Sex-crimes prosecutor who questioned Christine Blasey Ford says that Democrats', lawyers' actions 'affected' her testimony
by Becket Adams
| October 01, 2018 02:01 PM
The headlines only pointed to the bottom line: Rachel Mitchell wouldn't have prosecuted Brett Kavanaugh based on the available evidence after her questioning of both Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
But there was a lot more to it than that. The memo shows that Mitchell did not find Ford's story credible. One reason was the lack of corroboration from the witnesses she cited. Another was her own failure to recollect important details about the sexual assault she alleges occurred nearly 40 years ago.
But more importantly, Mitchell found Ford to be evasive in her answers about more recent events – specifically, events that occurred this summer, when she began discussing her story with Democrats and with the Washington Post.
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