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riversedge

(70,239 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 07:12 PM Sep 2018

Dr Blasey has been indulated with vulgar email and messages and death threaths -is in hiding....

Hardball just reported on this.....



Kavanaugh’s Accuser Has Yet to Confirm Appearance at Monday Hearings




https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh-senate-hearing.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, has said he will testify at a Senate hearing scheduled for

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Nicholas Fandos

Sept. 18, 2018

WASHINGTON — The woman who has accused President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault has so far failed to respond to requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify at an extraordinary public hearing on Monday, raising doubts about whether she plans to attend — and whether the session would go on without her.

Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who leads the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday that he had sent several requests to lawyers for the accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, to testify along with Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh. But Mr. Grassley said that he had not gotten a reply, “so it kind of raises the question: Do they want to come to the public hearing or not?”

President Trump also weighed in. “Judge Kavanaugh is anxious to do it,” he told reporters at the White House. “I don’t know about the other party.”
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Published On Sept. 18, 2018 CreditCreditImage by Doug Mills/The New York Times

The mysterious silence from Dr. Blasey and her lawyers was another turn in a drama that has gripped the Capitol since Thursday, when the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee revealed that she had referred the sexual assault allegations to federal investigators. Dr. Blasey, a research psychologist in Northern California, has accused the judge of sexually assaulting her more than 30 years ago, when both were teenagers, a charge that Judge Kavanaugh has categorically denied.


Dr. Blasey, thrust suddenly into a spotlight that she never sought, has been inundated with vulgar email and social media messages, and even death threats, according to a person close to her, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private matter. “From what I’ve heard you have 6 months to live, you disgusting slime,” one message said.


Dr. Blasey, who has two teenagers, has moved out of her house, is arranging for private security for herself and her family, and is effectively in hiding, the person said. But Dr. Blasey has also been buoyed by a flood of supportive messages from friends and strangers..............................................





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Dr Blasey has been indulated with vulgar email and messages and death threaths -is in hiding.... (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2018 OP
All of trumps "loyal" supporters I imagine Andy823 Sep 2018 #1
Please add your support to this DU thread: spooky3 Sep 2018 #2
deplorables at it again. JHan Sep 2018 #3
Very sad, death threats?.. k and r Stuart G Sep 2018 #4
I FOUND THE LINK!!!! CatWoman Sep 2018 #5
This is why the FBI should be involved GusBob Sep 2018 #6
Repukes Are Scum!! I Expected No less From These Money Grubbing Cretins. DoctorJoJo Sep 2018 #7
The NYT just reported that Dr Ford said there needs to be an FBI investigation b4 she testifies Thekaspervote Sep 2018 #8
Has she submitted a sworn federal criminal complaint about the assault? dumbcat Sep 2018 #9
I also wonder why she says there needs to be dumbcat Sep 2018 #13
title: "indulated" should be "inundated" Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2018 #10
Forget it. He's rolling. tclambert Sep 2018 #12
This is the culture that the man at the top and his base have established question everything Sep 2018 #11
Her personal info was posted on Twitter benld74 Sep 2018 #14
No surprise. I think she's smart enough to have prepared. bitterross Sep 2018 #15

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
1. All of trumps "loyal" supporters I imagine
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 07:24 PM
Sep 2018

The cream of the crop, the KKK, nazis, white supremacy groups, etc, and of course I am sure a whole lot of Russian trolls sent to "help" trump from his good friend Putin.

It's disgusting how much of this crap has gone on since trump took office. All the scum have been emboldened to come out from under the rocks and into the light with their hate and far right wing thinking. We really need to make sure those republicans all over the country who have ignored what has happened to our country since trump was put in the W.H. by Russia, need to be voted out of office to matter what office they hold. From the local government all the way to the top, we need to get out an vote them out of office, period!

Thekaspervote

(32,771 posts)
8. The NYT just reported that Dr Ford said there needs to be an FBI investigation b4 she testifies
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 08:12 PM
Sep 2018

I wish she, or her attorneys would have explained to her that since the orange anus isn’t calling for an FBI investigation there will be none! Sad!

dumbcat

(2,120 posts)
9. Has she submitted a sworn federal criminal complaint about the assault?
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 08:19 PM
Sep 2018

If not, why not?

Doesn't there need to be probable cause that a crime has occurred, and a prosecution, to begin an FBI investigation?

Since she is now on the record, what is holding her back from pressing charges?

dumbcat

(2,120 posts)
13. I also wonder why she says there needs to be
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 08:36 PM
Sep 2018

an FBI investigation before she testifies. Why? That doesn't sound like anything I have ever heard of before. Is that normal? Would the FBI share any results of any of their investigation with her (or anyone else) before she testifies? Why would they do that? That doesn't sound legit.

I know we want her to be able to get her story out there to stop Kavanaugh, but why these weird conditions? Just testify, and/or go to the media.

benld74

(9,904 posts)
14. Her personal info was posted on Twitter
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 08:53 PM
Sep 2018

Right after she came forward
Address
Phone numbers
Work place
Etc

And what happened to the perpetrator?
Kicked off Twitter

For
12 forking hours!
That’s it!!!!
Twitterverse was ignited against
Dorsey and it’s stupid rules

When perpetrator’s 12 was up

Back to doing what he was doing to get kicked for 12

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
15. No surprise. I think she's smart enough to have prepared.
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:49 PM
Sep 2018

She waited and got an attorney before she came forward.

None of that can possibly prepare one for the reality of it though.

Take care! You are a hero!

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