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Kavanaugh friend stirs outrage with Twitter conspiracy theory on Christine Blasey Ford


https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/09/21/kavanaugh-friend-stirs-outrage-with-twitter-conspiracy-theory-on-christine-blasey-ford/23535106/

"...the President the Ethics and Public Policy Center"? Typical GOP double speak: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." And now ethics are lies.

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HuffPost US
MARINA FANG
Sep 21st 2018 11:56AM


A conservative lawyer and friend of Brett Kavanaugh’s who has been instrumental in boosting his Supreme Court nomination backtracked after posting a detailed conspiracy theory on Twitter designed to discredit Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school.

“I made an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment in posting the tweet thread in a way that identified Kavanaugh’s Georgetown Prep classmate,” the lawyer, Ed Whelan, tweeted Friday. “I take full responsibility for that mistake, and I deeply apologize for it. I realize that does not undo the mistake.”

On Thursday night, Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, posted a series of tweets laying out a conspiracy theory suggesting that Blasey misidentified Kavanaugh in her accusation. Whelan claimed instead that a high school classmate of Kavanaugh’s assaulted Blasey, posting detailed information about the classmate.

He has since deleted the tweets.

 Blasey rejected Whelan’s theory in a statement to The Washington Post, saying that she knew Kavanaugh and the classmate and once visited the latter in the hospital.

“There is zero chance that I would confuse them,” she said.


Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which may hear testimony from Blasey and Kavanaugh next week, sought to distance themselves from Whelan, who has advised on Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. Whelan is also friends with Leonard Leo, the president of the Federalist Society, which has played a crucial role in shaping conservative judicial nominations.

On Friday the White House said that it “had no knowledge” of Whelan’s theory before his Thursday night tweets.

Whelan told The Washington Post on Friday that he had “not communicated at all” with White House officials or Kavanaugh about the conspiracy theory.

Others have tried to defend Kavanaugh by similarly calling into question Blasey’s allegation and trying to discredit her.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said this week that she may have been “mistaken” and that “clearly somebody’s mixed up.”


{Yeah, Orrin, Obviously you are the person in question!}

The Wall Street Journal editorial board this week posited that “mistaken identity is also possible,” and The Washington Post ran a piece by opinion columnist Kathleen Parker under the headline “Is There a Kavanaugh Doppelganger?”

After refraining from calling out Blasey directly, President Donald Trump on Friday questioned why she didn’t immediately call police after Kavanaugh’s alleged assault — continuing his pattern of attacking sexual assault accusers and suggesting that they are lying.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.



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9/21/2018, 8:05 pm Link to this post PM crogin
 
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I heard on the radio from someone who went to school in Georgetown during the time the incident happened that while they both went to private schools, his was the classiest so the more classist one, while hers was for "them other" people who matter less than we, special sons of the real elite of Georgetown, do.

'Georgetown Preparatory School is a Jesuit university-preparatory school in North Bethesda, Maryland for boys grades 9 through 12. It is among the most selective boarding schools in the United States and the only Jesuit boarding school in the country." Wikipedia

So given Kavanaugh said 'what happened at Georgetown Prep STAYS at Georgetown Prep" pretty much suggests n his own words, it is just as sexiest and misogynist, ironically, in ways similar to both the Catholic Church and Las Vegas .

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Kavanaugh-said-happened-Georgetown-Prep-STAYS-Ge...
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I assumed it was a huge party, according to the professor it took place in a home with 4 other people. I can't imagine that none knew nothing at all.
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