An email chain from late June 2018
Corroborating what she told him in 2016.
just days before he was nominated
Almost two weeks before. Email chain was from June 29nth; Trump nominated Kavanaugh on July 9th, so a total of 11 days prior, but of course there would be no possible way for Ford to have known Trump would actually choose Kavanaugh at all, no matter what was speculated upon in the press.
and when he was well known to be on Trump's
short list.
Your point? Are you seriously suggesting that in 2016 she decided to falsely accuse Kavanaugh just in case at some point he ever ended up as a nominee to the Supreme Court and so told her friend about being raped in high school (but did not yet reveal the name of the fake rapist), and then, when the day came
two years later when she saw he was not a nominee, but merely one of many other
possible nominees, she took that opportunity to
finally spring her trap
to her friend in an email?
Oh my christ you are:
So CBF is a Democrat and knows Kav from high school. She gets an idea - aha. She can falsely accuse him of rape and derail his nomination.
In 2016. We're setting aside the fact that she told others far earlier about being raped by someone who was at that time a Federal Judge for the sake of extending you so much more rope.
And, of course, her husband (and, presumably, their couples therapist), was
explicitly told it was Brett Kavanaugh and the details of her assault were discussed repeatedly in their sessions, over several years but starting in 2012:
That's still decades removed from the alleged events
So?
, and when Kav was already a federal appeals court judge on the DC circuit who might be nominated for SCOTUS some day. So she might have started hatching her plan then.
So, now, you are seriously arguing that in 2012, Ford decided that
one day in the future she would falsely accuse Kavanaugh of raping her just in case he be nominated to the SCOTUS, so she concocts an even more elaborate plan to lay down the basis for that false accusation by telling just her husband--and their therapist--that Kavanaugh had raped her in high school.
And your presumption that she also told the therapist is just that.
No, it's part of her husband's statement:
In his declaration, Russell Ford says his wife first shared the details of a sexual assault during a couple’s therapy session in 2012.
“I remember her saying that the attacker’s name was Brett Kavanaugh, that he was a successful lawyer who had grown up in Christine’s home town, and that he was well-known in the Washington, D.C. community,” Russell Ford says. “In the years following the therapy session, we spoke a number of times about how the assault affected her.”
Therapy sessions are not held alone. They are held
with a therapist. That is why they are called "therapy sessions."
Of course, him not being a disinterested party, he could be lying about her telling him anything in 2012.
So, NOW you are saying that Ford is lying AND her husband is lying AND in that lie has stupidly mentioned that Ford made this accusation in a couple's therapy session, thus providing a
third party (the therapist) as someone who could, upon being investigated/subpoenaed, reveal that both Ford's were lying and that no such mention of Kavanaugh in their session occurred, nor did they at any point subsequent to that session mention Kavanaugh in subsequent sessions.
Before you say something else asinine, no, there would not be any client confidentiality the therapist could invoke. Therapists are NOT allowed to invoke client confidentiality if their clients have committed a crime, such as conspiring to falsely accuse someone of being a rapist.
And/or, if there never was any therapy session, the husband's false statement would be even easier revealed once investigated and asked to provide the name of the non-existent therapist.
Which is why I want to see much more solid evidence than this to justify denying somebody the nomination.
So, you mean, like a criminal investigation by the FBI. Too bad one was never conducted at Trump's direction.
Let's recap. You are seriously arguing that, (a) her husband is lying about an easily verifiable couple's therapy session from 2012 and (b) Ford decided in 2016 to lay down the groundwork for being able to ONE DAY falsely accuse a completely innocent kid she knew in high school of raping her, on the outside chance that some day that kid would be on a short list to be nominated to the SCOTUS.
This is the hill you're willing to die on. I want to make perfectly clear you understand the conditions
you are laying out
for yourself to be judged upon by all of us.
