Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) just crossed the line from being a tool for the extremist right to being one of them. She's using conspiracy theories manufactured by Alex Jones against Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of attacking her when they were in high school.
Here she is commenting on a page from Kavanaugh's yearbook demonstrating that he was absolutely no choir boy at the time Ford alleges he attacked her. "I don't know what many of the references mean," she says, playing dumb. Then she does it.
"There are rumors—there are so many rumors—that there are issues with Christine Ford's yearbook as well. I don't know whether that's accurate or not accurate. I don't know what to make of someone's high school yearbook."Rumors, so many rumors. Manufactured by Alex Jones "who baselessly identified a photo of a girl wearing a skirt as Ford in order to claim she was promiscuous in high school—as though such a claim would in any way excuse or negate sexual assault."
Jones and Infowars have all these pictures with faces blacked out, with just one innocuous picture that actually is identifiable as Ford. It's Alex Jones and it's a horrific conspiracy theory, and Susan Collins is repeating it.
The people of Maine need to call her on this. Directly. Every day. At her office numbers: (207) 622-8414, (207) 945-0417, (207) 283-1101, (207) 493-7873, (207) 784-6969, (207) 780-3575, (202) 224-2523. But be polite. And maybe record your messages to show how polite you are, and provide those to the local media.
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