Melania says women need to show evidence of sexual assault - a slap in the face to Kellyanne Conway?

And for heaven's sake, I wish her publicists would stop saying she's "fluent" in English. Sorry - she's not. Just listen to her ABC interview which aired this morning, and listen to her Anderson Cooper interview from two years ago - the woman is clearly not fluent in English, just like millions of other immigrants whom the President has chastised.

I agree - but what Melania said was totally against the movement, and against Kellyanne Conway's story. Imagine how Conway must feel this morning? Knowing she's caught up in the arena of "doubtful at best" since she won't elaborate or provide evidence of her claim?

"I hate that #metoo movement as they make all women who come forward with sexual assault accusations look bad/look like frauds. It's become too saturated in our society.

The truth of the matter is that some women who make claims like this are liars and some are being truthful. It's VERY difficult to distinguish between those two anymore now that #metoo exists."

You know what? Your attitude damn well P!SSES ME OFF. It's "become" too saturated in our society because it has and still is happening too damned often. It shouldn't happen at all. If it does, it should be in the extreme minority of crimes.

The fact is you haven't a clue what it's like to be a woman and subject to crimes such as this. That's clear, or you'd never say what you did.

I was in a similar situation as Ford was, except there were 6-8 more guys involved, only 2 of whom I could identify, I was slightly younger, the door wasn't locked to my knowledge, I couldn't tell you a single other person who was at that party if my life depended on it, and I didn't fear for my life. I wasn't raped, but I was assaulted. I did not participate in #metoo, although I certainly could have done.

Years after that I *was* nearly raped, and it scared the hell out of me. You have NO IDEA what that's like, and apparently no compassion for it either.

Until this Kavanaugh thing, I'd never spoken about it to anyone. Until now, I've never said anything about the second incident. I am FAR from the only one.

Have there been women who've said #metoo when nothing happened to them and they only wanted attention? No doubt. but it would be a small percentage, because look what happens to them when they speak out. Who the HELL, aside from someone with some serious mental issues, needs or wants *that*?

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Sure, you can write me off as some anonymous person on a message board, with questionable credibility, and yet that takes nothing away from the fact that these things happened to me, and to many other women, many if most of whom never participated in #metoo either.

Until now, I've never told anyone about the second incident, not even my closest friends. Never told anyone about the first either, until I told a MovieChat friend about it privately, and then publicly. All related to Kavanaugh.

I too believe Kavanaugh is guilty of these actions, and like you, it's based on his demeanor. Who prevaricates the way he did, consistently, and doesn't have something to hide? Let alone a federal judge, who certainly should know better how to conduct himself. But I don't say that out of partisanship, and it seems to me that you do. That's what I take issue with. This isn't, or shouldn't be, about partisanship.

Imagine yourself as a straight male, which it seems obvious to me you are, and being sexually assaulted by one or several boys or men. Seriously, IMAGINE that! If you have the humanity in you to do that, you may start to understand what this is like, and if you can begin to understand that this is a common experience, but that many are too ashamed to speak out about it, even with #metoo, maybe you can begin to understand.

For sure.

Have you ever found it strange how a lot of Melania's public snubs of Trump (refusing to hold his hand, for example) have suddenly stopped lately? Now she's been spotted holding his hand and she goes on the news, sticking her neck out for him when she was a HELL of a lot more quiet and reserved a year ago.

I'm sure Trump gave her one of those "tow the line" conversations more than once.

Former Federal Prosecutor Sunny Hostin had this to say on television this morning, which should clear up many misconceptions on admissible evidence in sexual assault charges:

"We finally said a woman's word is enough. I've taken many cases to trial with just a woman's word. And now you have the First Lady of the United States telling women everywhere your word is not enough. I think it does so much damage, and quite frankly, that isn't the law...

Testimony is evidence! You don't need corroborating evidence. You don't need a rape kit. You don't need witnesses because oftentimes, guess what? There are no witnesses during rape! When you're talking about evidence, testimonial evidence is the very best in the system!

And the law is very clear that testimonial evidence, a woman standing there taking an oath and saying this happened to me is enough. You don't need a witness. You don't need forensic evidence. You need someone's truth, and we heard Dr. Ford's truth."