Ford's claim is over 30 years old. Tyson's claim is half that, at 15 years old.
2) told no one about it at the time
Ford claims she told her best friend, who denies it. Tyson claims she told a DNC official, who buried it.
4) claims timed for political impact
Tyson told the Washington Post during the 2017 election, but they sat on the story. While that might have had a political impact in the Virginia LG race, it is nothing compared to the impact today post-Kavanaugh.
-PJ
re: 1) 15 vs. 30 years on a hearsay claim... both are ancient. The difference is immaterial.
re: 2) Told a friend who denies it vs. told an unspecified DNC official - a person who by the job description alone cannot be trusted - if there’s a difference here, it’s that the second accusation learned from the first not to name a specific witness, so that the witness couldn’t deny the accusation.
re: 4) both timings are for political impact: 2017 election, and today’s Northam fiasco. And silent in between, and beforehand? Perfect match both times for the false-claim red flag, reinforced heavily by two such timings.
Victims of sexual assault must understand this: if there is no physical evidence, and they wait many years to tell anyone, and there’s no way for any objective third party to distinguish an accusation from post-facto regret of voluntary, consensual behavior... they should be treated as a criminal, and the accusations assumed to be false, defamatory, retaliatory and extortionate.