Thread by @spine1692

The Kavanaugh treatment was originally planned for Gorsuch.

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@PugsForSenate realized the 2012 therapist story was about Gorsuch:

https://twitter.com/PugsForSenate/status/1046231306793873408

In 2012, Ford told her therapist that the incident occurred in the “mid-80s” and her “late teens”.

That IS what she told the therapist; the therapist did NOT make an error.

During hearing, Mitchell asked her about the year when referencing her texts to the Washington Post.

Ford also said that she told the therapist the attacker could one day be on the Supreme Court.

“I recall saying that the boy who assaulted me could someday be on the U.S. Supreme Court.”

npr.org/2018/09/26/651…

HOW GORSUCH FITS

Neil Gorsuch graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School in 1985 (“mid-1980s”), two years after Kavanaugh.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gors…

Ford would have been in her “late teens” in the “mid 1980s”.

She was 15 in 1982, so she would have been 18 in 1985.

Neil Gorsuch was known to be a possible SC pick if Romney had won in 2012.
cnn.com/2012/09/30/pol…

HOW STORY WAS TWEAKED FOR KAVANAUGH

Ford had to set the date of the attack in the early 1980s, since Kavanaugh graduated in 1983.

Ford used Judge’s book (which was published in 1997) to come up with the summer of 1982.

The brilliant @ProfMJCleveland worked this out:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1046219…

“My husband recalls that I named my attacker as Brett Kavanaugh.”
npr.org/2018/09/26/651…

Interesting aside: Could the GoFundMe account be a payoff to her husband for willingness to say his wife named Kavanaugh?

“The family has been named the sole beneficiary and her husband will take the funds directly from GoFundMe.” Her husband...
gofundme.com/help-christine…