Because Donald Trump is a liar, a coward, a con man, an amoral blob of goo, and a man charged by more than a dozen women of sexual assault, he has been pretending at being coy in his support for child molester and sexual predator Roy Moore, the anti-Constitution but pro-child-rape piece of human trash who is currently seeking office as Alabama's next senator. Trump had been attempting to do this by demanding that Alabama voters not support Moore's opponent, prosecutor Doug Jones, under the theory that it doesn't matter what you think about child molestation—what's really important here is that rich assholes get tax breaks. Republicans don't think Doug Jones will play ball on that one, so that just leaves the child molester as Republican voters’ only possible choice.
Trump had gone so far as to schedule a rally in panhandle Florida, just a skip away from the Alabama state line, so that his not-quite-endorsements of the child molester get broadcast into the state without his Royal Highness Garbage Fire Von Sex Criminal having to technically step into the child molester’s state to do it. Because, as we mentioned, the man is a garbage fire.
Since Trump is also an idiot, however, he wasn't able to play that game for very long, finally letting the cat out of the bag this morning—and so Roy Moore's wife had a very special Twitter announcement.
Judge Moore just got off the phone with President Trump—we have his full support! Thank you Mr. President! Let's MAGA!
Yup, Trump did it. He called up the child molester to express his full support. He didn't have to, but child predators (a reminder, here, that Trump reportedly made it a pageant habit to wander into contestant dressing rooms under color of his pageant-owner authority, while teenage contestants were naked) apparently have a strong personal bond that mere laws or ethics or politics cannot sunder.
Moore wasted no time touting Trump's call, issuing a press release announcing his fellow child predator's "support and endorsement." (The White House confirmed that Trump indeed "endorsed" the pedophile, so the interpretive dance of ambiguity, on Garbage Fire's part, is now officially over.)
President Trump called Judge Moore a "fighter"
Well, we know Moore can "fight" teenage girls who are attempting to escape his car while he's assaulting them. Is that what Trump means? It's almost certainly what Trump means.
and expressed his eagerness to have Judge Moore fighting for his agenda in Washington.
The agenda is child molestation. I don't give a rat's ass what else you want to call it, but when two politicians get together to bond over charges of pedophilia and sexual assault, no case can be made that what's really important here is some rich asshole's tax cuts. It. Don't. Fly.
The President wrapped up the call with a "go get 'em, Roy!"
We'll accept that one at face value. Donald Trump indeed concluded his conversation with a serial predator of teenage children by telling the pedophile: "Go get 'em, Roy!"
Of course he did.
And no, other Republicans aren't standing up for their "principles" or for the notion that no matter what else the Republican Party may at this point stand for, they at least will draw the line at actual child molestation. They're keeping their mouths shut. Mitch McConnell tried his hand at having a spine, then tossed it away again on yesterday's Sunday shows. The party is all-in on the child molester, because if a child molester can help them gain even a tiny sliver of additional power they will shake hands with the child molester every goddamn day.
(Please chip in a few dollars today to help get Doug Jones elected to the US Senate. There are only days left for Jones to get his message out to Alabama voters.)