Thread by @JuddLegum

1. Ford's attorney released four affidavits that establish she told multiple people she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh long before he was nominated to the Supreme Court

This demolishes the idea her story was invented for political purposes

usatoday.com/story/news/201…

2. In 2013, she told a friend about the alleged assault: "Christine told me she had been having a hard day because she was thinking about an assault she experienced when she was much younger. She said she had been almost raped by someone who was now a federal judge. "

3. In 2016, she told another friend: "Christine expressed anger at [Brock] Turner’s lenient sentence, stating that she was particularly bothered by it because she was assaulted in high school by a man who was now a federal judge in Washington, D.C."

4. In 2017, she told a third friend: "[S]he told me she had read a recent social media post I had written about my own [] sexual assault... She then told me that when she was a young teen, she had been sexually assaulted... her assailant was now a federal judge."

5. The last declaration is from her husband who says she told him about the assault in general terms when they were married in 2002 and then in detail during a therapy session in 2012. This declaration is bolstered by the therapists notes