Gary Marcus

Everybody in America should read this report in detail; every senator who has publicly doubted Ford should apologize.https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1044830895822303236 …

That’s headline is quite misleading. None of those people are claiming to corroborate the truth of the claims or the event itself; only that they did in fact hear those claims being made. All were told about the event by her years later.

I don’t personally doubt the truth of her story. But if you tell a number of people a story about your car being stolen, we wouldn’t normally describe those people’s recounting of that story as “corroboration of your claims.”

If you think reporting a sexual assault is as trivial as reporting a stolen car, you are delusional. The important point here is that people who are willing to testify under oath were told about the incidents years before the SC nomination.

And we should believe them because of what again? Is it because they are getting financial rewards from others? Besides, being told about something is second-hand knowledge which could be false. It does not make you a witness to the claimed incident. How lame.