This is important. Go back through Whelan’s tweets over the last week. He’s been hinting at this revelation for a few days. Other very connected conservative legal prof types have been RTing and commenting in response making clear they knew this was coming and seemed ...
2/ to know at least the outlines of the story. These folks are close to Don Mcgahn in addition to Kavanaugh. Two days ago I heard from a legal prof who noted these cryptic tweets were spurring chatter in the legal academic world about what blockbuster these guys knew.
3/ Point is that it’s very clear a group of Whelan’s high profile associates were looped into this. Almost impossible that McGahn and Kavanaugh knew nothing about it. Whether they knew Whelan was going to go public with it, no idea. But beggars belief that they didn’t at ...
4/ catch wind of it. Again, scan back through the last few days of Whelan’s tweets.
5/ Going back to my point from earlier this evening, most likely scenario is that Whelan et al. pitched reporters on his theory - which would have allowed him to stay in the background. But no one went for it. (I mean who the hell would?) So he (they?) decided he had ...
6/ to force the matter himself.
