Posted on 11/13/2017 3:51:48 AM PST by drewh
Senate candidate Roy Moore said in a speech Sunday night that he intended to file a lawsuit against The Washington Post regarding the story it published Thursday in which he was accused of sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.
Moore spoke at Huntsville Christian Academy in an event closed to the media.
A video of Moore's speech was posted on his campaign Facebook page.
Click here to read AL.com's coverage of Roy Moore. Moore again vehemently denied the allegations in The Post story, which interviewed four women who described romantic or sexual encounters with Moore when they were teens and the Republican nominee was in his 30s.
Moore brought up the allegations near the end of a 40-minute speech.
"About three days ago, The Washington Post published another attack on my character and reputation in a desperate attempt to stop my political campaign," he said. "These attacks about a minor child are completely false and untrue. And for which they will be sued."
Moore then received an ovation from the crowd - one of many that occurred during the speech. At the end, Moore received a standing ovation.
The Senate election against Democrat Doug Jones is Dec. 12.
Moore also adamantly said that he had no intention of dropping out of the race nor of being forced to leave the race.
"We do not intend to let the Democrats, we do not intend to let the established Republicans, we do not intend to let anybody deter us from finishing this race," Moore said. "We fully expect the people of Alabama to see through this charade. And we will continue our efforts."
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Moore has repeatedly denied the allegations raised in The Post story. According to The Post, Moore met with a 14-year-old girl and took her to a remote place, removed her clothes, touched her over her bra and underpants and guided her hand to touch him over his underpants.
The girl, Leigh Corfman, told The Post that Moore introduced himself to her and her mother at the courthouse in Etowah County. Moore was an assistant district attorney at the time.
Three other women said they had romantic encounters with Moore while they were in their teens but the physical relationship never progressed beyond kissing.
Moore said in a Friday interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity that he was conducted his own investigation into The Post allegations and briefly alluded to that investigation in his Sunday speech.
"We've still got the investigation going on," he said. "We're still finding out a lot that we didn't know."
Moore has given no indication when he might release the findings of that investigation.
Moore also told the audience that he has a daughter and that he and his wife, Kayla, will celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary two days after the election.
"I have the highest regard for the protection of young ladies," Moore said.
Democrats and the Republican establishment are behind the "attacks" by The Post, said Moore, who also referred to stories the newspaper has written raising questions about the financial activities of Moore's Foundation for Moral Law.
He said the stories about the foundation "kind of failed for them."
"Why have they come now?" Moore said of the sexual misconduct allegations. "Because there are groups that don't want me in the United States Senate. The Democratic Party - they don't want to see me in the United States Senate. There's the Republican establishment, which has spent over $30 million to keep me out of the Senate (in backing former opponent Luther Strange).
"Working together, they realized that my opponent is 11 points behind. They're desperate."
Polling before the allegations indicated Moore led from 6 to 11 points. Since the allegations, polls have shown that the race has tightened and one poll put Jones ahead by 4 points.
"This article is a prime example of fake news, designed to divert attention from the true issues facing our country like health care, military readiness, immigration and raising the national debt," Moore said.
That is exactly what he should do. Let’s take a good inside look at what has taken place here. Our people deserve no less. The truth will set us free.
If Hillary Clinton was 10 feet from a lie detector I think she would burst into flames.
And I might be named the next Miss America. One is just as likely as the other.
If you are willing to help the judge you should contact him, otherwise how is he to know you ares willing?
Agree!! Contact the campaign.
Also, I wonder if Judge Moore can set up a fund to help with legal fees.
WaPo is too smart to bribe outright. Sometimes people are brought to, for example, New York City, for an interview. The trip takes a few days of first class flights and hotels. It’s not bribery per se but .....
No doubt. But to be clear, I mention it because she laughingly dismissed the reliability of them after a guy she was defending for raping a 14 year old girl passed one when she knew damn well he was guilty.
“I don’t know about in anyone else’s state, but in mine, NYS, there is a lot of rumor about a LOT of pols. Everything from sexual degeneracy, infidelity, drug abuse...Nothing ever appears in print, but folks talk. If pols want to start airing dirty laundry, fine by me. And if media wants info all of a sudden, just ask voters.”
And if the Senate tries to unseat Judge Moore, I say, let the games begin. Bring every “smidgen” of $hit on any and all of them RAT and RINO alike out in the open for all to see. You a$$holes in the Senate want to “burn it down to save if for yourselves?” Well let’s just see what’s left of you to continue to launch your “flaming arrows” after we give each one of you a legal proctolgical exam.
Jones ain’t ahead by no 4% points unless they took the poll in downtown Birmingham on a Friday night crackhead meeting of dimocrat drunks.
Maybe, but a threat of a big-money lawsuit can sometimes bring clarity to mind. But then.. in the WaPo we are talking about a gaggle of libs here...
“In doubt even that happened...”
Even if it did so what?
Habitual liars can pass lie detector tests.
Oh come on. Papers like the Washington Post are threatened with lawsuits all the time. Very few go to court and even fewer result in rulings against the paper. If the Post cringed at every threat then they wouldn't publish anything.
Filing it after the election???
FILE NOW!!!
He won’t win. Public figures almost never do.
But, it is drawing an important line in the sand in
maintaining his innocence.
I would not be surprised if Swamp RINOs like McConMan, McPain and FlakeyButt are behind this.
A lawsuit against the WaPo will go nowhere unless he can proved they paid her for very specific allegations.
If they just paid her and the rest to “tell their story”, WaPo will be held harmless. And the suit will likely be thrown out at initial hearing.
However, he does have recourse against the accusers. But that would subject him to discovery and he’d have to be squeaky clean. And terrible optics for a politician.
It disgusts me to no end how many supposed conservatives are jumping on the condemnation bandwagon against Moore.
It is a pretty good axiom to look at who your enemies are to determine if what you are doing is right. If *itch McConnell is against Moore, we know the answer to that.
I’m hoping that we can find out who is bankrolling these accusations.
Me neither! Probably a uni-Party political assassination attempt with both SWAMP DimRats and RINO’s involved!
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