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Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe campaign in aid of Dr. Christine Ford, as she continues to push sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. A representative for Lesh confirmed to Rolling Stone that he made the donation last week to a GoFundMe campaign titled “Help Christine Blasey Ford,” days before she testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about an alleged 3o-plus-year-old sexual assault. “Christine Blasey Ford demonstrated a huge amount of courage speaking out this week,” the campaign’s statement reads. “She did not initially come forward because she...

One campaign has raised over $300,000 to help with Blasey Ford's personal and security costs. The topic came up during the hearing because Blasey Ford was asked how she paid for her polygraph test. In her appearance before U.S. senators on Thursday, Christine Blasey Ford was asked how she would pay for the polygraph test that was administered and handle other costs associated with her testimony against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. "I'm aware that there's been several GoFundMe sites," Blasey Ford told Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona prosecutor who was hired to ask questions on behalf of Republican senators. "I...