Some ads showed Jenkins sporting a 2008 Clinton campaign button. And after complaints from the Jenkins campaign, Morrisey's put out a paper providing at best a shaky circumstantial case that Jenkins might have voted for Clinton in the 2008 West Virginia primary-but might not have done so at all. Ballotpedia fact-checked the claim (along with the closely associated claim that Jenkins supported "cap and trade" legislation) and found it to be unsupported by actual facts.

If Morrisey's HRC-flavored attack was highly and deliberately mendacious, Jenkins' retaliation was way over any imaginable line.