Julie Swetnick Might Not Be an Unhinged Lunatic but She Gives a Damned Good Impression of One

screengrab from https://youtu.be/hq_aFCg6bKY

Julie Swetnick, the woman who alleges that as a college student she went to gang-rape parties where the master of ceremonies was a high school student named Brett Kavanaugh, appeared on MSNBC last night. To call the end result a dumpster fire is to give honest dumpster fires everywhere a very bad name. Because I’m lazy this morning, I’m going to tell the tale in tweets. The full interview is at the end of the story.

2. @tvkatesnow also notes that details in their interview differ from the account Swetnick gave just last week.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 1, 2018

I don’t know if it is unprecedented for a political hit on television to be preceded by a disclaimer that the story in the interview does not match the story given “under penalty of perjury,” but it should be.

5. Swetnick says she contacted Montgomery County Police. The officer she mentioned is now deceased and the police say it could take up to a month to find a record of Swetnick's call etc.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 1, 2018

6. Swetnick provided four names to @tvkatesnow of friends who would remember these alleged parties where gang rapes occurred…one of them said they don't remember a Julie Swetnick, another is deceased, and two others have yet to respond.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 1, 2018

So even though NBC was unable to corroborate the story, the imperative of damaging Kavanaugh was so great that they did so anyway..

"[Swetnick] provided four names to NBC News that she said could confirm her descriptions of the parties in the 1980s. NBC News contacted all four: one said they did not remember a Julie Swetnick, one was dead, and two did not respond, per Snow."

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) October 2, 2018

And then there were the character witnesses:

Ex-Boyfriend of Kavanaugh accuser, Julie Swetnick says she never mentioned these accusations to him. He further claims, after 7 years of living with her, “everything she said was an exaggeration.” @IngrahamAngle @FoxNews

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) October 2, 2018

Is this repressed trauma a new thing? Ford waited thirty years to reveal she’d been groped in high school and it took marriage counseling brought on over a house remodeling project to get her to talk. This woman hung out at parties where gang rapes were the featured entertainment and was victimized herself but never mentioned it to anyone before Michael Avenatti came on the scene.

Also this, from ⁦@AP⁩, on Swetnick: she once sued MD transit claiming her broken nose cost her modeling jobs; the “employer” she cited said he was actually just a friend,1st met her in a bar a yr *after* her injury, never owned the co she listed, nor agreed to pay her b/4. pic.twitter.com/lgHno5PoqC

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 1, 2018

And, of course, there are her tax liens. And the time she was sued by her employer for falsifying her resume and sexual harassment.

I’ll close with this bit of sanity from Megyn Kelly:

Due process is not misogynistic. It happens to be the bedrock of our legal system. Ms. Swetnick was just on NBC changing her story dramatically from her sworn declaration. When an accuser has credibility issues, the A. is not to shame those who recognize it. https://t.co/FpiAigEXWn

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 2, 2018

There is no standard under which Swentick is a credible person with a credible story. The idea that Kavanaugh and Judge were at the center of a gang-rape enterprise involving girls from well connected families who attended sister schools to Georgetown Prep–Madeira, Stone Ridge, and Holton Arms–and no one ever commented on it…not the girls who weren’t raped or the guys who didn’t get a place on the train…beggars the imagination. The notion that Swetnick kept this secret for 37 years is bullsh**.

Oddly enough, Susan Collins wants the FBI to talk to Swetnick:

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1046968393511899136

It could also be one of those wishes that Avenatti regrets making.