{"id":380065,"date":"2018-10-07T23:38:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T22:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-michael-avenatti-turns-radioactive-as-liberals-blame-porn-lawyer-for-kavanaugh-confirmation\/"},"modified":"2018-10-07T23:38:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T22:38:20","slug":"prison-planet-com-michael-avenatti-turns-radioactive-as-liberals-blame-porn-lawyer-for-kavanaugh-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-michael-avenatti-turns-radioactive-as-liberals-blame-porn-lawyer-for-kavanaugh-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Michael Avenatti Turns Radioactive As Liberals Blame Porn Lawyer For Kavanaugh Confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Following Friday\u2019s announcement by\u00a0Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) that she would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the left flipped on one of its recent heroes; Michael Avenatti.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a fiery speech announcing her decision,\u00a0Collins ripped unsupported claims by Avenatti\u2019s client, Julie Swetnick,\u00a0that Kavanaugh facilitated a Cosby-esque\u00a0\u201cgang rape\u201d operation while in high school.<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Some of the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh illustrate why the presumption of innocence is so important<\/strong>. I am thinking in particular not of the allegations raised by Professor Ford, but of <strong>the allegation that, when he was a teenager, Judge Kavanaugh drugged multiple girls and used their weakened state to facilitate gang rape<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This outlandish allegation was put forth<\/strong> <strong>without any credible supporting evidence and simply parroted public statements of others<\/strong>. That such an allegation can find its way into the Supreme Court confirmation process is a stark reminder about why the presumption of innocence is so ingrained in our American consciousness. -Sen. Susan Collins<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid955580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lR3WajO-WwI?start=1609\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a result of Collins citing\u00a0Swetnick\u2019s claim,\u00a0<strong>liberals\u00a0began to pile onto Avenatti \u2013 blaming him for Kavanaugh\u2019s impending Saturday confirmation, while conservative pundits poked fun.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Avenatti may be a Republican operative cuz no one could pull off this self-sabotage, unless it was deliberate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greggutfeld\/status\/1048357246252539905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s groping allegation may have been believable \u2013 and enough to derail the nomination, subsequent claims against Kavanaugh likely derailed what little legitimacy Ford had.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins called the Swetnick allegation &#8220;outlandish&#8221; and Kennedy said &#8220;this process changed dramatically when Mr. Avenatti entered the picture.&#8221; Michael Avenatti provided cover for Republicans to confirm Kavanaugh. Nice work, dude. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yOMHyrOqPF\">https:\/\/t.co\/yOMHyrOqPF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robby Soave (@robbysoave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbysoave\/status\/1048326622959620097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THIS is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/michael-avenatti-turns-radioactive-as-liberals-blame-porn-lawyer-for-kavanaugh-confirmation.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Friday\u2019s announcement by\u00a0Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) that she would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the left flipped on one of its recent heroes; Michael Avenatti. In a fiery speech announcing her decision,\u00a0Collins ripped unsupported claims by Avenatti\u2019s client, Julie Swetnick,\u00a0that Kavanaugh facilitated a Cosby-esque\u00a0\u201cgang rape\u201d operation while in high school. 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