Roy Moore on Saturday promised there would soon be “revelations” on the “motivations” of those accusing him of sexual misconduct. During a Veterans Day event in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, the Alabama Senate candidate questioned why his accusers didn’t come forward sooner and warned voters of what he described as a Democratic conspiracy against him. “To think that grown women would wait 40 years... to bring charges is absolutely unbelievable,” Moore said. “There are investigations going on. In the next few days, there will be revelations about the motivations and the content of this article,” Moore said, referring to the Washington Post story that first revealed the claims. The report cited four different women who said Moore pursued them sexually or touched them inappropriately when they were underage. The youngest accuser said she was 14 at the time of the alleged sexual misconduct. “Isn’t it strange that after 40 years of constant investigation people have waited until 4 weeks prior to the general election to bring their complaints?” Moore said Saturday. He went on to call the story “fake news” and “an attempt to divert attention from the true issues which affect our country.”
Yeah, I expect these "revelations" to be trotted out alongside Barack Obama's "real" birth certificate.
It seems these GOP assholes always have some secret evidence that proves their point or exonerates them in some way.
The Attorney for one of the accusers had this to say:
The lawyer for one of the women cited in The Washington Post's story about sexual misconduct by Senate candidate Roy Moore says it is "reprehensible that so many Alabama Republican officeholders" have rejected the evidence.
Gloria Deason told the Post she went on dates with Moore in 1979, when he was 32 and she was 18. Deason told the Post that Moore ordered her alcoholic drinks even though she was under the legal drinking age.
Deason's lawyer, Paula Cobia, has released a statement blasting Moore for "incendiary statements about the women." She says Deason stands to gain "no glory, no financial compensation, no justice."
Cobia says Deason has no affiliation with either the Republican or the Democratic party, and has never contacted Moore's election opponent, Democrat Doug Jones.
Of course this did not keep Moore's supporters from attempting to intimidate or frighten these women into backing down.
By the way the reason that women sometimes wait decades before feeling safe enough to finally go public and talk about their abuse is because of shit like that tweet.The coward deleted it. @jack @biz @TwitterSupport needs to ban this serial harasser who uses Twitter to put innocent people’s lives in danger. http://pic.twitter.com/ors1NtYTU3— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) November 10, 2017
Men did not always have Twitter to bully and intimidate their victims, but doing so is a long and well established tradition.
And that is essentially what that lawyer referenced above said after hearing this crap from Moore.
It looks like Roy Moore better start producing these "revelations" of his.“Roy Moore is publicly making defamatory statements about the 4 brave women” — new statement from Paula Cobia, attorney for Gloria Deason http://pic.twitter.com/m0I2O3TZmp
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 11, 2017
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