Democrats are pretty sure they know why President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to be a Supreme Court Justice. And it may have less to do with Roe v. Wade than you may suspect.

It is, they claim, a Nefarious Plot to keep Trump from prosecution.

Take, for instance, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, who said this:

“I think Trump nominated him because of Mueller and to be free from prosecution.”

She also noted that Sen. Richard Blumenthal of NY called Kavanaugh a “get out of jail free card” for Trump.

They weren’t the only Democrat Loony Tunes, either.

Here’s what Sen. Chuck Schumer claimed during a news conference:

“Why did the president stick with Kavanaugh? Because he’s worried that Mr. Mueller will go to the court to ask the president be subpoenaed and ask to do other things necessary to move the investigation forward. And President Trump knows that Kavanaugh will be a barrier to preventing that investigation from going there.”

And here’s what Sen. Cory Booker said on the PBS News Hour:

President Trump "literally selected the one person who has a pretty good written record of saying, 'Hey, if you're a president under investigation, I don't think you should be allowed to be under criminal investigation,'" Sen. @CoryBooker tells @JudyWoodruff. pic.twitter.com/6yvnTKo6RN

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) July 10, 2018

Of course, the It Girl of the Democratic party — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat Socialist running for a House seat from NYC — not only scooped out the Evil Plot, but she also declared Kavanaugh to be automatically disqualified! Because she’s smart like that!

The fact that #ScotusPick Kavanuaugh believes that a President cannot be indicted is an automatic disqualification from Supreme Court consideration.

Plain and simple. https://t.co/3h2k2rTYVI

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 10, 2018

Do you take what these people say at face value? You don’t? Well, neither do I. So let’s see what Kavanaugh really said, shall we?

Now it’s true that Kavanaugh wrote this in 2009 in the Minnesota Law Review:

I believe it vital that the President be able to focus on his never-ending tasks with as few distractions as possible. . . But I believe that the President should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office.

But hold on — he also wrote this later in the article:

Congress is free to provide a temporary deferral of civil suits while the President is in office. Congress may be wise to do so, just as it has done for certain members of the military. Deferral would allow the President to focus on the vital duties he was elected to perform.

Congress should consider doing the same, moreover, with respect to criminal investigations and prosecutions of the President. In particular, Congress might consider a law exempting a President—while in office—from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel.

In other words, it’s Congress’s job to determine whether or not to exempt a President from prosecution — not the Supreme Court’s. And Congress did nothing about settling this, did they?

So now Congressional Democrats use these writings to concoct a conspiracy theory.

But wait, there’s more. Like context, people, context. Even former RNC chair Michael Steele — no fan of President Trump — notes that Kavanaugh wrote this opinion piece as a response to what he saw while working under Ken Starr during the Clinton Impeachment Circus.

Furthermore, Kavanaugh wrote his Law Review article in 2009 — nine years ago, in a different political time and under a different president.

Again, to paraphrase James Carville, It’s the Context, Stupid! 

But the Dems are counting on their followers to go full tinfoil hat on the Kavanaugh nomination. Because Trump is evil, and therefore he must have had some nefarious plot in mind when he gave Brett Kavanaugh the nod.

I swear, Trump could’ve nominated Mother Teresa to the Supreme Court and they would’ve found something fiendish about that, too. Oh, wait. Mother Teresa opposed abortion. Never mind, then.

Do you smell something really pungent? Like the smell of desperation among the Democrats? And that smells like. . . victory.