[Dr.Deth]

I don't know that Ford believes she's lying. She's presumably an expert on self-hypnosis and recovered memories and other soft-science psychobabble etched on her inedible hippopotamus.

That said, she's either a malign and devious leftist stooge, or a traipsing irresponsible dingbat. There's no middle ground here.

[octex]

“... her inedible hippopotamus.”
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Those words kinda sound like the words you meant, but I think you missed the mark on the language you posted.