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. 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. 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.

Source: Huffington Post September 21, 2018 15:22 UTC