Mitch McConnell owes Michael Avenatti a gift basket
by Becket Adams
| October 05, 2018 05:50 PM
Democrats were right to worry that celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti would gum up their campaign to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Avenatti’s insatiable lust for attention and his predilection for tabloid-style sensationalism helped push Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, into supporting to confirm President Trump’s second nominee to the Supreme Court, as she said herself in her speech.
Prior to announcing her position Friday, Collins listed her many reasons for supporting the judge. Collins also addressed the allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against Kavanaugh, including the charge he tried to rape Christine Blasey Ford when they were both in high school. On that matter, Collins walked a fine line, saying she believes Ford is a genuine victim, but that there is also no evidence to show Kavanaugh is the one who committed the assault.
Collins then turned her attention to Avenatti and his client, Julie Swetnick, who claims she witnessed Kavanaugh organizing gang rapes when he was roughly 15 years old.
For Avenatti, the senator’s tone changed immediately.
“Some of the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh illustrate why the presumption of innocence is so important. I am thinking in particular not of the allegations raised by Prof. Ford, but of the allegation that when he was a teenager, Judge Kavanaugh drugged multiple girls and used their weakened state to facilitate gang rape,†Collins said.
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