“He’s got a fearlessness, and he’s a fighter,” Bannon said Friday on “Real Time With Bill Maher” when asked to assess Democrats who might run against Trump.

“If you want to know why @realDonaldTrump @senatemajldr @ChuckGrassley @FoxNews and other hacks and pundits have stepped up their attacks on me and refuse to allow the FBI to verify my client’s claims, this is a good start,” Avenatti said in his tweet, referring to the attached clip of Bannon.

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Besides Trump, the tweet referred to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).

Swetnick said in a declaration that Kavanaugh was physically abusive toward girls in high school and was at a house party in 1982 where she says she was the victim of a gang rape. She also said she had seen Kavanaugh try to get girls inebriated and disoriented at multiple earlier parties so they could be raped by a “ ‘train’ of numerous boys.”

Kavanaugh has denied all her accusations.

While the FBI has in recent days contacted people relevant to two other accusations of decades-old sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh, the bureau has not contacted Swetnick, according to Avenatti.

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Several Republican senators, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), have said they don’t consider Swetnick’s allegations credible.

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“What reasonable person would go to a party, witness drugging of women, gang-raping of women and go back nine more times?” he said Monday night on Fox News.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), considered a key swing vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination, is pressing the FBI to look into Swetnick’s claims, however.

Asked about Swetnick at a Rose Garden news conference on Monday, Trump said he had heard concerns about her credibility.

“The third one I don’t know much about, but it wouldn’t bother me at all” if she were interviewed, Trump said.

In an earlier tweet Tuesday, Avenatti argued that “Trump and his right wing hacks” should allow Swetnick to provide information to the FBI.

“You would think they would want to discredit us both if the allegations were so untrue,” Avenatti said.