Wohl says that Cass contacted him again around October 1, after seeing for the first time a photo of Mueller, who was named special counsel in May 2017. Why hadn’t Cass previously seen a photo of one of the most famous men in the news in the previous 15 months? According to Wohl, she’s not political and doesn’t watch the news. “She doesn’t even own a TV,” he told me after the press conference.

As of press time, Wohl hadn’t yet provided TWS with any evidence he had taken out a Craigslist or Angie’s List ad in early 2018. But he was adamant that, out of 330 million people in the United States, one of the few people who saw his Internet ad and contacted him was a woman who would realize for the first time in September 2018 that Robert Mueller was her alleged rapist. What are the odds?

Just before the press conference ended, one attendee asked Burkman and Wohl: “Are you both prepared for federal prison?”

“Ah, no, we are not,” Burkman replied.