The pages from Brett Kavanaugh’s summer 1982 calendar intended to exonerate him from Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations may in fact cast further suspicion on him in not one but two ways. We already knew that the calendar included an entry for “skis” with the same people Ford had named as being at the party at which she detailed Kavanaugh and Mark Judge assaulting her. It turns out, the calendar combines with Judge’s memoir of his alcoholism to place the possible dates of a key detail Ford offered up in her Thursday-morning testimony.
Ford said that six to eight weeks after the assault, she saw Judge working at Safeway. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump looked at Judge’s memoir, which said he worked at Safeway the summer before senior year—which would have been 1982—“to raise money for football camp.”
Football camp started Aug. 22, 1982. Judge worked for a grocery store for several weeks before that camp, meaning that he probably worked there for a period in late July to mid-August.
Ford said she saw him working at a store between six and eight weeks after the alleged incident. The end of that period — obviously just an estimated window — could overlap with any point of Judge’s tenure at the store. The alleged incident could have been six weeks before Aug. 22, for example, or it could have been eight weeks before the end of July.
And look! That window of time includes “skis” at Timmy’s.
It’s not a home run, and an FBI investigation might help nail things down a little more securely, but it sure is interesting how things keep coming together to make Ford’s account, despite her admitted memory gaps, look more solid.
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