2. Remember when Kavanaugh was first nominated there was a spate of articles by women testifying to his good character -- a great carpool dad, coach of girl's basketball team, mentor to young women etc.
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3. And remember how the girl's basketball team came out for Kavanaugh at the hearings? All of this hardly seems like a coincidence.
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4. There might be a different reasons why Kavanaugh's political allies wanted to make the pitch he's good for women: to deflect from worries about overturning Roe, GOP numbers are bad with women. But one other reason comes to mind: They knew this story was out there..
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5. And of course the were able to quickly get 65 women who knew Kavanaugh when he went to an all boy's school to say he was a real little gentleman. Nothing suspicious or premeditated about that!
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6. So, to speculate: there might have been some inkling in White House about sexual assault story & they tried to preemptively arm against. Which is hard to believe but Trump has a pattern of defending accused men (himself, O'Reilly, Ailes, Porter, Moore, etc).
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7. Again, this is speculation. There needs to be reporting. Counting against this theory is that its nutso for even a Trump White House to go forward with a risky nominee if they have list that (presumably) includes jurists of same stripe who don't have accusations against them.
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8. Here's the thing: the judicial nomination wing of the White House is where the Trump administration is reputedly the most professional. So it's a hell of thing if they went into this with eyes wide open.
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It's so pathetic that none of the GOP men have any interest in protecting women's access to abortion. Among them, certainly some of their wives, girlfriends and daughters have had one.
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