{"id":105657,"date":"2018-10-06T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=105657"},"modified":"2018-10-06T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:05:26","slug":"liberals-turn-on-themselves-democrats-tear-into-porn-lawyer-who-sabotaged-kavanaugh-character-assassination-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=105657","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Turn On Themselves, Democrats Tear Into Porn Lawyer Who Sabotaged Kavanaugh Character Assassination Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Michael Avenatti Turns Radioactive As Liberals Blame Porn Lawyer For Kavanaugh Confirmation<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-Avenatti-via-Mario-TamaGetty-Images-e1527860337575_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105658\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-Avenatti-via-Mario-TamaGetty-Images-e1527860337575_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-Avenatti-via-Mario-TamaGetty-Images-e1527860337575_0.jpg 890w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-Avenatti-via-Mario-TamaGetty-Images-e1527860337575_0-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-Avenatti-via-Mario-TamaGetty-Images-e1527860337575_0-768x401.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Following Friday&#8217;s announcement by GOP swing voter Sen. 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.<\/p>\n<p>In a fiery speech announcing her decision,\u00a0Collins ripped unsupported claims by Avenatti&#8217;s client, Julie Swetnick,\u00a0that Kavanaugh facilitated a Cosby-esque\u00a0&#8220;gang rape&#8221; operation while in high school.<\/p>\n<blockquote><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\u00a0<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>\u00a0<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><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid317471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lR3WajO-WwI?start=1609\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a result of Collins calling Swetnick&#8217;s claim,\u00a0<strong>liberals\u00a0began to pile onto Avenatti &#8211; blaming him for Kavanaugh&#8217;s impending Saturday confirmation, while conservative pundits poked fun.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" 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>&mdash; GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greggutfeld\/status\/1048357246252539905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As a result of Collins calling Swetnick&#8217;s claim,\u00a0<strong>liberals\u00a0began to pile onto Avenatti &#8211; blaming him for Kavanaugh&#8217;s impending Saturday confirmation, while conservative pundits poked fun.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>As\u00a0<em>CNN<\/em>\u00a0now reports, Senate Democrats are also jumping on the anti-Avenatti bandwagon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A host of Democratic senators and senior aides told CNN that the allegations from Avenatti&#8217;s client gave the GOP an opening to conflate &#8212; and dismiss &#8212; all the allegations in one broad brush.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well you know at some point there were a lot of folks coming forward making all sorts of accusations,&#8221; said Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, when asked about the allegations raised by Avenatti and his client. &#8220;It turns it into a circus atmosphere and certainly that&#8217;s not where we should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Avenatti was helpful, Peters said: &#8220;I think we should have focused on the serious allegations that certainly appeared very credible to me that would be our best course of action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Privately, the assessment was far more scathing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democrats and the country would have been better off if Mr. Avenatti spent his time on his Iowa vanity project rather than meddling in Supreme Court fights,&#8221; a senior Senate Democratic aide fumed, referring to Avenatti toying with the idea of seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. &#8220;His involvement set us back, absolutely.&#8221; &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/06\/politics\/democrats-avenatti-swetnick-accusation\/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&amp;utm_content=2018-10-06T19%3A00%3A04&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=image\">CNN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One can imagine that Avenatti vs. Trump in 2020 is no longer in the cards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-06\/michael-avenatti-turns-radioactive-liberals-blame-porn-lawyer-kavanaugh-nomination\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-06\/michael-avenatti-turns-radioactive-liberals-blame-porn-lawyer-kavanaugh-nomination<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Avenatti Turns Radioactive As Liberals Blame Porn Lawyer For Kavanaugh Confirmation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}