WASHINGTON – Before releasing a signed statement from his client, Julie Swetnick, in which she alleged witnessing Supreme Court nominee engage in "abusive behavior" toward girls when he was in high school, attorney Michael Avenatti confronted an online rumor that the alleged third Kavanaugh accuser was not real and that he was the victim of a hoax.

"This is completely false," Avenatti said Tuesday on Twitter in reference to the claim that he had been duped. "It never happened; it is a total fabrication. None of it is true. The right must be very worried. They should be."

The attorney made his Twitter account private for about 24 hours because, he said, "the bots and Trump trolls are out in force." He was account was made public again Wednesday morning.

On Monday, Avenatti, who represents porn actress Stormy Daniels in her case against President Donald Trump, announced he represents a woman who is a former employee of both the State Department and the U.S. Mint with information about how Kavanaugh and his high school classmate Mark Judge "behaved at countless house parties." But he did not make her identity public until Wednesday,

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The rumor that Swetnick did not really exist and was a hoax began with a post by a user on the nefarious troll den known as 4Chan. The user claimed that the alleged accuser was invented by someone who had his girlfriend call Avenatii on a "burner phone." The claim gained steam on social media.

Avenatti dismissed it as "crazy."

"This is just crazy that somebody can just tweet something out like this, or post it, and people just take it as truth," he told Politico. "It’s crazy."

Swetnick alleges that she witnessed Kavanaugh and his classmate Mark Judge try to get teenage girls "inebriated and disoriented so they could then be 'gang raped."

The revelation of Avenatti's client comes as Kavanaugh faces sexual assault allegations from two other women, Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez. Kavanaugh and Ford are set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

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Per Politico, Avenatti said he had made the determination that his client was "100 percent credible well before Sunday night."

"We’ve received over 3,000 inquiries in the last six months from people with all kinds of crazy stories and fabrications," he said. "I’ve heard it all. I’ve seen it all. Like we don’t vet clients. Give me a break."

He said the client was real and that he still expects her to come forward.

Avenatti said Monday that his client would come forward within 48 hours.

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