North Carolina GOP Official Shares Fake Photo of Christine Blasey Ford, Says She Wasn't a Hot Teen
NewsPoliticsA North Carolina official is the latest, and perhaps grossest, example of the Republican party’s desire to mock sexual assault survivors.
The News & Observer reports that Cabarrus County Republican Chair Lanny Lancaster shared a Facebook post that claimed to be a photo of Christine Blasey Ford in 1982. In the photo, a teenage girl is wearing braces and thick, tinted glasses (you may recognize the photo from a 2012 meme). “This is the alleged sexual assault victim. Wow,” Lancaster wrote in the post. Ford was 15 at the time of her alleged assault.