Trump declares Kavanaugh allegation 'false,' and Avenatti viciously fires back


A third woman has come forward to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, and President Trump-foe Michael Avenatti has her back.
Julie Swetnick went to high school near Kavanaugh and said he was at parties where incapacitated girls were "gang raped," she revealed in a sworn affidavit Wednesday. Avenatti represents both Swetnick and Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she had an affair with the president, leading Trump to compare himself and Kavanaugh.
In a Wednesday tweet, Trump slammed Avenatti as a "third-rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations" against both himself and Kavanaugh, in what seems to be the president's first public mention of the attorney.
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Avenatti quickly fired back, and he made it personal. In a tweet, the attorney asked, "'False accusations?' Like those crimes your fixer Cohen pled to?" referencing the apparent hush money payments paid to Daniels that landed longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in deep legal trouble. "You are so inept that your 'best and brightest' are Cohen and [Rudy] Giuliani," Avenatti added.
Swetnick joins Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez in publicly accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Kavanaugh has denied all the allegations against him, and Trump has defended the nominee every step of the way.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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