Richard Vinneccy, an ex-boyfriend of Julie Swetnick (pictured above left), told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Monday night in an exclusive interview that his former girlfriend “never once” mentioned gang rape allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh (above right).
“Everything that came out of her mouth was just exaggerations. And she never mentioned that to me at all, and that was something that I was very surprised to hear, actually. I was very surprised to actually see her making these accusations because she had never, ever mentioned that to me at all,” Vinneccy said on “The Ingraham Angle” about the woman he dated off and on for seven years. (See a video clip of the interview at the bottom of this article.)
Swetnick was the third woman to come forward during the final days of Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation process and publicly accuse him of sexual assault. Christine Blasey Ford was the first woman; Deborah Ramirez was the second. Virtually no corroboration of a crime chargeable to Kavanaugh has been presented by any of the three women.
Swetnick wrote in her sworn affidavit that she was raped at one of 10 high school parties in suburban Maryland that she attended around 1982, even though she graduated from high school in 1980, according to The New York Times.
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She alleged that Kavanaugh and Mark Judge would “cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be ‘gang-raped’ in a side room or bedroom by a ‘train’ of numerous boys” at those parties.
Michael Avenatti, attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump, also represents Swetnick.
Kavanaugh denied all of the sexual assault allegations against him in testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary last week. Ford also testified before the committee. FBI officials are now conducting a week-long investigation into the allegations before the full Senate votes on Kavanaugh’s final confirmation.
“At one point, she basically said, ‘you will never, ever see your unborn child alive. I’m just going to go over there and kill you guys.'”
Although Vinneccy initially told Politico last week that he dated Swetnick for four years, he told Ingraham that they dated on and off for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. After breaking up with her in 2001, Vinneccy filed a restraining order against Swetnick in Florida’s Miami-Dade County.
“Right after I broke up with her, she basically called me many times and at one point she basically said, ‘You will never, ever see your unborn child alive. I’m just going to go over there and kill you guys,'” Vinneccy told Ingraham. “And that really scared me a little bit.”
Although Vinneccy filed the restraining order, it was dismissed after he never appeared in court.
“That’s the question that everybody’s asking. And the reason I didn’t [pursue it] is because I knew that I had to see her again. I talked to, at that time, to my family, and we decided not to do anything, not to follow up because I did not want to provoke her,” he said.
“We decided to just leave it alone in the hopes that this will go away, because at that time the only thing that I was concerned about was my family and the well-being of my family. So we decided to change our numbers and move … and right after that we never heard from her again,” Vinneccy added.
Vinneccy, whose mortgage was foreclosed on in 2011 and who filed for bankruptcy in 2014, according to the Miami New Times, claims Swetnick “never once mentioned” to him that she had been sexually assaulted or “gang-raped.”
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“We used to talk about everything, but she never once mentioned that at all,” Vinneccy said. “She never once mentioned this to me at all.”
Vinneccy claimed that he is coming forward now for nonpolitical reasons.
“This has nothing to do with political issues. I mean, I believe I came over here … to basically tell the truth. I think it’s my civil duty to do so, and that’s one of the reasons why I came,” Vinneccy said.
“[Swetnick] was always wanting to be the center of attention. And she always wanted to do something major,” Vinneccy said. “Everything that came out of her mouth was just exaggerations … I was very surprised to actually see her making these accusations because she had never, ever mentioned that to me at all.”
Vinneccy claimed that sometimes, when he and Swetnick would “get into fights,” she would “get right in my face and she would ask me to hit her. I mean, that’s something that is very weird … For any minor issues that we had, she [would] always get into my face. I would just walk away.”
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