Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that every one of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick’s claims should be investigated by the FBI for possible perjury after she appeared to walk back her sworn statements in an interview Monday night.
Dershowitz called Swetnick the “most important subject” of the FBI investigation into allegations against Kavanaugh, claiming that women have been able to lie or falsely accuse men and “get away with it. They don’t go to prison.” Dershowitz said that President Trump was “absolutely right” in his comments on Tuesday when the president said it is a “very scary time for young men in America.” Dershowitz said that “young men” and “young women” were vulnerable to “too many false accusations of sexual assault.”
Swetnick is represented by Michael Avenatti, who also represents porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Trump. Dershowitz claims to have asked Avenatti to waive “lawyer-client privilege” so that the FBI could potentially get to the bottom of Swetnick’s story and even try to find out if Avenatti helped Swetnick fabricate parts of her statement.
“This becomes a very important educational moment,” Dershowitz said. “Because we have to teach the women of the world and the men of the world that there is no genetically-linked aspect of telling the truth. That women make up stories out of whole cloth about alleged events that never occurred and that’s why it’s so important.”
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center puts the rate of false allegations of sexual assault at between 2 and 10 percent.
Kavanaugh, who testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week about California professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation he sexually assaulted her while the two were in high school, has denied the allegations of sexual misconduct.
