Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, started a long thread on Twitter in which he suggested that Christine Blasey Ford could have mistaken now-Judge Brett Kavanaugh with a classmate. He then went on to implicate an innocent man and blamed Senator Feinstein’s “shockingly shoddy handling of the whole matter” for his choice to do so.
Christine Blasey Ford denied that she mistook now-Judge Kavanaugh for a classmate when she accused Judge Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, of attempting to rape her when they were teenagers.
Ed Whelan removed the tweets and replaced them with an apology on Twitter, stating “I made an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment in posting the tweet thread in a way that identified Kavanaugh’s Georgetown Prep classmate. I take full responsibility for that mistake, and I deeply apologize for it. I realize that does not undo the mistake.”
I made an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment in posting the tweet thread in a way that identified Kavanaugh’s Georgetown Prep classmate. I take full responsibility for that mistake, and I deeply apologize for it. I realize that does not undo the mistake.
— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) September 21, 2018
The tweet thread in question has since been deleted. Screenshots of the tweets, which have been edited to remove the name, address and layout of the childhood home, and photographs of the innocent man, are included below.
