White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short: If Donald Trump Didn't Believe Accusations Were Credible, Trump Would Be In Alabama Campaigning For Roy Moore
Sources for this quote,
Archived Today: https://archive.ph/MWZ8Z
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Source for Roy Moore winning a defemation case related to false statutory rape accusations.
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Wayback Machine Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220823101132/https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/23/roy-moores-defamation-case-victory-sends-a-message-about-the-actual-malice-standard/
Yeah I wasn't referring to dating a 19 year old I was referring to the many sources saying that he creeped on teen girls of all ages in his 30s.
I'm the libertarian type who pushes back against the overly aggressive age of consent laws and people trying to expand what pedo means. I don't think a guy is a bad guy for dating a teen girl in isolation, but when a large number of sources say that he was basically exclusively chasing jailbait and barely legal girls in his 30s that's creepy as hell and not what I want to see in a person I vote for.
It also really undermines the credibility of the Right to make groomers a wedge issue in elections and then back Moore, who seems like quite the groomer since there were a lot of women who said back when they were under 16 he creeped on them.
Never a good sign.
He definitely was a terrible candidate, and preying on 15-18 girls is very bad. That said, it's rather different from what the left does. This was the (imperfect) norm throughout history. Destroying their bodies is not.