It seems that Roy Moore doesn’t know how to offer a response to the allegations against him that isn’t some variation of “FAKE NEWS!” When he tries to actually respond to the charges, he only makes himself look foolish. For instance, he claims that Beverly Young Nelson had no problem letting him handle the divorce. But court documents show that she never even appeared before him, and she tried to reconcile with her husband before she would have ever appeared before Moore.
On Tuesday, Moore tried again, this time turning his guns on Leigh Corfman. One of his longtime aides, Ben DuPre, claimed that in 1979, Moore’s initial accuser lived more than a mile from the place where she says Moore picked her up—and the campaign had the court documents to prove it. He called out WaPo for not digging this up.
But when WaPo’s reporters wanted to see the documents for themselves, they got this response.
The Post requested documentation to support DuPré’s description of another address on Tuesday, and a spokeswoman for the Moore campaign said she would try to respond. On Wednesday morning, after another request for the information, Brett Doster, a strategist for the Moore campaign, sent an email to The Post.
“The Washington Post is a worthless piece of crap that has gone out of its way to railroad Roy Moore,” Doster wrote in an email he described as an “on the record” statement. “There is no need for anyone at the Washington Post to ever reach out to the Roy Moore campaign again because we will not respond to anyone from the Post now or in the future. Happy Thanksgiving.”
So Moore rails about the allegations being the product of fake news. But when a paper actually wants to do what any decent journalist would do, it’s a “worthless piece of crap”? Yeah, that’s going to make your libel suit look good, Roy.
Sounds like yet another case where an attempt to actually respond to these charges has fallen flat.