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Julie Swetnick accused Brett Kavanaugh, a Supreme Court candidate, of sexual misconduct.
(Michael Avenatti via AP, File)
Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in the early 1980s, told NBC News that she had seen him "mouthing girls" and[touch] them in private parties "at parties as a high school student, but kept claiming that he was drugged or sexually assaulted her or other women.
MSNBC aired a Swetnick interview on Monday night in "The Beat with Ari Melber", with reporter Kate Snow noting that NBC News "has not been able to independently verify [Swetnick’s] claims. "Kavanaugh strongly denied them.
"There are things she told us in front of the camera that differ from her written statement [to the Senate Judiciary Committee] Last week, Snow said, we tried independently to contact anyone who remembers having attended parties with Julie Swetnick and Brett Kavanaugh and we asked her name to her lawyer. Until now, we have not found anyone who can remember it. "
In the interview, Swetnick said she was inspired by the idea of getting known after Christine Blasey Ford was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh at an evening at which Ford and Kavanaugh had attended while they were high school students in the early 1980s.
"I started thinking about … the early 80s in Montgomery County, Maryland, and I thought I could have information that corroborated some of the things that she had said" said Swetnick.
She added that she had met Kavanaugh while she was in a community college and that she was attending house parties that would attract "anyone aged 15 to 16, maybe to be even more. " Swetnick stated that she remembered being "presented in a specific way" and described her as "very aggressive".
"Very drunk, very nasty," she said of the future federal judge. "I saw him trying to change clothes … I saw him push the girls against the walls, he would pretend to stumble and fall into them and hit them against a wall." his body against theirs, he would grope them. "
However, Swetnick could not tell if she had ever seen Kavanaugh or his friend Mark Judge hit the shot with drugs.
"Well, I saw him give Red Solo cups to a lot of girls during that time and there was green punch at those parties," Swetnick said. "And I would not take one of those glasses from Brett Kavanaugh, I saw him around the punch, I would not say bowls, or containers of punch … I do not know what He did, but I saw him by their side. "
Swetnick stated that Kavanaugh and Judge had attended a party where she had been drugged and sexually assaulted at the age of 19, but added, "I can not say with any accuracy that it was the One of those who assaulted me, but before that happened to me, I saw Brett Kavanaugh, I saw Mark Judge and they were hanging out in the area where I was starting. I felt disoriented and where the room and the other boys were laughing and laughing and I heard them laughing and laughing. "
Swetnick claimed that she had reported her assault to the Montgomery County Police Department, but officials told NBC News that retrieval of documents related to any report could take up to a month. Swetnick also gave NBC News the names of four friends who could corroborate his story. Snow said that two of these people had not responded to requests for comment, a third had died and a fourth stated that he did not remember having known Swetnick.
Kavanaugh called Swetnick's charges a "joke," while the judge said he "categorically" refuted his claims.
The White House has asked the FBI to question anyone deemed useful for further investigation into Kavanaugh's background, but demanded that work be done by Friday. President Trump said Monday that Swetnick's charges had "very little credibility," but added that she should be questioned "if there is any credibility".
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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