Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh didn’t come out of thin air in 2018, but Senate Republicans don’t want to hear about that. Although Republicans are not calling witnesses, Ford’s attorneys have sent them declarations from four people who Ford told about her experience, including her husband.
In her declaration, Adela Gildo-Mazzon said Ford told her about the alleged assault during a June 2013 meal at a restaurant in Mountain View, California, and contacted Ford’s attorneys on Sept. 16 to tell them Ford had confided in her five years ago.
“During our meal, Christine was visibly upset, so I asked her what was going on,” Gildo-Mazzon said in her declaration. “Christine told me she had been having a hard day because she was thinking about an assault she experienced when she was much younger. She said she had been almost raped by someone who was now a federal judge. She told me she had been trapped in a room with two drunken guys, and that she had escaped, ran away and hid.”
Another friend says Ford described her experience with Kavanaugh in response to a discussion of Stanford rapist Brock Turner, while a third says that after she wrote on social media about her own experience of sexual assault, Ford approached her and “told me that when she was a young teen, she had been sexually assaulted by an older teen,” who she identified as a federal judge. In addition, Ford told her husband that she had a history of sexual assault “around the time we got married,” and went into more detail in couple’s therapy in 2012.
Republicans want the public to believe that Ford just suddenly made this up for political reasons in 2018, but she’s been talking about it for years, with the fact that Kavanaugh had become a federal judge clearly weighing in her thinking. Because of course if you found out that the drunk football player who attacked you in high school had become a federal judge, it would feel like a significant fact about the judiciary and the justice system as you discussed things like Brock Turner’s sentence and other women's experiences of sexual assault.
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