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| The accuser speaks. |
Yeah, this is big.
Donald J. Trump and Republicans want to confirm this nominee quickly.
So far I give it an 80% chance of confirmation.
Christine Blasey Ford is going public after Republicans refuse to take the matter seriously. She puts her life in danger now that she came forth.
Ford claims that she was attacked by Kavanaugh and his friend at a party. Kavanaugh was drunk. She claimed that the he pinned her down, covered her mouth and tired to rip off her swimsuit.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) had received a letter from the woman. The senator turned it over to the FBI after the revelations were made. Ford said that she had to come forth because the junk food media and the right wing carnival barkers would dismiss her claims.
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| Brett Kavanaugh is under fire for an allegation of sexual assault. |
The encounter happened in 1982 while she was 15 and he was 17.
Ford said she has not spoken with Kavanaugh since that night. And she told no one at the time what had happened to her. She was terrified, she said, that she would be in trouble if her parents realized she had been at a party where teenagers were drinking, and she worried they might figure it out even if she did not tell them.
“My biggest fear was, do I look like someone just attacked me?” she said. She said she recalled thinking: “I’m not ever telling anyone this. This is nothing, it didn’t happen, and he didn’t rape me.”
Years later, after going through psychotherapy, Ford said, she came to understand the incident as a trauma with lasting impact on her life.
“I think it derailed me substantially for four or five years,” she said. She struggled academically and socially, she said, and was unable to have healthy relationships with men. “I was very ill-equipped to forge those kinds of relationships.”
She also said that in the longer term, it contributed to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms with which she has struggled.
She married her husband in 2002. Early in their relationship, she told him she had been a victim of physical abuse, he said. A decade later, he learned the details of that alleged abuse when the therapist asked her to tell the story, he said.
He said he expects that some people, upon hearing his wife’s account, will believe that Kavanaugh’s high school behavior has no bearing upon his fitness for the nation’s high court. He disagrees.
“I think you look to judges to be the arbiters of right and wrong,” Russell Ford said. “If they don’t have a moral code of their own to determine right from wrong, then that’s a problem. So I think it’s relevant. Supreme Court nominees should be held to a higher standard.”
Kavanaugh denies all the accusations.
Do you believe Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a girl when he was teenager?
Ford is an instructor at Palo Alto Unviersity and spoke about the incident six years ago.
The right wing carnival barkers are going to dismiss it. They're going to bring up Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein in their latest attempt at "whataboutism."
Ford is a registered Democrat.
The right is already claiming that the accuser recanted. They claim she is a political operative. They are saying that it's Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters fault. They believe that the woman is trying to ruin a great judge. They are claiming that 65 women are backing him. They are saying that if this nomination sinks, the Republicans will be energized to vote.
