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.
Tyson's telling the Washington Post predates the Kavanagh accusations, so there was no claim yet by Ford to mirror.
The Washington Post sat on the Tyson story since November 2017. Ford didn’t call the Washington Post until September 2018, so Ford couldn't know of Tyson's claim.
Oh, and Tyson's is not a "hearsay claim" because Fairfax himself admits they went to his room and kissed. They differ on the claim of forced oral sex. With Ford, there was never any proof that Ford and Kavanaugh were ever in the same room together.
-PJ
Two words.
Duke Lacrosse.
Women *lie*. Particularly about sex. And there are many cases out there where women lied through their teeth about “rape” to get out of trouble.