Thread: Truth Comes Out: Ford Was ‘Afraid’ To Fly to DC but Not Hawaii, Tahiti, Costa Rica or

Rachel Mitchell Demolishes Christine Blasey Ford’s Claim She Fears Flying



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Investigative counsel Rachel Mitchell, cross-examining Christine Blasey Ford at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, demolished her claim that she could not testify on Monday because she was afraid of flying.

Ford and her attorneys refused a Monday hearing, arguing that she was afraid to fly. One of her friends even claimed that her fear of flying was a result of the alleged assault by Judge Brett Kavanaugh over 35 years ago.
Watch the exchange:

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As Politico reported:

The GOP has been told that Ford does not want to fly from her California home to Washington, according to the Republican senator, which means she may need to drive across the country. Ford has reportedly told friends she is uncomfortable in confined spaces, indicating a physical difficulty in making the trip by plane.

Committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) then offered to travel to California to interview Ford, relieving her of the need to fly. She declined. There was talk of having Ford drive across the country to make the hearing.
Yet under questioning by Mitchell, Ford admitted that she had, in fact, flown across the country to make the hearing. She had also flown to the east coast for a vacation with family in August. She also admitted flying frequently for her work and for her hobbies, including surfing vacations in Hawaii, Costa Rica, and French Polynesia. Ford, laughing nervously, said that it was easier to fly for vacations.

Critics had speculated that the sole reason Democrats, and Ford, were refusing a Monday hearing — or even a compromise Wednesday hearing — was because a Thursday hearing would make it almost impossible for the Senate to hold a confirmation vote on Judge Kavanaugh before the Supreme Court begins its new session on October 1.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


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Truth Comes Out: Ford Was ‘Afraid’ To Fly to DC but Not Hawaii, Tahiti, Costa Rica or French Polynesia

By Benjamin Arie
September 27, 2018 at 11:52am

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The circus surrounding allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh took a bizarre turn Thursday after accuser Christine Blasey Ford essentially admitted to the Senate that she has been less than honest over the past few weeks.
Ford, a left-leaning university professor in California, had previously claimed that she couldn’t get to Washington, D.C. to testify in front of Congress in a timely manner because she was deathly afraid of flying.
It was obvious from the start that this was likely a delaying tactic by Democrats who wanted to “run out the clock” on Kavanaugh’s confirmation, but Ford stuck by her claim that getting on an airplane to Washington was a major obstacle.
“The GOP has been told that Ford does not want to fly from her California home to Washington … which means she may need to drive across the country,” Politico reported last week.
“Ford has reportedly told friends she is uncomfortable in confined spaces, indicating a physical difficulty in making the trip by plane,” the news magazine continued.
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But is it true? As it turns out, no.
After finally showing up to testify in front of the Senate after several delays, Ford was forced to admit that she lied or at least hugely exaggerated her crippling fear of flying. It was a delaying tactic all along.
While facing prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, Ford was asked directly to explain this “fear of flying” and how it prevented her from giving her testimony earlier.
“May I ask, Dr. Ford, how did you get to Washington?” Mitchell asked.
“In an airplane,” Ford answered sheepishly.
“OK, I ask that because it’s been reported by the press that you would not submit to an interview with the committee because of your fear of flying,” Mitchell followed up. “Is that true?”
Ford seemed to squirm as she struggled to answer.
“Well, I was hoping that they would come to me,” the accuser responded.

“When you were here back in August, end of July, August, how did you get here?” Mitchell asked.
Do you believe Blasey Ford is a credible witness?

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“Also by airplane,” Ford answered.
“I also saw on your — you talked about Hawaii, Costa Rica, South Pacific Islands, and French Polynesia,” Mitchell continued. “Have you been to all of those places? By airplane?”
“Yes,” Ford confirmed.
So let’s get this straight. Ford believed that her vague and unproven claim from nearly 40 years ago was so important that she had to tell her story to stop Kavanaugh.
But, she couldn’t be bothered to actually get on an airplane and talk to senators because she said she was terrified of flying.
Yet the exact same woman just admitted on camera that she had absolutely no problem flying to some of the most exotic locations in the world, some of which require far longer trips in cramped airplanes than a routine flight to Washington.
She lied. She made up a convenient excuse in order to help Democrats by delaying the process.
Here’s the big question: If she had no problem lying about this, what else is she being dishonest about?

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No, Ford is not a credible witness.