President Trump Has Backed Embattled Senate Candidate Roy Moore
If you’re reading this, you are awake. Reports of President Trump’s social media-based endorsement of Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore are not a nightmare. The President is, in actual, real AF waking life, backing a man who has been accused of sexually assaulting eight women, most of whom say they were underage when Moore molested them.
Trump’s first pro-Moore tweet also somehow managed to place the blame for the whole alleged-child-molester-as-senator fiasco at the feet of the Democratic Party. How? By accusing House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of not cooperating with Republicans to pass Trump’s apocalyptic (for everyone except the super-rich) tax bill. Here’s Trump’s latest head-spinning tweet:
Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2017
Which was followed up by:
Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2017
Next—just as we were all about to breathe a sigh of relief and/or bitter exhaustion thinking that was all there was—Trump reportedly put in a call to Moore (a man who supports the right to refuse cake to people based on religious grounds but is accused of giving alcohol to a 14-year-old before removing her clothing and assaulting her in his home). The phone call, wrote Moore’s wife on her Facebook page, was to officially express support for his candidacy in the election set to take place on December 12.
Kayla Moore says her husband just got off the phone with President Trump. https://t.co/QvW4gJaD6G pic.twitter.com/OhGPCPRO00
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) December 4, 2017
We realize that you’ve probably reached the point in this story where you just can’t take anymore, but there’s one more important thing to mention: the most recent election polls show Roy Moore with a slight lead over his Democrat opponent Doug Jones. Most Republican voters (71 percent of them) don’t believe the allegations made against Moore. Also, we still don’t have an app that presents the latest Trump-related news in the style of Star Wars’ opening crawl. Weren’t we promised that?
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