Christine Blasey Ford told senators Thursday that she can’t forget how Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, were laughing at her as they assaulted her in a bedroom during a high school party.
“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter, between the two, and their having fun at my expense,” Ford, a psychologist, said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that was convened to discuss her complaint against Kavanaugh.
Ford was answering a question about her memory of the alleged event posed by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
“You’ve never forgotten that laughter,” Leahy said.
Ford said the two “were laughing with each other” as Kavanaugh was on top of her and then Judge piled on top of him.
“I was underneath them,” Ford recalled, describing the scene with Kavanaugh and Judge as “two friends having a really good time with one another.”
Kavanaugh is expected to testify later in the day, after Ford is finished.
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