FORD: Questions linger

Is any part of Christine Blasey Ford’s story believable?

With only four or five people at the “gathering”, how could two of them follow her upstairs without the others’ awareness or wondering what they were up to?

She left the house without warning her friend there were two rapists in the house?

No one asked why she was leaving or thought it strange enough to ask her about it the next day?

In the days before cell phones, how did she contact a driver to coordinate her ride home?

How can Dr. Ford remember the first and last names of four people at the gathering and remember that she had only one beer, but she can’t remember how she got to the party, whose house it was, where the house was, how she got home, or even the month or exact year when this occurred?

After more than 30 years of reflecting on the incident, why would she need to read her story from her notes at the hearing?

Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit by President Bush in 2003 and the contentious hearings were widely reported in the national news. Why didn’t she come forward with her allegation at that time?

If what’s been reported is true that she erased her social media profiles just before coming forward with the accusation, then why? What could she possibly want to hide in her on-line chats?

JIM BALLOU

Hayden