The bullshit in this comment is astounding. Christine Ford has no credibility issues at all. Even the right can't deny that.
Christine Blasey Ford's changing Kavanaugh assault story leaves her short on credibility
When Christine Blasey Ford testified last week before the Judiciary Committee, America witnessed a haunted woman recounting a devastating trauma. But putting aside Fords emotional performance and focusing instead on the professors testimony reveals numerous inconsistencies in her narrative that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her.
As a sex-crimes prosecutor, Republican questioner Rachel Mitchell is well-positioned to know it when she sees it. But rather than see Ford as a victim of sexual abuse by Kavanaugh, Mitchell saw her as a witness lacking in credibility. And this conclusion comes from an expert who knows that there are many reasons victims delay reporting sexual abuse. Mitchell also recognized that victims may legitimately not remember certain details related to an attack.
But the problem for Ford is not that she doesnt remember everything: It is that everything she remembers changes at her convenience.
First, Fords testimony that the assault occurred in the summer of 1982, when just 15, conflicted with both her therapists notes and the text message Ford sent to the Washington Post. According to reporter Emma Brown, Ford claimed she had been assaulted in the mid-1980s; and the therapists notes stated Ford had been the victim of an attempted rape in her late teens. But by that time, Kavanaugh was attending Yale, so Fords recasting of the attack to the summer of 1982 is suspect.
Ford's story changed in key ways
Fords retelling of the alleged sexual assault also included several conflicting accounts of the number of individuals at the gathering. The therapists notes stated that four boys had attempted to rape Ford. (Ford claims her therapist confused the total number of boys at the party with the number of boys who had attacked her.)
Later, in her July letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Ford again placed the number of individuals at the party at five, stating the gathering included her and four other individuals. But Ford then identified the four by name, and that group included three boys and one girl. And finally, during her Senate testimony, Ford unequivocally stated that there were four boys I remember specifically being there, in addition to her friend Leland Keyser.
Another significant change in the scenario came when Ford testified about the location of the party. She had originally told the Washington Post that the attack took place at a house not far from the country club. Yet, when Mitchell revealed a map of the relevant locations and reminded Ford that she had described the attack as having occurred near the country club, Ford backtracked: I would describe [the house] as it's somewhere between my house and the country club in that vicinity thats shown in your picture. Ford added that the country club was a 20-minute drive from her home.