My apologies for commenting on this as I know many of you have personal connections to the Court, but it does seem that this assassination attempt wouldn’t have happened if the media correctly reported on what made Christine Blasey Ford almost provably a liar. Her accusations were utterly implausible.
1. Her psychologist notes claim there were four attackers: Not one attacker and one witness who was egging him on but four attackers. Psychologists deal with traumatic incidents multiple times during a course of therapy---it is almost impossible for the therapist to get this wrong. Even in the rare event the psychologist did get the number of attackers wrong, they might confuse four attackers with five: But they would never confuse one attacker with multiple attackers. Those are different kinds of trauma.
2. The therapy notes said that the attack happened in her "late teens" when Kavanaugh would have already been a student at Yale.
3. None of the other people who supposedly attended this party recall such an event happening----no such party, no such house.
4. No one recalls talking to Christine Blasey Ford about the incident until years later.
5. No house like the one described can be found in the area where this supposedly occurred.
6. CBF's timing was inherently suspicious. Why didn't she bring this up when he was being named to the circuit court position?
7. She lied to the Congress about being afraid to fly despite having taken multiple vacations to Hawaii.
8. The double door claim was utterly bizarre---as she had lived in single door apartments for much of the time after the supposed attack.
9. Generally, victims of traumatic events can remember everything that occurred before the victimization and lack a clear memory of the traumatic event itself: CBF's pattern is the exact opposite of the one you normally see in victim---the traumatic event is what she remembers, but not the events leading up to it. What in her psychology leads her to manifest the exact opposite pattern seen in the overwhelming majority of trauma victims?
The media unduly villainized Bret Kavanaugh—and in doing that, the media placed a target on his head. He is, indeed, not the most conservative justice on the court, but he is the most villainized.