Twitter Rips Trump’s Support for Roy Moore: ‘Sexual Predator Endorses Sexual Predator’
President Donald Trump finally broke his silence on the allegations of sexual misconduct and predator behavior against Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore by issuing a quasi-endorsement of the man.
The president asserted Moore “totally denies it” and added that his Democrat opponent Doug Jones would be bad for the state. “We don’t need a liberal Democrat in that seat,” said Trump, issuing his support for alleged child molester. As shocking as the near-endorsement would be for presidents in previous administrations, Twitter was not surprised after POTUS threw his weight behind Moore.
See how the top pundits, commentators, and journalists responded to the president excusing the Moore allegations:
Trump has now declared Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly and Roy Moore to be innocent of dozens of allegations of sexual harassment/sexual assault/pedophilia. Himself, too, of course.
— Terry Moran (@TerryMoran) November 21, 2017
Donald J. Trump.
Pro-Putin.
Pro-Pussy Grabbing.
Pro-PedophilesAmerica is clearly great again. https://t.co/vOqwtgaJ7H
— Elon James White (@elonjames) November 21, 2017
The president just essentially re-endorsed a man credibly accused of, in his 30s, having molested a 14 year old girl and sexually assaulted a 16 year old girl. https://t.co/cvdQM8uCFn
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 21, 2017
So Doug Jones, a lifelong prosecutor who convicted the monsters that murdered four little girls is “soft on crime,” but Roy Moore, the district attorney alleged to have molested a child and sexually assaulted a 16yo is not.
Got it.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 21, 2017
Hard to understand how the president says it’s a “special time” for women right now while he defends Roy Moore and questions accusers.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 21, 2017
Sexual predator endorses sexual predator https://t.co/EbOlLdgSp9
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 21, 2017
Doug Jones’ primary biographical pitch is that he successfully prosecuted KKK members for the Birmingham church bombing https://t.co/jxO85OvcPd
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 21, 2017
Kinda weird he is acknowledging it’s his own supporters who he is implying are liars. https://t.co/gbEwx9WL4f
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) November 21, 2017
mr president…. .. … . .. . . . thank you https://t.co/MYCpgYeu1D
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 21, 2017
Trump insisted the Central Park Five were guilty after they were exonerated by DNA evidence and a confession.
But Roy Moore “totally denies it” is good enough for the next U.S. Senator apparently.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) November 21, 2017
I’m old enough to remember when child molestors were considered more dangerous than liberal democrats. https://t.co/BMAAKDfJP3
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) November 21, 2017
The holiday came early for Steve Bannon pic.twitter.com/IN1ZROy07I
— Nathaniel Meyersohn (@nmeyersohn) November 21, 2017
Trump’s standard for male guilt apparently is: “he says he didn’t do it, so I believe him.” Applies equally to Roy Moore and Vlad Putin.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 21, 2017
Donald Trump: I immediately believe some rando that says the first black president is illegitimate but not multiple women credibly alleging a pattern of serial abuse. pic.twitter.com/4MW6gWN9Ui
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) November 21, 2017
Reporters: are Nazis bad?
GOP senators: yes
Trump: who’s to say
Reporters: should a sexual predator serve in the Senate?
GOP senators: no. Moore should drop out
Trump: still better than a Democrat lol
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) November 21, 2017
You can’t say “don’t vote for the lib,” pretend there is an imaginary third option you could be alluding to, and then claim you didn’t just encourage Alabama residents to vote Roy Moore in
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) November 21, 2017
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