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Friend Rejects Claim That Blasey Ford Coached Her On Taking Polygraph Test

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in prior to giving testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in prior to giving testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washi... WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in prior to giving testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. MORE LESS
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Monica McLean has denied professor Christine Blasey Ford’s ex-boyfriend’s claim that she was coached by Blasey Ford, her friend, before she took a polygraph test years ago.

The ex-boyfriend’s claim (he has chosen to remain anonymous) was cited in Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) Tuesday letter demanding more evidence from Blasey Ford’s lawyers.

“I have never had Christine Blasey Ford, or anybody else, prepare me, or provide any other type of assistance whatsoever in connection with any polygraph exam I have taken at anytime,” McLean said in a statement, according to the Wall Street Journal.

During her testimony before the committee, Blasey Ford said that she had never given anyone “tips” or “advice” on how to take a polygraph test.

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