Aunt Lydia Collins fell for the 'someone else did it' bs that Bart O'Kavy may have created himself [View all]

[deminks]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/susan-collins-brett-kavanaugh-assault-ford/

Appearing on CNN this morning Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that she believes that Christine Blasey Ford was sexually assaulted—just not by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant. I do believe that she was assaulted. I don’t know by whom, and I’m not certain when, but I do not believe he was the assailant,” Collins told Dana Bash on State of the Union. The Maine senator came on the program to explain why she had voted to confirm Kavanaugh in spite of Ford’s allegation that he had sexually assaulted her when they he was a teenager.

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The notion that Ford misremembers what exactly happened to her 37 years ago—including who attacked her and where and when it occurred—has become a popular talking point among Kavanaugh’s conservative backers. The theory took hold following a series of tweets (since deleted) by Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in which he spun out a scenario in which Ford was assaulted by a boy who resembled Kavanaugh. In response, Ford said, “There is zero chance that I would confuse them.”

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In fact, Whelan withdrew his little story and apologized for it, mostly because they tried to identify falsely another classmate as the actual attacker. It still made it to the GrOPer talking points/lies.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/21/17886430/brett-kavanaugh-news-ed-whelan-trump