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Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona sex-crimes prosecutor who questioned Ford during her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday, noted in her official report on Ford’s testimony that Ford’s ever-changing story was likely affected by the behavior of Ford’s attorneys, as well as the Democratic lawmakers and their staffs who interacted with Ford prior to her testimony. Mitchell noted that Ford’s story seemed to change with each telling. In a July 6 text to the Washington Post, Ford claimed she was assaulted in the “mid 1980s.” That changed to the “early 80s” in a July 30 letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Similarly, she claimed that the assault happened to her in her “late teens,” before claiming that it happened when she was 15. Ford also claimed to not know where the alleged incident even happened, who took her there initially, or how she got home afterward. Ford’s account of the number and identity of individuals at the party in question has also changed repeatedly. Thus far, she has failed to provide any corroborating evidence whatsoever to support her account. Furthermore, each individual she named as having witnessed the alleged event either failed to corroborate her account or outright refuted it.