Posted on 09/30/2018 10:45:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Conventional wisdom, as dictated by a preponderance of television pundits, says there were no new facts that came out during the testimony of Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh this week. Many also said Rachel Mitchell, the sex crimes prosecutor that questioned Ford, didn't achieve much. I disagree.
There was at least one revelation that was shocking and the repercussions from it could be quite substantial. During Dr. Ford's testimony, she said she didn't know the Judiciary Committee had offered many, many times for her to testify in private and in California. It was shocking that she didn't know this because it was widely reported. References to it appeared in numerous news reports. But this is what Ford said during her testimony:
Mitchell: Was it communicated to you by your counsel or someone else that the committee had asked to interview you, and that they offered to come out to California to do so?
Ford Attorney: Im going to object, Mr. Chairman, to any call for privileged conversation between counsel and Dr. Ford.
Mitchell: Could you validate that the offer was made, without saying a word? Is it possible for that question to be answered without violating any counsel relationships?
Ford: Can I say something to you? Do you mind if I say something to you directly? I just appreciate that you did offer that. I wasnt clear on what the offer was. If you were going to come out to see me, I would have happily hosted you and been happy to speak with you out there. I just did not it was not clear to me that that was the case.
In his column, Greg Jarrett provided the above excerpt from the hearing transcript and quoted Grassley's Sept. 19 email to Ford's counsel. My staff would still welcome the opportunity to speak with Dr. Ford at any time, at any place convenient to her. Come to us, or we to you. Im willing to have my staff travel to California, or anywhere else, to obtain her testimony.
Dr. Ford said she wasnt clear about what the offer was. Could it be possible that she really didn't know she didn't have to come to DC and testify in public? At least that would explain something that never made sense to me in the week leading up to the hearing. I wondered why, if she didn't want to be in the public eye, would she not accept the offer to testify privately. Grassley said over and over in interviews that they would be happy to take her testimony any time, any place.
And at this same time, anti-Kavanaugh Democrats were going on every cable news show saying Republicans were "bullying" her into testifying. That was the mantra. Democrat Senators knew Grassley had made the offer for her to testify privately in California, and the media who were all running the clips of him making the offer knew about it. Yet they allowed anti-Kavanaugh public officials and pundits to make the bullying charge over and over again unchallenged.
For Ford's lawyers to keep the committee's offer from her, would not only require them to decide to withhold it, but to also keep her away from all news, and from anyone who watched or read the news. If the lawyers did withhold that offer from Ford, they not only committed malpractice, but they viciously duped her into reliving the moment she said had ruined her life. And duped her into reliving it in the most public way possible. And they told her it was the Republicans' fault.
If that happened, that is evil. And it would be proof that the Democrats on the Committee, or at the very least her Democrat lawyers, got what they wanted all along a televised #MeToo moment that would not only destroy a Supreme Court nomination, but serve as a club to bludgeon Republicans with in the midterms. And they didn't mind using a woman who claims to be a sexual assault victim to do it.
If Dr. Ford wasn't telling the truth about not knowing about the offer, then it was also a very important piece of testimony. As Senator Richard "Stolen Valor" Blumenthal pontificated during the hearing, "False in one thing, false in everything."
By her own words, the woman was not “sexually” assualted. No sexual contact of any kind occured, if anything this was simple assualt.
So it strains believability that her attorneys would not have told her about it.
It further strains believability that SHE didn’t know about it.
Did she not watch TV, read a newspaper or listen to the radio?
It was ALL OVER every media...
As they said in the movie, part of the crew, part of the ship.
The DNC proverbially absorbs people no matter the costs to them for the benefit of the power of the elites.
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You're right, but she didn't need to PLAY dumb.
Of maybe just keep her on the DU.
Yep
It is unbelievable that Ford knew ZIP as she is a big time SOROS pal, and; she knows the left wing fake news by heart. This is a female who some state she claimed of screwing 50 + boys before her freshman year in college. Add her lies about fear of flying, her BS PTSD crap made me wanna puke, as she has never really been anywhere where she feared for her life for days on end. These BS artists are paid by SOROS.
The Clintons being prime practitioners of that
“100% sure.”
Judge Taylor? I’m not reading anything about a Judge Taylor in the op-ed.
Anyone with a frickin’ brain should understand that if the Republicans attacked and cross-examined Ford the vote in committee would have failed and that would have been the end of Kavanaugh. Every winning strategy requires execution of small steps toward a goal, not nuking everything, sheesh.
Notice she doesn’t even really answer the question.
Why does she have on dirty glasses? It makes her look like she is mentally challenged. Always grabbing her glasses by the lenses. At least snot was not running from her nose. That would have matched the little girl baby talk.
Wake up people, the rats have set all of this up. Its a fake, typical democRAT trick.
False accusers deserve no justice, no peace.
The DOJ is on it.
Right after the investigation into the:
Yep. That’s where I got to see Little Girl Lost’s Oscar winning performance analysed. After which I realized EVERYONE in that room knew it was fake, but were afraid of the clips and soundbites bringing forth the truth would result in.
Anyone who fell for that little girl routine of hers is an idiot.
There’s just no other honest way to put it.
Its one of our many stories that highlight the danger of Senate demonrats once again taking US back to the days when a womans false accusation trumps the presumption of innocence and could get you lynched, legally or otherwise.
Their ends justify their means and that should be both a lesson and a warning to the rest of US.
The skank lied about everything and everybody.
Dr. Ford would like us to believe that she struggles with the English language, and that she is less interested in news about her case than anybody with internet access who has heard about her case.
Just more B.S. pretending she didn’t know about the offer to have the committee come out to CA. If she answered “Yes, I knew of that offer”, immediately she’d be asked why didn’t you accept it?
Because she was told to stall for time. If she had the committee fly out she would have been testifying a week or more earlier & they hadn’t prepped her enough.
And please stop making excuses for the dumb bitch they brought in to question her. If she did her job, this all would be over by now. Ask if there was a bathroom downstairs? Done her damn research and pointed out the remodel was done in 2008, not 2012. Asked her if she answered any direct questions on the lie detector. Asked her what were the 6 papers about, that she wrote for Corcept Therapeutics. Asked her is she was an affiliate in the CIA internship program at Standford, and why would they have taken that off the site?
You could tell she was lying and walking on eggshells. A few questions that would have pressured her, she would have broke.
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