All of the so-called "witnesses" that just "learned contemporaneously" of an act would not be witnesses. Rather they would be giving hearsay evidence, and would be laughed out of court. This is exactly the case with this matter. Some pro-abortionist made an unsubstantiated claim about Thompson, and a few started repeating it.
This charge against Thompson comes from the left. Why are conservatives repeating it? It doesn't have legs.
It isn’t being repeated by Conservatives.
It is being repeated by weasels, aka pissant.