Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford doubles down on rape allegations in new memoir

Christine Blasey Ford has a new book out called "One Way Back," and she's hit the media circuit to promote it. As she peddles the book, she's back to peddling her allegations about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Ford had attempted to stop Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court in 2018 with accusations that he had raped her at a party when they were both teenagers. 

Kavanaugh weathered the allegations and earned his appointment with a vote of 50 to 48 in the Senate, and as The Federalist's Molli Hemmingway pointed out, there was then and remains to be no evidence that Ford and Kavanaugh ever met. Ford could not specify when the alleged attack occurred, and was unable to give a date or location. She has no recollection as to how she arrived at the party she referenced, or how she got home. Kavanaugh, however, kept detailed diary records of what he was doing throughout high school. 

Ford had said, at the time she made the allegations, that she wanted it to remain confidential, but her first phone call, Hemmingway points out, was to the Washington Post. She also admitted at the time that she was interested in putting an "asterisk" next to Kavanaugh's name. Ford was decidedly anti-Trump. There have been no allegations of this kind levied at Kavanaugh in his career.

Of her book, she said "But now, what I and this book can offer is a call to all the other people who might not have chosen those roles for themselves, but who choose to do what’s right. Sometimes you don’t speak out because you are a natural disrupter. You do it to cause a ripple that might one day become a wave."

Speaking to the ladies of The View, Ford reaffirmed her allegations against Kavanaugh, gaining praise from the ladies. Joy Behar was aghast that Kavanaugh continues to deny the allegations, while Ford continues to say they are true. During the confirmation hearings in 2018, Kavanaugh was horrified by the allegations, and Ford brings up his anger in the book. 

Kavanaugh's anger at the time was viewed by an anti-Trump media as evidence of guilt, which is how Behar continued to view it in speaking with Ford. She expressed to Ford that it must be frustrating to see Kavanaugh "elevated" while she was the recipient of threats for her unsubstantiated allegations.

"It's really hard to come to terms with," Ford told Behar. "And I had to just detach from the outcome a month before you saw me on TV because it was so stressful even thinking about it. And I didn't know what kind of impact it would have. And when he was confirmed, I just had to go into radical acceptance mode and accept that that was the outcome. But the lovely unexpected outcome was this lovely outpouring from sexual assault survivors and citizens around the world saying that they learned civic duty and patriotism and all the things that are important to all of us."

The political nature of the allegations against Kavanaugh were made plain when an accuser, Tara Reade, stepped up with allegations against Joe Biden. Her accusations fell on the deaf ears of a media industry that had used Ford's allegations to bolster the Me Too and Believe All Women movements. 

Even in the discussion of women "coming forward" on The View, Reade was not mentioned. Instead, Anita Hill, who brought allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings was mentioned. When Ford was asked if she had any regrets, "I would definitely do it again," Ford said. "It was terrible afterwards for a couple of years."

She received a round of applause from the audience, though Behar shamed the men in the crowd who did not cheer for the woman who suffered after making false allegations and then doubling down on those allegations in a memoir.