my take on what happened tonight in the Kavanaugh story/controversy and Whelan's bizarre ass twitter thread (sub req) talkingpointsmemo.com/prime-beta/my-…
2/ This of course seems wild to think a seemingly soon to be scotus justice wld be involved in something so wrong and so stupid. but as I explain in the piece. Whelan is Kavanaugh’s close friend and one of his top confirmation advisors. Whelan is close to Leonard Leo and ...
3/ Don McGahn too. We have solid reporting that Kavanaugh and his advisors have been planning a defense theory like this. There’s good circumstantial evidence they’ve been shopping this story for two or three days. To think that one of his top advisors ...
4/ came up with a specific and highly detailed story that tracks exactly with the one they’re pushing and somehow he never mentioned any of it to Kavanaugh or the rest of the confirmation team ... well that’s just laughable.
