“There is an operational answer to your question and it is accurate and it’s in my written statement and I’ll stand behind every line of it. The timeline was genuinely compressed.

My knowledge of the architecture was genuinely unique. Those things are true.

“They are also not why I was in that room.

“Eight months pregnant, at a gala in November of 2018, my husband’s mistress leaned over the back of my chair and asked me whether I pushed papers in a gray cubicle.

My mother-in-law was wearing a brooch bought with my deployment pay and called me an expensive, lethargic burden in front of six women. I said nothing.

I was proud of saying nothing. I told myself it was discipline.