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| Donald Trump seems to endorse alleged child sex abuser Roy Moore for Senate: 'We don't need a liberal democrat' | Donald Trump seems to endorse alleged child sex abuser Roy Moore for Senate: 'We don't need a liberal democrat' |
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| US President Donald Trump appeared to have endorsed accused child sex abuser Roy Moore for a seat in the US Senate. | US President Donald Trump appeared to have endorsed accused child sex abuser Roy Moore for a seat in the US Senate. |
| Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One with his family, Mr Trump said "we don't need a liberal Democrat" in the Alabama seat left vacant by the appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. | Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One with his family, Mr Trump said "we don't need a liberal Democrat" in the Alabama seat left vacant by the appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. |
| Mr Moore, 70, has been accused by several women of sexual misconduct when he was in his 30s and working as a District Attorney in Alabama and they were just teenagers. | |
| He is running for Senate against Democrat Doug Jones. | He is running for Senate against Democrat Doug Jones. |
| Mr Trump also said that Mr Moore "denies it. If you look at what is really going on and you look at all the things that have happened the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didn't happen. You know, you have to listen to him also. You're talking about...40 years ago." | |
| The conservative Christian values candidate denied all accusations and any wrongdoing repeatedly. | |
| He also said on Sean Hannity’s Fox News programme that he never dated any women without their mother’s permission. | |
| Several prominent state Republicans have come forward defending the grandfather of five and called into question the timing and motivation of the several women who told their stories. | |
| Mr Moore has also called famed attorney Gloria Allred - representing accuser Beverly Young Nelson - of being “a sensationalist leading a witch hunt, and she is only around to create a spectacle.” | |
| Ms Nelson produced a high school yearbook which Mr Moore had written in, using the signoff “Love, Roy Moore, D.A.” His attorney has said a handwriting analysis should be performed on the yearbook to prove if it is indeed Mr Moore's signature. | |
| His wife of 32 years, Kayla Moore, has been one of his most ardent supporters. She also said during a campaign rally the campaign and Republican supporters "are gathering evidence of money being paid to people who would come forward. Which is part of why we are filing suit!” | |
| In its original report the Washington Post spoke to 30 sources, four of whom agreed to go on the record, about Mr Moore’s alleged child sex abuse. | |
| The paper wrote: “While reporting a story in Alabama about supporters of Moore’s Senate campaign, a Post reporter heard that Moore allegedly had sought relationships with teenage girls. Over the ensuing three weeks, two Post reporters contacted and interviewed the four women. All were initially reluctant to speak publicly but chose to do so after multiple interviews, saying they thought it was important for people to know about their interactions with Moore. The women say they don’t know one another.” | |
| The legal age of consent is 16 in the state of Alabama, so one particular accuser - Leigh Corfman - has caught the attention of the public since she said she was 14 when Mr Moore allegedly forced her to touch his genitals and kiss him. | |
| Supporters of Mr Moore have attacked Ms Corfman for declaring bankruptcy, being married multiple times, and her problems with drug use - all of which she herself disclosed to the newspaper. | |
| More follows… | More follows… |