Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has just taken control of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process by calling for the FBI to investigate her accusations before she testifies before Congress.
“Speaking through her lawyers,” The New York Times Tuesday night reports, “Christine Blasey Ford did not explicitly rule out appearing next Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify along with Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.”
“But echoing Senate Democrats, she said an investigation should be ‘the first step’ before she is put ‘on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident.'”
Dr. Blasey Ford, who has accused Judge Kavanaugh of sexual assault and attempted rape when both were in high school, has had to move out of her home amid a flurry of death threats.
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