Video: Conservatives dismiss Christine Blasey Ford's report that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her Written by John Kerr Published 09/17/18 3:20 PM EDT When California professor Christine Blasey Ford came forward to say President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were high school students, right-wing media smeared her as an “opportunist,” questioned the timing of her allegations, complained this is “an attempted political assassination of a character,” argued Ford needs to be pressed about her “political bias,” and more: