Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh rejected a new allegation of sexual misconduct from a third woman dating back to his high school days, and said the claims are “from the Twilight Zone.”
“This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone. I don’t know who this is and this never happened,” Kavanaugh said in a statement the White House released Wednesday.
Kavanaugh, nominated to the Supreme Court by President Trump in July, is facing allegations of sexual misconduct from three different women, the latest of which was revealed by lawyer Michael Avenatti on Wednesday.
Avenatti used Twitter to share a sworn affidavit from his client, Julie Swetnick, who claimed she saw Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge drink “excessively” and “engage in highly inappropriate conduct” while attending house parties in the Washington, D.C., area in the early 1980s.
Swetnick, a federal official, said the behavior included “being overly aggressive with girls and not taking ‘no’ for an answer.” She also accused Kavanaugh and Judge of being present when she was gang-raped around 1982, and wrote in her affidavit she told at least two other unnamed people of the incident.
[Also read: Kavanaugh became ‘aggressive,’ ‘belligerent’ when drinking, says Yale freshman roommate]
The latest allegation from Swetnick comes just one day before Kavanaugh is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss an allegation of sexual assault lodged against him by Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor.
Ford, who is also expected to testify, claimed the incident with Kavanaugh occurred in 1982, when the two were in high school.
