A Perfect Tweetstorm: Senate And FBI Must Probe Whelan Hoax
Saying he “deeply” apologized for smearing the innocent man, a Maryland middle-school teacher, Whelan tried to erase the widely mocked Twitter thread under his name.
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And despite ethics expert Whelan’s empty vow to take “full responsibility” for the fabrication, a series of hard questions is unavoidable: How did this demented fable take shape? Who else was involved in concocting it? Where did Whelan obtain the name and yearbook photo of the man he attempted to frame? As an adviser to the White House nomination team, did Whelan discuss this plan with his longtime friend Kavanaugh? Did Whelan, a manager of previous GOP judicial nominations, share the scheme with White House counsel Don McGahn, who is overseeing Kavanaugh’s confirmation? Was Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society honco advising Trump on judicial nominations, in on the plan too?
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Whelan should be investigated for any possible criminal activity that may have been related to his hoax.
Right after the ethics investigation against Feinstein for the partisan timing of her leaks.
Another conspiracy theory?
Whelan didn't fabricate a 'conspiracy', he fabricated a character assassination in a disgusting attempt to infer that Ford's accusation was a case of mistaken identity and to protect Kavanaugh.
First off, my reason for posting that to John was because that is what he always says when news of FBI wrongdoing is revealed. Now to your point. Ya, it does seem that Whelan was trying to fight fire with a nuclear weapon. The sad part of all that was implicating an innocent person. The last thing we need right now.
So your comment was a back door dis against John. Got ya. Bad Form.
'Sad'? Whelan is an operative, and pretty freaking high on the food chain in the GOP. With malice and forethought, he defamed an innocent man. Ya, 'sad'.
Y'all see 'conspiracies' at every turn but seem to think that there is 'nothing to see here' with Whelan, who is working with the WH on the Kavanaugh confirmation. So y'all want us to believe that Whelan, who is eminently connected to the process, did this all on his own, yet we're suppose to accept that anyone and everyone with any connection to the process who opposes Trump is part to the 'deep state'.
It drips with hypocrisy.
My comment was fair and appropriate. Members of the FBI & DOJ have been ousted for lying & leaking. That is a lot more than a theory to be dismissed.
but seem to think that there is 'nothing to see here' with Whelan
I don't even know if it's worth responding. When I say "he implicated an innocent person" it can hardly be taken as me downplaying what he did. Somehow you make the claim anyway.
Good to see that Whelan offered his resignation from the RWNJ "Ethics and Public Policy Center", but too bad he was only given an indefinite leave of absence.
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I wonder if that's what Kavanaugh should do with his seat on the DC Circuit? Regardless of what happens with his current confirmation vote you can be damn sure that at some point in the near future the FBI will be asked to investigate the allegations about attempted rape and Congress will consider impeaching him. It's a real shame the GOP refuses to do the right thing now and have the FBI investigate.
It's still a dis.
Who was ousted for leaking?
Yet nowhere near enough to support the ridiculous 'deep state' bullshit.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
By 'ethics' they mean religion. Lots of 'churchifying' on their website. Wonder what they say about 'bearing false witness'?
"They" are Whelan. He is the President. Do you actually think that they would address it on the website. "They" are silent about this and are doing their best to pretend that there's 'nothing to see here'.
BTW, imagine if the President of a 'liberal' think tank had done what Whelan did. Trump's tweets would be epic and it would be 'BREAKING NEWS' on Fox for days. Hell, HA would have posted multiple seeds about it by now.
WTF are you talking about Tex? What makes you think I didn't 'go to the source'? You're ASSUMING shit again.
BTFW, I am a 'stranger on the internet' and YOU asked ME what their website said about it...
Pffft.
BTW, comment on the TOPIC, not on ME. Only warning...
There are definitely some indications that the White House or other GOP operatives were involved since Whelan learned of Ford's identity before it was made public but shortly after the WH learned of it:
There was a Republican ex House member named David Jolley on a tv show last night. To sum up what he said it is that Kavanaugh should withdraw his name from consideration for the seat on the Supreme Court.
Even if he gets passed through onto the court by the Republicans, his reputation is tainted beyond help.
Before Ford came forward many people were saying Kavanaugh should be denied the seat because of his lying to the committee and the refusal of the Republicans to provide documents from his time at the Bush white house.
Now we add to that Ford's accusation, and credible information that Kavanaugh was around and likely participated in the sorts of "parties" that Ford is describing, among the privileged teenagers at private prep schools in the 1980's. Kavanaugh was a drunk, and hung in a sexually promiscuous and perhaps sexually aggressive crowd.
Does that make him surely guilty of attempted rape? Not at all, but it does mean he will have the cloud over him for the rest of his life. Given that truth, he needs to decline the nomination to the Supreme Court. His place there will be forever tarnished by questions about his past. Shit happens. If Trump didnt need someone like Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court to argue that Trump is above the law, maybe common sense would have prevailed and Kavanaugh not been nominated.
The only reputations that have been stained are those of senators like Feinstein, who most Republicans at least had more respect for than the new crop of self admitted socialists and race baiters. She has made a mockery of this whole confirmation.
If Kavanaugh is confirmed the only people who will believe he is tainted are left wing partisans and hacks- the same group that has been moaning about Thomas on the court for years.
There is no evidence except hear say and character assassination. Democrats have disgraced themselves.
The seed isn't about Feinstein or Democrats. Address the topic.
Fabricated and perpetrated by the President of Ethics and Public Policy Center, Ed Whelan, who is advising the WH on the Kavanaugh confirmation.
Whelan is a Republican.
Whelan put out a half baked conspiracy theory that he apologized for and withdrew. Last I checked that is not a criminal act. The only person who has any claims of damage is the guy who looked like Kavanaugh, and that would be a matter for civil courts. The Senate and FBI have bette things to do than chase down every conspiracy theory on Twitter.
Right because y'all immediately stop gnawing on bones after apologies are made. /s
BTFW, that 'half baked conspiracy' was covered by Fox 'News' and other RW media outlets.
Yet it SHOULD preclude him from being included on a WH team of ANY kind.
Which I hope he pursues with a defamation case.
Someone should inform Trump.
Actually it's the left that says apologies should be good enough and the matter closed- when it's one of theirs.
And if pushing conspiracy theories is good enough to lose a WH job (which Whelan might not even care about) then Susan Rice should've been gone the next day.
I'm just curious why you are so concerned about the career of a National Review writer. I don't realize you were such an avid reader of theirs.
Really? Lind to examples?
What 'conspiracy theory' was that?
WTF are you talking about?
Your not realizing something is no surprise to me...
In semi-related news it seems that the guy helping to coordinate the GOP's response to the allegations against Kavanaugh was fired from a previous job due to sexual harassment. He's now "resigned" from both his job as the communications aid to the judiciary committee and from the private sector PR job from which he had been on a leave of absence while serving the committee.
I wonder if there are any Republicans who aren't misogynistic creeps?
It does seem like they are scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring all hands on deck for this confirmation.
BTW, I know a couple of Republicans that are awesome guys.
My Dad I think was one of the last, yes, he had his problems, IMO, but, he would have been yelling from the rooftops on this and, calling for Kavanaugh to step down.
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