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Kavanaugh accuser breaks silence over sexual misconduct allegations
The Hill ^ | 09/16/18 | Michael Burke

Posted on 09/16/2018 2:58:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct has identified herself and is speaking publicly about her allegations against Kavanaugh for the first time, according to a Washington Post investigation published Sunday.

Christine Blasey Ford, now a 51-year-old professor at Palo Alto University in California, described an incident between the two in high school, alleging that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed one summer in the 1980s and forced himself on her.

Ford told the Post that Kavanaugh "groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it."

She also said Kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth when she attempted to scream for help.

“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” Ford said. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”

Kavanaugh last week denied the allegations, which were first reported last week.

"I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation,” Kavanaugh said in a statement provided by the White House. “I did not do this back in high school or at any time.”

The White House reportedly provided the same statement to the Post on Sunday.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who had previously learned of Ford's allegations in July but didn't disclose her knowledge of them publicly, said Sunday in a statement that she supported Ford's decision to share her story.

"And now that she has, it is in the hands of the FBI to conduct an investigation," Feinstein added. "This should happen before the Senate moves forward on this nominee."

Senate Democrats said last week that they had referred the incident to the FBI, which confirmed that it received the letter detailing Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh on Wednesday night.

“Upon receipt of the information on the night of September 12, we included it as part of Judge Kavanaugh’s background file, as per the standard process,” an FBI spokesperson told The Hill on Thursday.

Ford told the Post that Kavanaugh and a friend, Mark Judge, were both “stumbling drunk” when they took her into a bedroom while they were at a house in suburban Maryland. Judge and Kavanaugh were both students at Georgetown Preparatory School.

Judge and Kavanaugh pushed Ford onto a bed in the room, where rock-and-roll music was playing at a high volume, Ford alleged.

According to her, Kavanaugh “held her down with the weight of his body and fumbled with her clothes, seemingly hindered by his intoxication,” the Post reported. She added that both of the boys were laughing “maniacally.”

Ford was able to escape when Judge jumped on top of her and Kavanaugh and broke them up, she said. She said she then locked herself in a nearby bathroom for five or 10 minutes before leaving the house.

Judge told The Weekly Standard last week that the allegation against Kavanaugh is "just absolutely nuts."

Ford told the Post that she hasn’t spoken with Kavanaugh since the alleged incident and didn’t tell anyone about it until 2012, when she discussed it in couple’s therapy.

The Post reviewed the therapist’s notes, which reportedly don’t mention Kavanaugh’s name but say that Ford was attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” who would become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.”

Republicans in the Senate have said they expect Kavanaugh to be confirmed to the Supreme Court before October.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: again; christineford; kavanaugh; kavanaughaccuser; theshill
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1 posted on 09/16/2018 2:58:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

I smell a book deal!


2 posted on 09/16/2018 2:59:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: yesthatjallen

This stinks to high Heaven.


3 posted on 09/16/2018 3:01:52 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Is that what I smell? P.U.


4 posted on 09/16/2018 3:02:17 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (S)
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To: yesthatjallen

Right on schedule.


5 posted on 09/16/2018 3:02:31 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen

Guess it worked with Roy Moore, so they’ll just keep using it again and again til they come up with a better plan.


6 posted on 09/16/2018 3:02:34 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: yesthatjallen

A drunken teen groped by another drunken teen 35 years ago. This should be laughed at, it’s so absurd & unimportant. This has happened more than 100 million times in the last 35 years.


7 posted on 09/16/2018 3:04:33 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Gay State Conservative

I smell instant notoriety.

Ellen, the Spew, CNN, (as you mentioned) book deals...

And she can be a hero to all the Leftist who want to turn this nation into the USSR, Venezuela, NAZI Germany, or one of a number of other very fine nations, if you like millions of carcasses laying around.


8 posted on 09/16/2018 3:05:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: yesthatjallen

40 years ago, FBI says go pound sand, so, enhance it a little more, FBI says go pound sand. Next “Kavinaugh put a knife to my throat and tried to rape me” Next. Kavinaugh killed me and tried to rape me. Damn, got to get the FBIs attention over here.


9 posted on 09/16/2018 3:05:55 PM PDT by fish hawk (MACA Make America Christian Again)
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To: yesthatjallen

I regret that I will not accept a nomination to the Supreme Court . . .

I did some really goofy stuff in second grade.


10 posted on 09/16/2018 3:06:14 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: yesthatjallen

oh SURE!
who’s gonna believe THAT?
after all these years too

and from high school? 30 years ago?

Bullsheit! for all it would matter now


11 posted on 09/16/2018 3:06:29 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: yesthatjallen

Mainstream media is all over it. I hope Senate Republicans tell them to pound sand.


12 posted on 09/16/2018 3:07:17 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Virtually every Congress Critter has done infinitely worse than what is alleged, while adults.


13 posted on 09/16/2018 3:09:26 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: yesthatjallen

This is simply an Anita Hill 2.0 attempt and will not work!!!


14 posted on 09/16/2018 3:10:08 PM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Her “university” gives. BS in Psychology and Social Action.

Can’t make this stuff up.


15 posted on 09/16/2018 3:10:15 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

She was wearing a bathing suit with some other covering, underage and drinking. She doesn’t remember where she was, how she got there or why she was there. (I mean).... Like ugh, we are supposed to believe things she claims she remembers.


16 posted on 09/16/2018 3:11:25 PM PDT by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: yesthatjallen

Id love to know how much Soros and company are paying her to spew such utter LIES. Lets see she is a far left loon who is a Bernie Sanders supporter, signed a letter demanding that President Trump stop separating children from their smugglers..and has an attorney who is part of the “Resistance” gee, I can smell the bull sh*t a mile away


17 posted on 09/16/2018 3:11:42 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: madprof98

Roy Moore didnt defend himself well sorry to say..but this will NOT work with Kavanaugh..everyone knows what is going on here..he WILL be confirmed and the left knows it..they just want to tarnish him before he goes on the bench


18 posted on 09/16/2018 3:12:43 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yesthatjallen

Bill Clinton is a rapist and y’all were OK with that.

You know, what a man does in his personal life is no reflection on his ability to serve in public office.

Remember?


19 posted on 09/16/2018 3:16:53 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Lagmeister

As a teen, I regularly saw things like this. Probably >80% of guys would try to do this in this situation.


20 posted on 09/16/2018 3:17:41 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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