Re: certainty, I don't know what happened on July 1, 1982. I think it is likely something happened similar to what Dr. Ford described, but I believe that both parties have genuinely different recollections of the facts and what they mean. Certainly my experience in the Army suggests that traumatic events have ways with screwing with people's memories- very frequently the traumatic moment will be seared into someone's mind but a lot of the details surrounding the trauma blur together. It made it difficult gathering intel from patrols that had been in a firefight.
But I know for certain that Kav is a liar. I know for certain that "devil's triangle" is not a drinking game, that boofing in a yearbook is not farting, that getting into Yale law school doesn't mean shit as evidence of whether or not you partied hard in college, that Renate alumnius means he was bragging about having banged her in high school, that he did watch Dr. Ford's testimony, that he mischaracterized what a supreme court justice does etc...
And I know that he lied about all of those things under oath. Which is a federal felony (18 U.S.C. 1621) on its own.
Ford was honest about the limits of her memory. Kav was indignant that he had to be bothered. He's an entitled lying prick. Conservatives have shelves full of identically qualified jurists-- two of them with solid ties to Notre Dame-- who aren't well documented liars and lifelong creatures of the DC swamp.
