Yes, the whole point of Ms Ford was not to tell the truth, but to put that asterisk next to Bret’s name. That is 100% it in a nutshell. She, and the entire Leftist agenda was to intentionally prejudice, discredit, ahead of time, any judicial decision on abortion that Bret might make.
That was the same sort of “racist” charge tactic they did against Jeff Sessions - make him illegitimate in the public eye, falsely accusing him as a racist, so that nothing Sessions did would be accepted, given how the media would fall in line with the Dims false racist charges.
They outed her. Probably with a promise of a payoff. But after she said anything happened, she was stuck or her credibility would be forever shot. They needed someone who was a BK contemporary who COULD have been at a party he attended and tried to engineer a situation where he COULD have done something like this and not been able to refute it. They also knew you can’t prove a negative so they thought the lie would go through unchecked. They didn’t count on the fact that he had a rock solid alibi for most nights and a calendar to prove it, as well as a pretty good explanation and memory for where he was and what he did during the summer and fall.
The swimsuit thing gave her away but she had to lie about that part of it, otherwise she couldn’t explain how she’d be at a party where he was as well. It was a very easily discoverable lie. How do I know? Because 2 summers after that year I was going out with 2 girls and had to get creative (aka lie) sometimes about where I was and who I was with. Ford’s testimony brought back a LOT of memories.