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By the time Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, made the last of his repeated pleas to President Trump to keep his distance from the Senate candidacy of Roy S. Moore, it was too late.
To Mr. McConnell, only the president could extinguish a fire that he sees as endangering Republicans Senate majority. But Mr. Trump, speaking by phone last Tuesday with Mr. McConnell, responded with the same argument he had been making for days inside the White House.
The women who have called Mr. Moore a sexual predator, the president believes, may not be telling the truth.
Forty years is a long time. Hes run eight races, and this has never come up, Mr. Trump said to the television cameras on the South Lawn hours after his conversation with Mr. McConnell, effectively endorsing Mr. Moore before boarding Marine One. He says it didnt happen, the president added. You have to listen to him, also.
Mr. Trumps decision to reject every long-shot plan to save the Senate seat reflects the imperative that an unpopular president faces to retain his political base, a determination that he should follow his own instincts after having felt steered into a disastrous earlier endorsement in the Alabama race, and even his insistence that he himself has been the victim of false accusations of sexual misconduct.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-trump-stands-by-roy-moore-even-as-it-fractures-his-party/ar-BBFD77R?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)And they think we're crazy for caring about our fellow human beings. They suck
Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 25, 2017, 10:56 PM - Edit history (1)
And yes they think we are saps for caring about Americans and the country.
Beartracks
(12,809 posts)... a lá Tweeden's accusations.
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Miigwech
(3,741 posts)should be called "As the Turd Turns" ..... staring your favorite turds, Dotard trump and Roy, a.k.a., 'The Perv'
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Birds of a feather...........
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)their Billion Dollar payday at the IRS window.
DangerousUrNot
(431 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 26, 2017, 03:06 AM - Edit history (1)
Why are they trying so hard to protect this guy? I mean denying many credible witnesses and ignoring that he was barred from the mall. The guy even called a girl during her trigonometry class. I just dont get it.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)Trump looks at young girls and remarks how he'll be dating them in a few years. Which means he was thinking of them in sexual terms when looking at them.
Adult men can rationalize it anyway they want to - if you're looking at my 14 year old and express such a thought out loud, I don't care whether you actually touch her or not - I'm tearing into you.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)still say it is all her fault and/or she is lying that it happened.