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DonViejo

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Fri Nov 10, 2017, 10:47 AM Nov 2017

Bannon compares Moore accusations to infamous Trump Access Hollywood tape

By LOUIS NELSON 11/10/2017 07:30 AM EST

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday likened a report that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore had a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl to last year’s publication of the infamous Access Hollywood tape, telling a New Hampshire audience that The Washington Post, which published both, is “part of the apparatus of the Democratic Party.”

"The Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump, is the same Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped the dime this afternoon on Judge Roy Moore. Now is that a coincidence?” Bannon said in remarks that were reported by CBS News. “That's what I mean when I say opposition party, right? It's purely part of the apparatus of the Democratic Party. They don't make any bones about it. By the way, I don't mind it. I'll call them out every day."

Moore has denied the allegations in the story published by the Post, which also reported that the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice also sought sexual relationships with three other women who were teenagers at the time. Top Republicans, among them Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have said Moore should step aside from the race if the allegations are true.

The Post’s report adds fuel to the unease that already existed among Washington Republicans about Moore’s candidacy. The ex-judge was twice thrown off the bench in Alabama, once for refusing to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the state judicial building and again for refusing to recognize the Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. He has said that “homosexual conduct” should be illegal and that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress.

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Bannon compares Moore accusations to infamous Trump Access Hollywood tape (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP
He's not wrong... vi5 Nov 2017 #1
 

vi5

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1. He's not wrong...
Fri Nov 10, 2017, 11:12 AM
Nov 2017

..both are irrefutable proof that the GOP and their religious minions are nothing but hypocrites. Both are proof that they aren't interested in any morals or values or teachings beyond just beating liberals and Democrats.

Both are proof that GOP voters are by and large human garbage.

Oh wait, I'm sorry I should probably wait until they actually vote Moore in before I say that. Gee I wonder if they will or not?

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