A little perspective on this for norms. Not suggesting this length.
Anita Hill 1991
'You didn't really intend to kill him, but you might have'
"All we've heard for 103 days is about a most remarkable man, and nobody has come forward, and they scoured his every shred of life, and nobody but you … has come forward," then-Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wy., told Hill.
"It seems to me, you didn't really intend to kill him. But you might have," the senator said about Hill's allegations against Thomas. "And that's pretty heavy, I don't care if you're a man or a woman."
Simpsons said it was "very troubling" to him that a man's life can be can ruined by a "devastating charge" that "no one has corroborated" and compared her allegations to
"a singular torpedo blow below the water line." 'You didn't really intend to kill him, but you might have'
"All we've heard for 103 days is about a most remarkable man, and nobody has come forward, and they scoured his every shred of life, and nobody but you … has come forward," then-Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wy., told Hill.
"It seems to me, you didn't really intend to kill him. But you might have," the senator said about Hill's allegations against Thomas. "And that's pretty heavy, I don't care if you're a man or a woman."
Simpsons said it was "very troubling" to him that a man's life can be can ruined by a "devastating charge" that "no one has corroborated" and compared her allegations to
"a singular torpedo blow below the water line."
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-now/6-moments-from-the-1991-anita-hill-and-clarence-thomas-hearings-and-what-may-await-ford/465-161137c1-3c33-4150-a17e-f9d42c8a541c