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Brett Kavanaugh wins the Roy Moore endorsement — not that he asked for it
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Miloch
Sep 20, 2018, 11:43:11 AM9/20/18
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Roy Moore, hitherto occupied with suing people who accused him of sexually
predatory behavior during his failed GOP Senate campaign in Alabama, has lent
his unsolicited endorsement to the similarly troubled Supreme Court nomination
of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Moore first came to the nominee’s defense Monday — a day after a California
professor told The Washington Post that Kavanaugh had tried to rape her in high
school — when he shared a supporter’s quip with his 80,000 Facebook followers:
“They are Trying to ‘Judge Moore’ Him with Unproven Sex Assault Claim.”
The verb, “to Moore,” proved popular in the former Alabama judge’s circle of
remaining loyalists but didn’t spread far beyond it.
President Trump and many of the Senate Republicans trying to salvage Kavanaugh’s
Supreme Court nomination have abandoned Moore since he lost Alabama’s U.S.
Senate election to Democrat Doug Jones, after more than half a dozen women
accused Moore of pursuing them when they were teenagers.
The series of allegations began with a Post report in November, a month before
the special election, headlined: “Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual
encounter when she was 14, he was 32.”
But as Kavanaugh’s friends spoke out to support him and his accuser Christine
Blasey Ford wavered on whether she would testify against the judge next week,
Moore made his sympathies explicit.
“Brett Kavanaugh, like me, has withstood numerous investigations and vetting by
the most rigorous legal and political authorities,” he wrote in a statement
published Tuesday evening.
Moore followed up his statement with an interview that aired Wednesday on One
America News Network, a right-leaning outlet whose reporter saw a “striking
resemblance” between the Moore and Kavanaugh situations — two solid
conservatives on the cusp of securing powerful positions when decades-old
accusations suddenly went public.
“They don’t care about transparency,” Moore said, referring to Democrats who
seized on the accusers’ claims in both cases. “They know that on the one hand,
you offend women if you believe somebody that says they weren’t guilty of sexual
misconduct. On the other hand, if you don’t believe them, you’re condemning the
person accused of guilt to prove his own innocence. It’s a Catch-22. ”
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Roy Moore, hitherto occupied with suing people who accused him of sexually
predatory behavior during his failed GOP Senate campaign in Alabama, has lent
his unsolicited endorsement to the similarly troubled Supreme Court nomination
of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Moore first came to the nominee’s defense Monday — a day after a California
professor told The Washington Post that Kavanaugh had tried to rape her in high
school — when he shared a supporter’s quip with his 80,000 Facebook followers:
“They are Trying to ‘Judge Moore’ Him with Unproven Sex Assault Claim.”
The verb, “to Moore,” proved popular in the former Alabama judge’s circle of
remaining loyalists but didn’t spread far beyond it.
President Trump and many of the Senate Republicans trying to salvage Kavanaugh’s
Supreme Court nomination have abandoned Moore since he lost Alabama’s U.S.
Senate election to Democrat Doug Jones, after more than half a dozen women
accused Moore of pursuing them when they were teenagers.
The series of allegations began with a Post report in November, a month before
the special election, headlined: “Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual
encounter when she was 14, he was 32.”
But as Kavanaugh’s friends spoke out to support him and his accuser Christine
Blasey Ford wavered on whether she would testify against the judge next week,
Moore made his sympathies explicit.
“Brett Kavanaugh, like me, has withstood numerous investigations and vetting by
the most rigorous legal and political authorities,” he wrote in a statement
published Tuesday evening.
Moore followed up his statement with an interview that aired Wednesday on One
America News Network, a right-leaning outlet whose reporter saw a “striking
resemblance” between the Moore and Kavanaugh situations — two solid
conservatives on the cusp of securing powerful positions when decades-old
accusations suddenly went public.
“They don’t care about transparency,” Moore said, referring to Democrats who
seized on the accusers’ claims in both cases. “They know that on the one hand,
you offend women if you believe somebody that says they weren’t guilty of sexual
misconduct. On the other hand, if you don’t believe them, you’re condemning the
person accused of guilt to prove his own innocence. It’s a Catch-22. ”
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