So, a couple of excerpts from various reports about the matter;
Kavanaugh was close to being confirmed in 2018 when a woman named Christine Ford emerged and claimed he sexually assaulted her while they were both attending high school in Maryland. But three witnesses who she named said they didn’t recall that happening, and she was unable to provide any other corroboration.
A close friend of Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to accuse Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, went on the record to say Ford’s story is not believable.
Ford said that one of the people present at the house where Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her while they were in high school was Leland Keyser but, along with everyone else named by Ford, Keyser denied remembering the alleged incident during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings last year.
Keyser has remained silent since then but told New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly that in addition to not recalling the alleged incident, she didn’t think Ford’s story was true.
“I don’t have any confidence in the story,” she told them, according to excerpts of the reporters’ book, “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh,” that were posted online. “It would be impossible for me to be the only girl at a get-together with three guys, have her leave, and then not figure out how she’s going to get home.”
Still, she faced enormous social pressure to back Ford. “I was told behind the scenes that certain things could be spread about me if I didn’t comply,” Keyser said.
Her son, Alex Beckel, wrote in a description for a GoFundMe fundraiser for his mother: “Despite her lifelong friendship with Christine Blasey Ford and her opposition to Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, Keyser resisted immense personal pressure and courageously came forward with the truth, putting everything in her life at risk.