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Uproarious laughter haunts me

Accuser of Trump's SC pick feared she could be raped, killed

AFP, Washington
University professor Christine Blasey Ford said Thursday she believed she was going to be raped or accidentally killed during an alleged assault 36 years ago by Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump's embattled nominee for the Supreme Court
" I am here today not because 1 want to be," the 51 -year-old Blasey Ford told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a charged hearing room.
"I am terrified,” she said, her voice quavering on the verge of tears as she recounted the details of the 1982 incident which she says took place at a party in a suburban Maryland home.
"I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school," Blasey Ford said.
Kavanaugh, a conservative 53-year-old appeals court judge, was not present as the session -- which could make or break his confirmation to the nation's highest court -got underway. He is expected to testify later in the day.
The accusation, which Kavanaugh steadfastly denies, has thrust the Trump administration into the #MeToo movement's harsh glare, and threatens to derail a conservative effort to tilt the high court to the right for years to come.
Blasey Ford, wearing glasses and a sober dark blue suit, recounted the alleged assault from the witness table in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room.
A psychology professor in California who is married and has two children, she said she was " 100 percent" certain it was Kavanaugh who attacked her and not a case of mistaken identity.
She said Kavanaugh and a friend of his, Mark Judge, were "visibly drunk" at the party and that she was pushed into a bedroom as she headed to the bathroom.
" Brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes, ” she said. "He had a hard time because he was very inebriated.
" I believed he was going to rape me," Blasey Ford said.
■ I tried to yell for help.
“When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling," she said. "This is what terrified me the most and has had the most lasting impact on my life.
■ It was hard for me to breathe, and I thought that Brett was accidentally goingto kill me," she said.
"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two, and them having fun at my expense," she said when asked about her most powerful memory of the incident.
Blasey Ford said she managed to escape when Judge jumped on the bed, sending them all toppling.
Trump nominated Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who had been a swing vote on a court currently divided between four conservative and four liberal justices.