I was among those who tried to be gentle with Christine Ford in the early going, though I never took her story at face value. I thought perhaps she was mistaken or misremembering. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt, even as the inconsistencies piled up. Like many supporters of Brett Kavanaugh — and Kavanaugh himself — I theorized that something bad may have happened to her, but she accidentally misconstrued the events in her mind or subconsciously infused Kavanaugh into her memory of the event.
Now I think it is time to stop being so gentle. It is just not possible to avoid the plain reality anymore: Christine Ford is a liar. She may still have been victimized in some form at some point in the past, but it is no longer possible for a rational person to conclude that this is all an innocent case of mistaken identity. Someone is a liar here. And it seems very clear that the liar is Ford.
There's a reason why sex crimes prosector Rachel Mitchell doesn't find Ford's story credible. There are too many gaps and the gaps are too suspicious. It's not just that Ford can't remember — it's that she specifically can't remember any of the details that might prove or disprove her claim. She also can't remember the things she did and said even in the last few months. If her memory really is that terrible, she knows her memory is that terrible, and she knows that she can't therefore be "100 percent certain" that Kavanaugh was the assailant. At a minimum, her claims of certainty are a lie.
But it's more than that. Ford's story has changed to get around Kavanaugh's defenses. These aren't random changes in the narrative. These are targeted and calculated changes. If we are going to absolve her of dishonesty at this point, we must believe that her memory lapses are just coincidentally convenient, and that gaps in her story are coincidentally convenient, and the changes in the story are coincidentally convenient. The coincidences are simply too convenient and too numerous to truly be coincidental.
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More witnesses in Kavanaugh's favor. Timing of it all shows what's going on here. How Collins and Flake, both Republicans, are still undecided shows they have fallen for the old Democrat political game trap. Call or e-mail their offices and state your support for Kavanaugh.
She is a liar. The only traumatic thing she has been through is seeing not enough zeros in her payment from George Soros.
Her affect was exactly like that of my mother who was diagnosed with frontal-temporal dementia in her last years. She clearly has some sort of personality disorder.
She'll be honored at the Oscars.
Sadly, dems are finished using her. She will turn up dead from a plane crash or a freak robbery gone bad. If she can remember which side sent her to the wolves, they will have to get rid of her. She will never be able to live long enough to spend her gofundme hush money.
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