The accuser Kavanaugh has been "victim again" since he told his story, she says.

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One of three women accusing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Supreme Court said she was "disgusted and rebellious" by critics she received from politicians and politicians. media since his testimony.

Julie Swetnick, a resident of Washington, DC, said in an affidavit given by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, that she had witnessed a drunken Kavanaugh engaging in "highly inappropriate conduct" including to "caress and catch girls without their consent" at many parties at home. in the 1980s, when Kavanaugh was in high school.

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On Saturday, Swetnick issued a statement through Avenatti's intermediary, claiming that she had been "victim again" since her testimony by "some" experts "of the media" and by politicians who have stated that she should have remained silent before the confirmation of charges hearing. what Kavanaugh and another accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, testified.

"They claim that my allegations were" not helpful to the process, "said Swetnick," It's outrageous and shows a complete lack of empathy for the survivors. "I had every right to manifest myself and I have literally put my life in danger of doing so.

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Swetnick's statement came one day after Kavanaugh was sworn in the Supreme Court after a contentious confirmation process. In addition to Ford and Swetnick, another woman, Deborah Ramirez, charged the judge with sexual misconduct when he was in high school and university.

Ford, a professor at the University of California, accused Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her while she was a teenager in the 1980s. And Ramirez, who accused Kavanaugh and a former classmate of Yale University has committed sexual misconduct, told the New Yorker to have exposed herself to her at a party and "poked her penis in the face", causing her to "touch him without her consent". as she pushed him away. "

Kavanaugh denied all the allegations.

Swetnick says she's sticking to everything that she said in the affidavit but said the FBI had "refused to question her" as well as to say "what's wrong?" other corroborating witnesses, claiming that it was because President Donald Trump and some Republican senators "had never really wanted to reveal the truth."

"They could not be bothered to take an hour or ten minutes to find out what happened to us and what we witnessed," Swetnick said of the FBI.

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Swetnick also criticized Republicans' "boldness" for claiming that his accusations were not credible although they did not allow "any investigation to determine their credibility".

"How can they say that the statements were not credible while they were making no effort to find out if they were there or not?" Swetnick asked.

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Swetnick criticized Maine senator Susan Collins for calling the strange charges before the Senate on Friday, even as she said Monday at the Portland Press Herald that she wanted the FBI investigation specifically examines Swetnick's claims.

"How could she have known?" Said Swetnick. "She's never done anything to find out – let's be clear: Susan Collins does not deserve to represent women in the US Senate."

Swetnick wrote that "every American should be outraged" about how she and others who have come forward have been "treated and ashamed".

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"And remember – next time it could be your wife, your daughter, your mother, your girlfriend or your sister." Would you like her to be treated the same? "

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