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Undated:
Christine Margaret Blasey Ford (born November 1966)[4]
is an American professor of
psychology
at
Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the
Stanford University School of Medicine.[5]
She specializes in designing
statistical models for research projects.[6]
During her academic career, Ford has worked as a professor at the Stanford
University School of Medicine Collaborative Clinical Psychology Program.[7]
In September 2018, Ford publicly alleged that then-U.S.
Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in
Bethesda, Maryland, when they were teenagers in the summer of 1982.[8]
She testified about her allegations during a
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding
Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination later that month.[9]
Ford is a registered Democrat who has made small contributions to political
organizations.[8]
In 2017, she participated in a local
Women's March protesting President Trump[12]
and attended a
March for Science in San Francisco to protest the
Trump administration's cuts to research.[17]
In early July 2018, after Judge
Brett Kavanaugh was reported to be on
Donald
Trump's shortlist to become an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ford contacted
both
The Washington Post and her
congresswoman,
Anna Eshoo.[8]
On July 20,[9]
eleven days after
Trump nominated Kavanaugh, Eshoo met with Ford, becoming convinced of her
credibility and noting that Ford seemed "terrified" that her identity as an
accuser might become public. Eshoo and Ford decided to take the matter to
Senator
Dianne Feinstein, one of Ford's senators in California and the ranking
Democrat on the
Senate Judiciary Committee, which would deliberate Kavanaugh's nomination.[32]
In a July 30, 2018 letter to Feinstein, Ford alleged that Kavanaugh had sexually
assaulted her when both were in high schools in Bethesda, Maryland, and stated
that she expected her story to be kept confidential.[8][33]
In August, Ford took a
polygraph
test with a former
FBI
agent, who concluded Ford was being truthful when attesting to the accuracy of
her allegations.[8]
On September 16, after media reported anonymous allegations and reporters
started to track down her identity, Ford went public.[39]
Ford had wrestled with the choice to make her identity known, weighing the
potential negative impact it could have on her,[40][41]
but ultimately spoke to The Washington Post, alleging that Kavanaugh had
sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982 when she was 15 and he was 17.[42][43][44]
She said that, while his friend
Mark Judge watched, Kavanaugh, intoxicated, held her down on a bed with his
body, grinding against and groping her, covering her mouth when she tried to
scream and trying to pull her clothes off.[45][46]
Finding it hard to breathe, she thought Kavanaugh was accidentally (her
emphasis) going to kill her.[11]
She recounted escaping when Judge jumped on the bed and toppled them.[8]
As corroboration of her account, Ford provided the Post with the
polygraph results as well as session notes from her
couples therapist written in 2012.[8]
On September 21, President Trump
tweeted about Ford, saying that if Ford's allegations were true, either she
or her parents would have reported them at the time of the event.[26]
Fortune called the tweet an attempt "to undermine her allegation"[52]
and Republican Senator
Susan Collins—considered a key
swing vote
on Kavanaugh's nomination—said she is "appalled" by Trump's tweet, calling it
"inappropriate and wrong".[53]
Trump's statements about Ford prompted sexual assault victims to start Tweeting
using the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport to share reasons for silence.[54]
Trump issued several more statements, including a tweet alleging that Kavanaugh
was "under assault by radical left wing politicians".[55]
On September 28, after a request from U.S. Senator
Jeff Flake,
followed by a request from the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Trump
ordered an FBI supplemental background investigation concerning the sexual
assault allegations against Kavanaugh.[67]
On October 3,
NBC News reported that Ford, Kavanaugh, and dozens of other witnesses were
not interviewed by the FBI due to restrictions imposed by the White House.[68]
Ford has received considerable backlash for coming forward with her allegations
against Brett Kavanaugh, facing a number of threats that include death threats.
During her testimony, Ford stated, "I have been called the most vile and hateful
names imaginable. People have posted my personal information on the internet.
This has resulted in additional emails, calls, and threats. My family and I were
forced to move out of our home". Despite the confirmation of Kavanaugh to the
Supreme Court, these threats have not stopped.[72]As
of November 2018, Ford stated that she is still being harassed and threatened
and has had to move four times as well as hire private security.[73]
Subsequently, she has not been able to resume her teaching at Palo Alto
University.[25]
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