Courageous testimony
Ford shares chilling details at hearing
Christine Blasey Ford has gotten death threats.
She’s been living in hiding with her husband and two sons.
She took a lie detector test.
She asked for an FBI investigation.
And in today’s age of social media, the California professor could be harassed for the rest of her life.
So why on earth would Ford lie to the world about being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh?
She wouldn’t.
“I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified,” she testified. “I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school.”
Ford has nothing to gain and everything to lose. Her teary, trembling and intense testimony was in stark comparison to Kavanaugh, who unleashed angry tirades and Democratic political conspiracy theories while vehemently denying the allegations.
When Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, asked Kavanaugh whether he ever got blackout drunk, Kavanaugh snapped: “Have you?”
Ford described the attack in chilling detail. She said she was 15 and at a small house gathering in 1982 in suburban Maryland when she was pushed into an upstairs bedroom. Kavanaugh and his pal, Mark Judge, she said, locked the door. She was pushed onto the bed and Kavanaugh got on top of her, she said, running his hands over her body and grinding into her. Kavanaugh tried to take off her clothes but had a hard time because he was so drunk, she testified, and she believed he was going to rape her.
She said she tried to yell for help but Kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth. She thought Kavanaugh was going to kill her. A couple times, she said, she made eye contact with Judge and thought he was going to help her but he didn’t.
She was able to escape after Judge jumped on the bed, knocking them over, she said.
When Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, asked Ford about her strongest memory from that night, Ford replied, “Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense.”
Why Judge hasn’t been called to testify before the Judiciary Committee is a big mystery to me.
Ford said she was “100 percent” positive that it was Kavanaugh who attacked her.
Kavanaugh didn’t even bother to watch Ford’s testimony. He said he believes Ford was sexually assaulted at some point by someone else.
The judge can boast about all the female law clerks he’s hired and all the women who support him, but unless there’s an investigation, it comes down to he said, she said.
I believe Ford.