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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKavanaugh Backer Says Sexual Assault Allegation Could Have Been Just "Rough Horseplay"
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/09/carrie-severino-brett-kavanaugh-rough-horseplay/Kavanaugh Backer Says Sexual Assault Allegation Could Have Been Just Rough Horseplay
Christine Blasey Ford has said the assault derailed [her] substantially for four or five years.
Inae Oh
September 18, 2018 1:20 PM
Following the publication of a detailed account of an alleged sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh, conservatives this week are rushing to defend the Supreme Court nominees record, with many openly questioning the credibility of his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, and whether she may be mixed up about the alleged assault.
In that incident, which Ford calls an attempted rape, she alleges that a heavily inebriated Kavanaugh forced her onto a bed, groped her, and tried to disrobe her while covering her mouth to prevent her from screaming during a high-school party in the 1980s. She told the Washington Post the alleged assault derailed [her] substantially for four or five years and had a lasting impact on her life.
Now Carrie Severino, a lawyer for the Judicial Crisis Network, a top activist group behind Kavanaugh, suggests that despite any permanent damage Ford says she suffered, Ford may have incorrectly registered the alleged incident. According to Severino, what actually happened may have simply been rough horseplay between two teenagers.
Well look, her allegations cover up a whole range of conduct, from boorishness to rough horseplay to actual attempted rape, Severino said during a Tuesday appearance on CNN. And obviously, if you go to rape, yes that is a really serious allegation. But this is why itll be useful to have this hearing so we can even figure out some of what the specifics on those allegations are.
I dont think anywhere in there shes saying that this is boorish horseplay at all in her letter, CNN anchor Kate Bolduan interrupted.
Shes certainly implying that its attempted rape, Severino replied. But I think you have to look at 35 years of memory that were trying to play with here, and Im saying that the behavior she describes could describe a whole range of things. I know her perception of it was one.
In an abrupt turn, she then appeared to remember that Kavanaugh has denied that he was even at the party in question. The appearance comes one day after the Judicial Crisis Network launched a $1.5 million to salvage Kavanaughs nomination.
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Kavanaugh Backer Says Sexual Assault Allegation Could Have Been Just "Rough Horseplay" (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2018
OP
Boy, is she going to pay for that .....just rough horseplay - then light dawns -
asiliveandbreathe
Sep 2018
#2
Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)1. Yes,
If a horse jumps on you, holds you down and keeps you from screaming, that's called "horse play".
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)2. Boy, is she going to pay for that .....just rough horseplay - then light dawns -
In an abrupt turn, she then appeared to remember that Kavanaugh has denied that he was even at the party in question.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)3. Rough Bullshit. Very Rough.
Who does "rough horseplay" with a girl, anyhow? And why would he hold his hand over her mouth to keep her from screaming.
Bullshit!
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)4. Horse play? Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford are not horses!
Humans are not supposed to conduct ourselves like beasts!
atreides1
(16,079 posts)5. I'll say this
The greatest threat to the freedom of American women are other American women!!!!
spanone
(135,841 posts)6. horseshit.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)7. Horseplay does not take 4-5 years to get over.
Its clear to me that she was traumatized based on that statement.
😔
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)8. How much more does one need to know about her judgement when she is a top
activist for this horrid human being? He had an agenda that was horrid before we learned of Ford.