Christine Blasey Ford made it clear to the Senate Thursday that she knows the difference between Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and a man some conservatives believe may have been the one who sexually assaulted her in 1982, by telling senators that she dated the other man.
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Ford was asked in the Senate Judiciary Committee about the theory that a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Georgetown Preparatory School who looked like Kavanaugh was the man who assaulted her. Ford replied by saying she didn’t want to name the person who was identified by Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in a series of tweets this month.
But Ford indicated she was unlikely to mix up the two men, as she said she “went out” with the second man for a few months, and were distant friends after that. Occasionally, she said, they ran into each other at the Columbia Country Club.
Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party at a Maryland house in 1982. Kavanaugh, however, has vehemently denied the allegation.
In a series of now-deleted tweets this month, Whelan detailed a theory that Ford misidentified the person who sexually assaulted her.
Whelan found the childhood home of the man and said it fit the description of that from Ford, and also posted a photo of the individual, saying the two looked similar and could’ve been confused.
But Ford rejected any possible confusion multiple times Thursday, telling senators she was “100 percent” confident it was Kavanaugh who sexually assaulted her.
Ford told the panel that she attended several parties with Kavanaugh when she was in high school, but said no other inappropriate sexual behavior on Kavanaugh’s part occurred.
