Bread and circuses

Julie Swetnick, the third accuser of Kavanaugh to come forward, is going to have her MSNBC interview aired on Sunday.  Appropriately, the program on which it will air is called "The Circus."  According to the current plan, the Judiciary Committee will already have voted by then.

Richard Vinneccy, 63, [an ex-boyfriend of Julie Swetnick] suggested to [Politico on Wednesday] that he has "a lot of facts" to dispute the claims of Julie Swetnick, who is represented by attorney Michael Avenatti and came forward with her claims on Wednesday.

"She’s not credible at all,” he said. “Not at all.”

Vinneccy said he wanted to speak to an attorney before going into more detail about what evidence he has to disprove her claims.

  The Hill

I bet.

Politico reported that Vinneccy filed a restraining order against Swetnick in 2001. He told the news outlet that they dated for four years, and she later threatened to hurt his wife and their baby.

Avenatti told Politico that he did not know whether Swetnick had a restraining order filed against her, but called it irrelevant.

“I am disgusted by the fact that the press is attacking a sexual assault victim,” Avenatti said, according to Politico.

"Complete nonsense.This guy is a fraud," he told The Hill.

If it's true that she threatened harm to his family and he had to get a restraining order, I think that IS relevant. I wonder why Avenatti didn't know whether she had a restraining order. Here I've been thinking he's smart. Wouldn't a smart attorney have checked into client's background on something like this? What a world we have created.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.