Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denied an allegation presented by lawyer Michael Avenatti that he helped facilitate the gang rape of women in high school, calling the claim “totally false and outrageous.”
“I’ve never done any such thing, known about any such thing,” Kavanaugh told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum during an interview that aired Monday evening. “When I was in high school — and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools.”
Avenatti, who is representing former porn actress Stormy Daniels in a legal battle against President Trump, claimed he has evidence that Kavanaugh, his former classmate Mark Judge, and others would “participate in the targeting of women with alcohol/drugs in order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang rape them” during the early 1980s.
Avenatti said he knows of numerous witnesses that will corroborate that information, and urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to call them to testify.
Kavanaugh acknowledged parties did take place when he was in high school at Georgetown Preparatory School in Maryland and noted that there was drinking that occurred, as the drinking age was 18.
“And yes, people might have had too many beers on occasion and people generally in high school — I think all of us have probably done things we look back on in high school and regret or cringe a bit, but that’s not what we’re talking about,” he said. “We’re talking about an allegation of sexual assault. I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone.”
Kavanaugh is facing allegations from two women of sexual misconduct.
The first, Christine Blasey Ford, accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982, when the two were in high school.
The second, Deborah Ramirez, said Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a drunken party at Yale University, shoved his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it when she pushed him away from her.
Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the allegations, saying repeatedly in his interview with Fox News that he “never sexually assaulted anyone.”
