Holy Shit. Michael Avenatti just posted this to Twitter:
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I can’t figure out how to copy the letter, but it says Avenatti is aware of “significant evidence of multiple house parties” in DC in the 80s where Kavanaugh, his friend Mark Judge and others would “target women with alcohol/drugs to allow a train of men to subsequently gang rape them.”
Avennati claims there are multiple witnesses who will corroborate this.
He says Kavanaugh must be questioned about:
*whether he targeted women for rape
*whether he ever attended a party where a woman was gang raped or used by multiple men
*whether he ever saw a line of men outside a room at a party where he understand a woman was being raped inside
*Whether he ever participated in sexual conduct where a woman was intoxicated or drugged
*whether he ever talked to Mark Judge or others about participating in a “train” of men having sex with a woman
*whether he ever tried to stop anyone from having sex with women who were intoxicated or drugged.
Politico is reporting talking to Avenatti tonight saying he has multiple witnesses and one additional victim.
“I represent multiple clients, they are witnesses. I’m representing multiple individuals that have knowledge of this, there’s no other attorneys involved,” Avenatti told POLITICO. Asked if the witnesses attended Georgetown Prep’s sister school, he said they went beyond that. “They went to schools in the same general areas. These house parties were widely attended.”
Avenatti said his new claims are "not out of character from what Dr. Ford said.” Politico
Here is Avenatti’s Twitter Feed
I think something else is getting buried in all the news this evening, and that’s a woman who says she dated Mark Judge for three years in college. This is from Ronin Farrow/Jane Mayer article:
Rasor recalled that Judge had told her ashamedly of an incident that involved him and other boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman. Rasor said that Judge seemed to regard it as fully consensual. She said that Judge did not name others involved in the incident, and she has no knowledge that Kavanaugh participated. New Yorker
I have a request: People who are skeptical about the claims against Kavanaugh, who interact with people who are skeptical — I wish you’d ask those people to talk to their wives/sisters/mothers/daughters and ask about the experiences they’ve had with sexual harassment and sexual assault.
If they won’t believe this is any more than Democrats and partisanship, maybe they’ll believe what they hear from their own relatives. Dare them to ask.
My women friends have been talking more this week than I ever remember about sexual assault and harassment. Some of them are telling people for the first time ever — after decades.
I know a lot of that’s already happened. But I doubt the people who need to hear if have heard or listened. I think one way to honor what these brave women are doing, coming forward to testify about Kavanaugh — is to tell our own stories. All of us.
If Thursday’s hearing happens, I think this is a powerful way to honor what the witnesses against Kavanaugh are going through on behalf of all of us.