Attorney Michael Avenatti represents Julie Swetnick, who says she saw Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “drink excessively and engage in highly inappropriate conduct with girls and not taking ‘No’ for an answer.” | Amanda Lee Myers/AP photo kavanaugh confirmation Avenatti on Kavanaugh’s accusers: ‘They're not all lying. It's impossible’

Michael Avenatti, the attorney who represents one of the women alleging sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, dismissed theories of a grand conspiracy involving all of his accusers to detail Kavanaugh's confirmation, telling ABC News that it is "impossible" that all of the women are lying.

“All of these women cannot be lying. It doesn't make any sense. They didn't all sit down in some secret meeting at a Starbucks somewhere and hatch this grand plan. They're not all lying. It's impossible,” Avenatti said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”


Avenatti is representing Julie Swetnick, who claims to have witnessed Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge “drink excessively and engage in highly inappropriate conduct with girls and not taking ‘No’ for an answer.” Swetnick said in a sworn statement that she attended house parties in 1981-1983 with Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, accusing Kavanaugh of spiking drinks with drugs at parties.

Swetnick also alleged that Kavanaugh and Judge organized and took part in the gang rape of women at parties she attended. Kavanaugh has denied all of the allegations against him, calling Swetnick's accusations "ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone."

Kavanaugh will testify Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding allegations brought by Christine Blasey Ford, who claims that the Supreme Court nominee drunkenly pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party in Maryland when the two were in high school. Ford will also offer testimony.

Thus far, Ford is the only Kavanaugh accuser scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has scheduled a vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation for Friday.

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Avenatti said Thursday on "Good Morning America" that his client is willing to take a polygraph test, if Kavanaugh will take one, and would testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He also called for the FBI to investigate the claims of sexual assault, a step Republicans and the White House have shot down over the objection of Democrats.

“This is a sham investigation. It's no investigation at all,” Avenatti said. “Why won't they allow her to testify in front of the committee?”

Avenatti has grown increasingly prominent in political circles in recent months, first for his role as the attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president and his longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to be released from a nondisclosure agreement related to a one-night sexual affair that she claims to have had with the president. Avenatti has also publicly flirted with the possibility of running for president in 2020, making high-profile visits to Iowa and New Hampshire.