Sarah Wasko / Media Matters Fox & Friends, President Donald Trump's favorite morning news program, on Friday promoted a conservative activist's shockingly reckless theory postulating that Christine Blasey Ford's statement that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the 1980s is actually a case of mistaken identity. Ed Whelan, a former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and the president of the think tank the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is among the nation’s foremost conservative legal commentators.