On Thursday, Supreme Court chosen one Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has blamed Kavanaugh for rape, will be addressed by the Senate Judiciary Committee amid an open hearing. Both are permitted to give introductory statements, which were made accessible on Wednesday. 

In Dr. Portage's comments, she expresses, "I am here today not on account of I need to be. I am panicked. I am here in light of the fact that I trust it is my municipal obligation to reveal to you the end result for me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in secondary school." She likewise proceeds to state that while she doesn't recollect everything about the day Kavanaugh struck her, she remembers the subtle elements of the genuine attack. She goes on portray a similar occurrence she told the Washington Post when she previously approached: Kavanaugh and his companion Mark Judge pushed her into a room at a gathering, where Kavanaugh got over her, grabbed her, and put his hand over her mouth to shield her from shouting. She was in the long run ready to escape and came up short on the house. 

She likewise discussed the effect of the attack, expressing, "Brett's strike on me definitely adjusted my life. For quite a while, I was excessively anxious and embarrassed, making it impossible to tell anybody the points of interest. I would not like to tell my folks that I, at age 15, was in a house with no guardians present, drinking brew with young men. I endeavored to persuade myself that in light of the fact that Brett did not assault me, I ought to have the capacity to proceed onward and simply imagine that it had never occurred... I had never advised the points of interest to anybody until May 2012, amid a couples directing session. The reason this came up in advising is that my better half and I had finished a broad rebuild of our home, and I demanded a second front entryway, a thought that he and others couldn't help contradicting and couldn't get it. In disclosing why I needed to have a second front entryway, I portrayed the attack in detail." 

Passage likewise portrayed how she attempted to choose whether she should impart her ambush to the Senate: "As the hearing date drew nearer, I battled with a horrendous decision: Do I share the certainties with the Senate and put myself and my family in general society spotlight? Or on the other hand do I protect our security and enable the Senate to settle on its choice on Mr. Kavanaugh's selection without knowing the full truth about his past conduct?" She repeated that after her name was made open, her family has been the objective of death dangers and badgering. 

In Kavanaugh's introductory statements, he totally denies the allegation, and additionally different allegations that have become known over the most recent couple of days, including those from Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick. He states, "In the course of recent days, other false and uncorroborated allegations have been disclosed. There has been a furor to concoct something—anything, regardless of how fantastical or evil—that will hinder a vote on my assignment. These are a minute ago spreads, unadulterated and straightforward." 

He likewise safeguards his activities in secondary school, saying that while he drank, his activities never added up to strike: "I invested the greater part of my energy in secondary school concentrated on scholastics, games, church, and administration. Yet, I was not impeccable back then, similarly as I am not flawless today. I drank lager with my companions, normally on ends of the week. Some of the time I had too much. All things considered, I said and got things done in secondary school that influence me to recoil now. Yet, that is not why we are here today. What I've been blamed for is unmistakably genuine that adolescent bad conduct. I never did anything remotely looking like what Dr. Passage depicts."