The accuser of the Trump candidate to the Supreme Court agrees to testify in the Senate

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The president of the United States attacked frontally to Blasey Ford, to that questioned on the silence that maintained on the case during more than thirty years

The woman whose accusation of sexual assault threatens the nomination of President Donald Trump's candidate to the Supreme Court of Justice of the United States accepted on Saturday to testify before the Senate, although the details of the hearing have yet to be negotiated.

The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to hear from Christine Blasey Ford, the 51-year-old college teacher who accuses Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a night of teenage drunkenness in the 1980s in a Washington suburb. The magistrate vigorously denies the accusations and has also agreed to testify.

The alleged victim ratified his intention to speak before the legislators, but at the moment it has not been possible that Blasey Ford and the commission before which he must appear agree on the exact date and modality of the hearing. While Blasey Ford's lawyers said on Saturday that their client is ready to give their testimony "next week," they have not proposed a precise date and instead offer to resume discussions about it, according to an email published by the Washington Post. .

The confrontation has been several days. On Friday, the Republican who chairs the judicial committee, Chuck Grassley, sent an ultimatum to Blasey Ford to testify next Wednesday and threatened that if the university refused to organize a session on Monday 24 to confirm the appointment of the judge, without listening your complaint.

Christine Blasey Ford does not want to testify before Thursday and intends to call a witness who was present on the day of the alleged assault, which would have occurred when she was 15 years old and Brett Kavanaugh.

What is played is a lot. Should Kavanaugh be confirmed in this lifetime position, the progressive judges will be in the minority for a long time in the highest court in the United States, which has jurisdiction over numerous issues that divide society, such as the right to abortion. Republicans want the vote to confirm him in office to take place before mid-term elections in November, in which they could lose control of Congress.

"Until now the Republicans (...) do not agree to their request to testify on Thursday and not on Wednesday. It's only 24 hours "apart, California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris tweeted, a few minutes after the lawyers' mail was broadcast. "I support your firm courage in the face of the arbitrary, unjust and irrational orders established by President Grassley," said Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member along with Harris of the judicial committee.

Knowing the challenge, on Friday Trump attacked Blasey Ford frontally, to which he questioned on the silence that maintained on the case during more than thirty years. "If the attack against Dr. Ford was as terrible as she counts, then charges would have been filed immediately with the local authorities," the president tweeted.

Thousands of people protested the questioning of the victim's word on the part of the White House occupant and spoke publicly of their cases, explaining, under the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport, why they did not report them at the time they occurred.

«Because I was 18 years old and I was terrified. I thought they would not believe me, "tweeted Gretchen Whitmer, Democratic candidate for governor of the state of Michigan. «I knew my attacker. I did not want to break my parents' hearts and not be defined by the violent and criminal act of a person ».

According to the Department of Justice, in 2016 about 325,000 people were victims of rape or other acts of sexual assault, but only 22.9% reported it to the police.

The head of Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, said Friday that Trump had "spurned" a "person who survived a trauma." "We must treat survivors of sexual assault with respect, not intimidate them or pretend to force them to remain silent," protested Democratic lawmaker Dianne Feinstein.

In her testimony, initially published in the Washington Post, Blasey Ford explained that Kavanaugh and a friend, being "completely drunk," had cornered her in a room, lying on a bed and pretending to undress her, before she managed to escape.

In an article this Saturday in the Washington Post Christine Blasey Ford's husband, Russell Ford, says that the mention of Kavanaugh in the media after the appointment of Trump aroused painful memories in the woman. "She said 'I can not stand this,'" Russell Ford said. «I can not live in this country if he is in the Supreme Court»