Bill Maher blasts Republicans for unfounded theory about Kavanaugh doppelganger

HBO host Bill Maher on Friday took aim at Republicans for backing a theory that Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, may have confused Kavanaugh with someone who looked like him.

“Republicans, they all get behind the same story,” Maher said on Friday’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” “The one they are all talking about now, today, I can’t even believe this, is that … Dr. Ford perhaps was attacked, but not by Brett Kavanaugh, by someone who looked exactly like Brett Kavanaugh.”

{mosads}”Five people were at the party and one brought a robot double,” Maher quipped before breaking into laughter. “Remember ’80s parties? They were kind of like that, there were a lot of evil twins.”

Maher’s comments came just one day after a former clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia who serves as president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, put forward the theory in a series of tweets, sparking widespread backlash online.

Ed Whelan, a supporter and friend of Kavanaugh’s, reportedly worked with conservative firm CRC Public Relations to promote an unsubstantiated alibi for Kavanaugh on Twitter in an attempt to exonerate him of Ford’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her at a party while the two were in high school in the 1980s.

Ford has said Kavanaugh held her down, groped her and attempted to remove her clothes, also accusing him of covering her mouth to prevent her from screaming for help. It’s unclear how many people were at the party and who was in attendance.

Whelan identified a former classmate of Kavanaugh in the tweets, sharing house floor plans, maps and other photographs to suggest that Ford may have confused Kavanaugh with the other student.

“There is zero chance that I would confuse them,” Ford said in a statement reported by The Washington Post.

Whelan has since deleted the tweets and apologized. 

Kavanaugh and the White House have denied Ford’s accusations.

Kavanaugh has agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about Ford’s allegations. Lawyers for Ford and Republicans on the committee, meanwhile, are struggling to reach an agreement on Ford testifying publicly before the committee next week.