In Detailed Letters, Friends Recall Years-Ago Conversations With Blasey Ford About Alleged Attack

on September 20, 2018 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 20: U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) holds a letter signed by Holton-Arms alumnae in support of Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sex... WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 20: U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) holds a letter signed by Holton-Arms alumnae in support of Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault at a high school party about 35 years ago, September 20, 2018 at Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh is scheduled to appear again before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Monday to respond to the allegation of sexual assault by accuser Christine Blasey Ford, who was also invited to testify, but has requested an FBI investigation first, that have endangered his nomination to the Supreme Court. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Three of professor Christine Blasey Ford’s friends and her husband have given her attorneys detailed letters describing the date, time, place and context of conversations they had with her when she told them about her alleged sexual assault at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

All four of the conversations, according to the writers’ memories, took place before President Donald Trump announced Kavanaugh as his nominee.

Blasey Ford told her loved ones about the alleged trauma in organic ways. Once was a friend noticing that she looked upset over a 2013 meal and asking more. Once was part of a discussion about the sentencing of Stanford student Brock Turner in 2016. Once was in solidarity with a friend who had posted about her own sexual assault in 2017. And once was in couple’s therapy with her husband in 2012.

One of the conversations is preserved, in part, in an email exchange, when a friend followed up on a conversation, asking the name of the alleged attacker in the days after Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy’s resignation.

She reportedly replied simply: “Brett Kavanaugh.”

Read the letters here:

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  1. Avatar for davidn davidn says:

    Of course she told people years-ago, because Democrats typically time travel when creating their monolithic conspiracies.

    A version of the Tardis that the deep-state black science ops loaned them.

  2. Let’s see what Avenatti drops on the plate today with another accuser. He’s got a pretty good track record of following through on his claims.

  3. timewarp pipeline back to secure future Soros cash. Makes perfect sense.

  4. Avatar for lb22 lb22 says:

    If Democrats were able to go back to the sixties and place a birth announcement in a Hawaiian paper, they can easily go back a few years for this.

  5. If all these supposed “friends” were REALLY told years ago, in confidence, of these events, I have no doubt - NO doubt - that they would have immediately reported them to the FBI. Why are we just learning all this now, hmmmmmm???

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