Regardless of your opinion of Kavanaugh do you think he tried to rape Ford

[Slander and/or Libel]

Innocent until proven guilty

Theres not even a preponderance of evidence so even if we are going by standards of a civil case he still would be not guilty.

Strongly disagree.

No official testimony or no official investigation even has begun yet

If neither of those things happens within the next 2 weeks, this matter should be considered closed and the vote should happen.

The party that is interested in proving this never happened controls how testimony goes and whether or not there's an investigation. So basically all they have to do is tell you it didn't happen and you believe them. Sweet.

[Slander and/or Libel]

I don't think it happened, but I don't think she's lying. I assume she's filling in details from a traumatic experience that she didn't talk about for decades. Nobody else remembers what happened the way she did and its not like minors in a college party are in a good state of mind for perfect recall. I'm not really inclined to take her word as gospel with nothing else even sort of supporting it and nothing likely to emerge supporting it either.

"I don't want to look callous so I'll say I "believe" her, but I'll edit what she's saying selectively so I don't have to actually hold anybody accountable who agrees with me politically."