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Donald Trump breaks silence to back Roy Moore staying in Senate race
UK Telegraph ^ | Nov. 16, 2017 | Ben Riley-Smith

Posted on 11/16/2017 8:36:10 PM PST by Innovative

Donald Trump has backed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore remaining in the election race despite multiple claims of sexual harassment of teenage girls.   Mr Trump believes that “Alabama should take the decision” about their next senator and that Mr Moore should only quit if the allegations are proved.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; moore; roymoore; senate; trump
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To: Innovative

But I read in an American newspaper that Trump has been silent on the issue...


141 posted on 11/17/2017 7:28:58 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Hannity threw Moore under the bus.


142 posted on 11/17/2017 7:31:10 AM PST by petercooper ("Democrats are on a collusion course with destiny in 2018." -- Bill Mitchell 5/26/17)
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To: vette6387

Well I gave Trump the benefit of the doubt with his initial endorsement — as my own impression of Moore was that he was a nice man, but there was something unreliable or shaky about him. (Not what he is being accused of right now. That did not cross my mind.) Also, I tend to trust Sarah Palin’s instincts as well, and Moore was her guy.

- What put Strange in the GOP-E’s good graces?


143 posted on 11/17/2017 7:31:17 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: kvanbrunt2
No 6....She didn't react? Yeh right...Her mom was right there and could have turned around at any moment...

And Moore's wife was his secretary at the time.

144 posted on 11/17/2017 7:35:42 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: MileHi

Excellent move!


145 posted on 11/17/2017 7:37:50 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"And if I can make a zinger of sorts, Moore didn’t kill anybody."

And on Howie Carr's program women would call in who were getting into politics when they were young and attractive were told not get caught in the elevator with the Oldsmobilian Submarine Commander as he he had Roman hands and Russian fingers and you'd be groped. He was a pig, plain and simple.

We will not see behavior like this from Judge Moore, and he won't need be buried in Arlington to protect his grave.

146 posted on 11/17/2017 7:54:34 AM PST by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry of Men!....)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Innovative.
Powder is scarce and must not be wasted. Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Then aim low. Aim at their waistbands, aim at the handsome coats; pick off the officers. -- Israel Putnam

147 posted on 11/17/2017 8:27:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: MileHi

Right on, Mr. President.


148 posted on 11/17/2017 8:34:45 AM PST by alstewartfan (If you should leave me now A sudden wind will blow your mansion down. Al Stewart)
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To: vette6387

“Moore has the misfortune of having both the RATs and the RINOs trying to submarine him.”

Lately, voters are against both, so it might be more of an advantage than a disadvantage.


149 posted on 11/17/2017 9:15:29 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Innovative

How does it back Moore by letting the will of the people vote? Isn’t that what our founders wanted? Pfft msm was all in a tizzy yesterday about this.


150 posted on 11/17/2017 9:24:21 AM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! It is offical, we are at war!)
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To: hsmomx3

Ivanka needs to save her breath to defend Jared. Mueller’s going to drop a perjury indictment on him.


151 posted on 11/17/2017 10:45:53 AM PST by damper99
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Gutsy, typically Trumpian and non-political call. No one who has merely been accused of something, where there is no way of coming up with any evidence 40 years after the fact, should cave.

Otherwise we’ll wind up with a UK-like witch hunt (Google the recent cases of TV personalities being prosecuted based on ‘he said/she said’ allegations of behaviours from 40+ years ago! That’s madness.

I still don’t like Moore very much due to his behavior on the bench as a Justice of the Alabama S Ct.

Let the people of Alabama decide. Fortunately there is enough time left for people to digest what’s been happening. If these allegations had come out a week or two before the election he would probably have lost.


152 posted on 11/17/2017 11:12:00 AM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: damper99

Would not be surprised. I have to admit I have never trusted Jared.


153 posted on 11/17/2017 11:17:12 AM PST by hsmomx3
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To: Innovative

Funny, as liberal and left wing European news is, they still print things that make US media uncomfortable.


154 posted on 11/17/2017 11:17:51 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: MountainWalker

Except I don’t think it was the Dems that are running this. I think it is McConnell, Rove and friends. And Fox News ran fake polls showing Trump was 5 pts behind Hillary.


155 posted on 11/17/2017 11:21:52 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Innovative

Good!


156 posted on 11/17/2017 11:51:37 AM PST by BAW (There is a Storm coming.)
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To: ColdOne

It isn’t what was said that is important, it is what is NOT said. Just not joining the baying Lynch Mob supports the Judge.


157 posted on 11/17/2017 1:42:11 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: vette6387

Absolutely, and it IS nepotism, of THE worst possible kind!


158 posted on 11/17/2017 1:45:51 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Democrat_media
The sexual allegations against Moore AND Trump are lies. The democrats are pure evil marxists .democrats got these women to fabricate those lies against these 2 good men.
Well, you and I weren’t there - which is conveeeenient for whoever is lying in this case (both cases).

But for sure, the charges against both men were made with a view to disenfranchising people who intend to vote against Democrats.

And that is reason enough to dismiss them. What if you don’t vote or, worse, vote Democrat - and the Democrat wins and you find out later that the charges are bogus??? Worse yet, you might find out that the Democrat is a worse perp than anything alleged against Moore - and nobody told you about it because journalists systematically oppose Republicans!!

The downside possibility is only that someone who was a loathsome Democrat 38 years ago - and turned his life around, and has long been happily married and a Republican - gets elected instead of a present-day Democrat who would have voted against the public interest getting elected.


159 posted on 11/17/2017 2:52:07 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I would like to go back and gather all the dump Senator Moore freepers that sniped and ankle biter those first days. Most if not all were not from Bama. Fair weather conservatives.

This was obviously a SRC hit from the start because Big Luther lost. Ultimate taking their ball and going home even if the country gets screwed. Let that sink in. They prefer a communist over a conservative if they can’t be king makers.


160 posted on 11/17/2017 2:59:34 PM PST by wgmalabama
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