visited her at her home and tried to speak to her as she was leaving a classroom where she teaches graduate students. Another reporter called her colleagues to ask about her. On Friday, the New Yorker reported the letter’s contents but did not reveal Ford’s identity. Soon after, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) released a letter from 65 women who say they knew Kavanaugh when he attended high school from 1979 to 1983 at Georgetown Prep, an all-boys school in North Bethesda. [...] As the story snowballed, Ford said, she heard people repeating inaccuracies about her and, with the visits from reporters, felt her privacy being chipped away. Her calculation changed. “These are all the ills that I was trying to avoid,” she said, explainingFBI had done it, Trump and the GOP would be screaming bloody murder over it.

The leaves one single solitary source for the leak: the White House.

As soon as the FBI added the letter to Kavanaugh’s background file, it was available for White House counsel Don McGahn to review and share with whomever he liked. I submit he deliberately shared it with the press for various reasons.

First, it was reported back in August by Politico that Trump would welcome being impeached because he feels that it would backfire on Democrats, because he’d never be convicted and removed by the Senate.

“If they take the House, he wins big,” explained former Trump adviser Barry Bennett, with others hearkening back to the impeachment of ex-President Bill Clinton, who grew more popular after