Christine Blasey Ford Testimony Rivets the Nation and Worries the White House
WASHINGTON — She was nervous as anyone would be describing perhaps the worst evening of her life. Her voice at times was high, her manner deferential, even solicitous. And for a moment, it was possible to hear that 15-year-old girl trying to escape a bedroom where two older, bigger boys had terrorized her.
For a dozen days, Christine Blasey Ford was an idea rather than a person, the focal point of one of the most polarized debates in a polarized capital without anyone having seen her, met her or heard her. But on Thursday, she became a very human being, telling a terrible story in compelling terms that transformed the battle for the Supreme Court.
Her harrowing account of a sexual assault during a high school party by a drunken teenager she identified as Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh brought some women to tears and sent shudders through the White House and Republican circles as President Trump’s nomination for the high court looked increasingly in jeopardy. She came across as Everywoman — an Everywoman with a Ph.D. — at once guileless about politics yet schooled in the science of memory and psychology.
While her story had been told in print, hearing her describe being pushed down on a bed and Mr. Kavanaugh “running his hands over my body and grinding into me,” then trying to “take off my clothes” while his friend Mark Judge watched transformed the allegation into images and words difficult to disregard.
“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,” she told the Senate Judiciary Committee when asked what was most searing in her memory, using a term for part of the brain, “the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense.”
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