Julie Swetnick Grilled About Kavanaugh, ‘Gang Rape’ in MSNBC Interview

The FBI has reportedly made no arrangements to speak with Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. So her lawyer Michael Avenatti decided to bring her story directly to the people.

In her first sit-down TV interview, which aired in part Monday evening on MSNBC, Swetnick told NBC News reporter Kate Snow that she is “quite a shy person and quite a private person” and that she only decided to come forward with her memories about Kavanaugh “about six weeks ago” when she heard that he had been shortlisted to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy. As someone who is “not political at all,” Swetnick had trouble nailing down exactly when that was but confirmed that she decided to speak out after the news about Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation became public.

“Then I became aware of Dr. Ford and her description of what had happened to her at a party one time, that also had Brett Kavanaugh involved,” she said. “And I started to think back to my days when I was in the early ’80s in Montgomery County in Maryland. And I thought that I might have some information that might corroborate some of the things that she had stated.”

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