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Lindsey Graham has lit up Twitter today with an impassioned stance on these new Avenatti allegations, saying that people should view them as “highly suspicious” and that he won’t be played “by the Michael Avenattis” of the world.
Graham adds “he won’t participate in a wholesale character assassination that defies credibility.”
From my view, just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it just did.
The lawyer to porn stars has just taken this debacle to an even lower level.
I hope people will be highly suspicious of this allegation presented by Michael Avenatti.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 26, 2018
I have a difficult time believing any person would continue to go to – according to the affidavit – ten parties over a two-year period where women were routinely gang raped and not report it.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 26, 2018
Why would any reasonable person continue to hang around people like this?
Why would any person continue to put their friends and themselves in danger?
Isn’t there some duty to warn others?
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 26, 2018
I very much believe in allowing people to be heard.
But I am not going to be played, and I’m not going to have my intelligence insulted by the Michael Avenattis of the world.
I will not be a participant in wholesale character assassination that defies credibility.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 26, 2018
I completely agree with Graham here and I’m so glad he spoke out with this kind of passion. These new allegations from Avenatti are worse than insulting. They are incredibly damaging to a good man’s reputation.
I hope more Senators speak out like this.
UPDATE: Graham just issued an official statement on these new accusations that are inline with what he said in the tweets above:
UPDATE: Here are more comments from Graham via CNN:
"It smells bad to me, I've been very suspicious" says @LindseyGrahamSC of allegations levied by new accuser Julie Swetnick. "You don't go to 10 parties if you see what she's claiming, you go to the cops…I don't believe Brett Kavanaugh is a serial rapist" https://t.co/F3IPsJVqp1 pic.twitter.com/GaqpakStOs
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) September 26, 2018

