Roy Moore, Alabama Senate Candidate Under Siege, Tries to Discredit Accusers
November 12, 2017 by admin
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“I’ve been investigated more than any other person in this country,” he said.
Although many of Mr. Moore’s supporters in Alabama share his fury and have expressed it in far harsher tones, Republicans have been abandoning Mr. Moore since The Post published its article, which included allegations of sexual advances from three other women.
Beyond their public condemnations of Mr. Moore, some Republicans have been searching for ways to short-circuit his candidacy. Some had favored pressing Ms. Ivey to move the Dec. 12 special election. But on Saturday, her office abruptly cut off discussion about the idea.
“Governor Ivey is not considering and has no plans to move the special election for U.S. Senate,” a spokesman, Daniel Sparkman, said in an email. This week, Ms. Ivey said that the allegations were “deeply disturbing” and that “the people of Alabama deserve to know the truth and will make their own decisions.”
Although Ms. Ivey’s decision was something of a relief for Mr. Moore, other Republicans criticized him on Saturday. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee was unsparing on Twitter: “Look, I’m sorry, but even before these reports surfaced, Roy Moore’s nomination was a bridge too far.”
Mr. Moore is a popular figure among many Alabama Republicans, but party officials fear that if he is elected, he will be an albatross around the necks of their lawmakers and candidates nationwide for years to come. In Washington, Republicans pleaded for President Trump, who endorsed Mr. Moore’s opponent, Senator Luther Strange, in the primary, to intervene.
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But taking questions from reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew to Hanoi, Vietnam, Mr. Trump, who himself has been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment, signaled he was reluctant to reinsert himself in the same Alabama race where his endorsement was so thoroughly disregarded in September.
“I have not seen very much about him, about it,” Mr. Trump said, noting that he had put out a statement through his press secretary on Friday saying that if the allegations were true, Mr. Moore would “do the right thing” and withdraw.
Pressed about the allegations from the four women, Mr. Trump declined to say whether he believed the accounts.
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“Honestly, I’d have to look at it and I’d have to see,” Mr. Trump said. “I’m dealing with the folks over here, so I haven’t devoted — I haven’t been able to devote very much time to it.”
Mr. Trump said he was sticking by his statement, which also said that “a mere allegation,” particularly from many years ago, should not be enough to ruin a person’s life. But he did not rule out abandoning Mr. Moore.
“I have to get back into the country to see what’s happening,” he said.
Ms. Corfman said on Saturday that a firestorm of criticism from Mr. Moore’s supporters — one of them, a state legislator, suggested that she be prosecuted “for lying” — had not deterred her.
“I stand by my story,” she said.
A lawyer for Gloria Thacker Deason, who said she had dated Mr. Moore when she was 18 and he was in his 30s, attacked Mr. Moore’s speech.
“He knows full well why these women did not tell what he did to them before this week,” the lawyer, Paula Cobia, said in an email. “As young teenage girls in the late 1970s, they had no way of knowing their rights, especially against him, considering he was a district attorney at the time.”
Ms. Cobia demanded that Mr. Moore “immediately retract his defamatory statements.”
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