
So now there are documents that nobody but the repubs have seen. Par for the course.

This entire show is a sham by the repubs to rush Kav through. Disgraceful!
 
Been watching Professor Ford on TV...very credible testimony IMO. You could tell she was very nervous at the beginning but she calmed down and was very convincing...there were tears in her eyes and in the eyes of many others at the hearing.


...Cavanaugh should save himself and the GOP and Trump any more embarrassment, and withdraw.
 
yankeesince59 said:
Been watching Mrs. Ford on TV...very credible testimony IMO. You could tell she was very nervous at the beginning but she calmed down and was very convincing...there were tears in her eyes and in the eyes of many others at the hearing.


...Cavanaugh should save himself and the GOP and Trump any more embarrassment, and withdraw.
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I have been watching as well. Funny how people see what they want to see. I do not agree with you.
 
...before today all we had on Ford were a couple of pictures as well as news items and documents...but now seeing her live at the hearing it puts the human element into it...and that's much different.
 
rotary111 said:
So now there are documents that nobody but the repubs have seen. Par for the course.

This entire show is a sham by the repubs to rush Kav through. Disgraceful!
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Very disgraceful.
 
DaLincolnJones said:
I have been watching as well. Funny how people see what they want to see. I do not agree with you.
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well duh, it's not like you have been credible and unbiased in this forum and your conclusions often show that.
 
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