Avenatti's witness

Avenatti claim[s] to represent someone he described as both a "witness and a victim," and who "will be coming forward in the next 48 hours" to lob some new charges at the embattled nominee—who, judging by his performance with Martha McCallum on Fox Monday night, is currently operating on fewer circuits than he once was. Judging from letters that Avenatti has sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is likely that this "witness and victim" will accuse Kavanaugh of being part of a high-school clique that would try to incapacitate women with drink and then rape them en masse.

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I'm still wary of how hot a presence Avenatti is, and how painfully self-promoting he appears. If the Republicans really were on their game, they'd find a way to turn him into a caricature with which they could discredit the entire opposition to Kavanaugh. But the Republicans are not on their game right now. Catch them in an unguarded moment, and some of them are extremely disturbed that Kavanaugh has so many land mines buried in his past. Losing this nomination fight could be catastrophic in the midterm elections. Winning it could be worse. And they know, in case we forgot to mention it, that Michael Avenatti has yet to be wrong.

  Charlie Pierce

Rape them en masse, as a group of women, or gang rape them individually? I guess we'll wait and see. We don't have long.