November 13, 2017: Wow! Judge Roy Moore! Wow, Wow, Wow!

 

11/13/17: Wow! Judge Roy Moore! Wow, wow, wow! A fifth woman accuses him of sexual harassment, this time Beverly Young Nelson. Mrs. Nelson points out that she and her husband voted for President Trump. 

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“No one will believe you.” You’re only a “child.” 

Judge Roy Moore

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As she explains, when she was sixteen, Moore (then a county prosecutor) offered her a ride home one night, after she finished a shift as a waitress. He immediately began groping her and touching her breasts. “I tried fighting him off,” she said, “while yelling at him to stop, but instead of stopping, he began squeezing my neck, attempting to force my head onto his crotch.”  

Finally realizing he couldn’t force her to perform, Moore warned her not to complain. “No one will believe you,” he said. You’re only a “child.” 

The young girl used makeup to hide bruises on her neck, told her sister about the attack two years after the fact, told her mother years later, and related what happened to her husband before they married. 

Now Moore, the man who made a Ten Commandments statue his shield and criticizing those who failed to live by those rules his brand, has been accused by five women, all teens at the time they claim they were attacked.

Judge Moore and his 10 Commandments statue.

 

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LET’S NOT FORGET President Trump. During the campaign he was accused by five former teen beauty contestants of walking into their dressing rooms while they were naked or partially clothed. 

Trump’s base insisted the story was a liberal smear. 

Then CNN dared to dig up a conversation Trump had with shock jock Howard Stern in 2005. At the time, Trump was proud to admit (at least with older contestants) that he could get away with anything he liked. “I’ll tell you the funniest [part of running the beauty pageants] is that I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed,” Trump told Stern. 

No men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it….“Is everyone OK?” You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. “Is everybody OK?” And you see these incredible-looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that [emphasis added].

 

Jia Tolentino, writing for The New Yorker, revisits a list of accusers who came out against Candidate Trump. “By the end of October [2016],” she notes, “twenty women had gone on the record to describe Trump’s sexual misconduct. Twelve of them recounted being physically violated, corroborating Trump’s own description of his behavior – he grabbed women by the pussy, he said to Billy Bush, because he could.” 

So he did.