Short thread. It's absurd that I have to do this, but my wife @NancyAFrench is the subject of a vile tweets by @julie_kelly2 from a MAGA publication called "American Greatness." For background, my wife is a victim of childhood sexual abuse 1/: washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-f…
In that first article, she called what happened to her "pedophilia" and sex abuse. In an article last year, she amplified what happened to her and explained it occurred when she was 12 years old 2/: washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-f…
What happened to Nancy was evil, but she has persevered through that abuse, through other dreadful things, and is a wonderful wife and amazing mother to our three kids. She's brave and kind and compassionate. 3/
When she wrote another WaPo piece arguing that _if_ Kavanaugh was guilty of sex abuse, then he shouldn't sit on SCOTUS (a position I shared, by the way), then @julie_kelly2 tweeted this 4/:
Yes, my wife's abuse at age 12 was characterized as having "screwed around with her preacher when she was a teen." I ignored her then because neither one of us wanted to bring further attention to her, but . . . 5/
She has spent part of yesterday and today doubling down on her false claims. People are reaching to me for comment. For an example of what Kelly says, read this thread 6/:
In dealing with professionals, you would ordinarily ask them to correct and apologize, but I have no such expectation here, however. I share this because the truth matters. My wife was abused by an evil person when she was 12. It was deeply traumatic. 7/
One final note -- I don't write this thread to concede in the slightest that abuse of younger teens (a person below the age of consent) is any way acceptable but to set the record straight. I don't plan on saying anything more about this vile matter. End/
