Posted on 09/22/2018 8:10:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, considered moving to another country following Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement earlier this year, her husband says.
“She was like, ‘I can’t deal with this. If he becomes the nominee, then I’m moving to another country. I cannot live in this country if he’s in the Supreme Court,’” her husband, Russell Ford, told The Washington Post for a story published Saturday. “She wanted out.”
Kavanaugh was long considered a potential future nominee for the high court, being on a list Trump released during his 2016 campaign of people he would consider picking for the Supreme Court should a vacancy arise.
Ford's husband told The Post that she was relieved when Trump picked Neil Gorsuch last year to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. But worries resurfaced after Kennedy announced his retirement, he said.
“Her mind-set was, ‘I’ve got this terrible secret...What am I going to do with this secret?’” he said.
Ford’s lawyers have said that her family has faced threats and been forced to leave their house after she went public last Sunday with allegations that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her clothes during a high school party in the early 1980s when both were teenagers.
The allegations have upended the confirmation process for Kavanaugh and Ford is in negotiations with the Senate Judiciary Committee to arrange her public testimony.
She initially expressed openness to testifying Monday, but reneged, saying she wanted the FBI to investigate her claims first. Her lawyer later proposed a testimony for next Thursday if she could testify after Kavanaugh, he would not be in the same room as her and she would only be questioned by members of the committee.
The Judiciary Committee has rejected several of her requests while accepting others. Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) late Friday gave Ford more time to decide whether she would testify next Wednesday as part of a counter-offer from Republicans that would involve her testifying first.
Ford has until 2:30 Saturday afternoon to respond to the GOP counter-offer.
I’m actually more surprised the husband is a he. At least I’m assuming “Russell” is a he...you never know these days.
Who does her husband work for...???
She is a hero to the Dems and the MSM. And we will be seeing plenty of her over the next few years. I wouldn’t be surprised to see her as a keynote speaker at the Dem 2020 Convention.
I don’t know but
Russell Ford = Rusty Ford..
I can’t access FB at the moment..so can’t check if he is on there.
one more reason he should be confirmed
I don’t think Kavanaugh was on Trump’s 2016 list of potential nominees.
Russell “Rusty” Ford allegedly worked for Abbott Medical Optics; also spent some time with Boston Scientific Neurovascular, Zosano Pharma. Nowadays, Russell Ford, is a principal mechanical engineer at Triple Ring Technologies.
Some of those onesies are more revealing than a bikini.
I’m with ya. I think we’re all being played.
This is all a leftist creation.
Otherwise, either her or her husband could hold a press conference....ANYWHERE in America.
The press could keep the location secret...so, some crazed right-winger? doesn’t kill her.
May I suggest Venezuela? ASAP!
Hmmmmmmmmmm
It could be that if she was stable and appeared reliable and able to cope with life they would not have used her in this attempt to destroy the next member of SCOTUS...
They wanted someone unbalanced and paranoid...
“This is outside SanFran Giants stadium (it’s next to a canal) She’s wearing a San Fran Giants baseball jersey”
Where, oh where, is a hungry Great White when they are needed.
Or a pizzed off Bull shark?
Either could have saved us from this nut job.
She ain’t left yet???
Wow, he is a doppelganger for a midwestern archaeologist I saw in a documentary recently.
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