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29 Sep 2018 3:43 pm
Here you go jackass.Termin8tor » 29 Sep 2018 7:46 am » wrote:Misty » 27 Sep 2018 8:08 pm » wrote:When are you going to post the EVIDENCE that I accused Kavanaugh of rape, you filthy, insufferable, lying degenerate taintsmear?
This is where your Trumplican Talking Point Lies come from.
Right from the lying little mouth of Fredo and people like Dana Loesch.
Your efforts to undercut Dr. Ford's credibility with this Trumplican Talking Point Lie are not working.Trump Jr. and the GOP’s Obsession with Christine Blasey Ford’s ‘Fear of Flying’
Fearful fliers can and often do fly.
Nevertheless, GOP lawmakers and conservative pundits have latched onto the argument that Ford lacks credibility because she flew to D.C.
“I’m no psychology professor but it does seem weird to me that someone could have a selective fear of flying.
Can’t do it to testify but for vacation, well it’s not a problem at all.”
That was Donald Trump Jr.’s first public comment while watching Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee, in which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified about her sexual-assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Fearful fliers can and often do fly. Nevertheless, GOP lawmakers and conservative pundits have latched onto the argument that Ford lacks credibility because she flew to D.C.
The bizarre comment—one suggesting Ford previously lied when she said she doesn't like to fly—came after investigative counsel Rachel Mitchell, the prosecutor Republicans hired to question Ford, grilled her fear of flying in an attempt to poke holes in her story and prove the Republican belief that her wariness about flying was a ploy to delay Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
But Mitchell’s attempt to use Ford’s fear of air travel to poke holes in her credibility overlooked one key fact: People with a fear of flying can and often do travel by plane.
“How did you get to Washington?” Mitchell asked Ford, who resides in California.
“In an airplane,” Ford replied after a pause.
“I ask that because it has been reported by the press that you would not submit to an interview with the committee because of your fear of flying.
Is that true?” Mitchell said, referring to the reasoning Ford’s counsel gave for her initial reluctance to appear.
“I was hoping that they would come to me but then realized that was an unrealistic request,” Ford said.
"That was certainly what I was hoping was to avoid having to get on an airplane, but I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane," she added.