Read the letter Christine Blasey Ford detailing sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh
Read Christine Blasey Ford’s detailing sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh
Christine Blasey Ford, a Palo Alto University professor, has alleged that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her down and sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers in the 1980s. Ford came forward in a Washington Post report on Sunday after first making these allegations in a letter that she sent to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), which the lawmaker referred to the FBI last week.
Ford had been in contact with the Post for weeks but had declined to go public with her allegations, fearing retaliation and public attacks. Her calculations changed after the news of her letter broke broke earlier this week, and ultimately, she said, she came forward out of concerns that rep...