‘He was trying to attack me’: Christine Blasey Ford accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in the 1980s
According to her lawyer, she is willing to do ‘whatever it takes’, including testifying publicly, to get her story out
The woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her is willing to tell her story to a Senate panel considering his nomination to the Supreme Court, her lawyer said on Monday.
Kavanaugh appeared on a smooth confirmation track, but the allegations have roiled that process. Christine Blasey Ford claims a drunken Kavanaugh groped her and tried to take off her clothes at a party when they were teenagers.
Debra Katz, Ford’s lawyer, said her client considered the incident to be attempted rape.
“She believes that if were not for the severe intoxication of Brett Kavanaugh, she would have been raped,” Katz told NBC’s Today. “She is willing to do whatever it takes to get her story forth.”
Kavanaugh said on Monday that the accusation of sexual misconduct against him was “completely false” and the incident “never happened”.
“This is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like what the accuser describes – to her or to anyone,” Kavanaugh said in a statement distributed by the White House. “I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation from 36 years ago and defend my integrity.”
