Hegseth has tended to blame “left-wing media” for turning him into a victim of a “smear campaign” orchestrated by “anonymous sources.” I was eight months pregnant with my second child — a boy — when Christine Blasey Ford sat in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and bravely recalled the trauma she claimed she endured at the hands of soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh . My son was kicking my ribs as I fought back tears while Ford testified that the laughter from the man who