GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/WOMEN: “Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore’s lawyer tried to discredit one of the women who has accused him of sexual misconduct, and President Donald Trump chose not to weigh in on the Alabama Senate race that is dividing his party on Wednesday [11-15-17].
Moore lawyer Phillip Jauregui in a press conference questioned the woman’s veracity and suggested Mr. Moore’s signature may have been forged in a high-school yearbook the woman displayed as evidence of their 1977 interaction…
Other allegations against Mr. Moore involved teenagers when he was in his 30s, but he wasn’t married at the time…
Republicans in Washington are calling on Mr. Moore to drop out of the race before the Dec. 12 special election, but some Alabama Republicans are rallying behind the former judge…
The press conference by Mr. Jauregui in Birmingham represented the first formal effort by the Moore campaign to dispute the allegations against him that, in his early 30s, he engaged in sexual misconduct with teenagers.”
-Janet Hook and Joshua Jamerson, “Roy Moore’s Legal Team Tries to Discredit Accuser,” The Wall Street Journal online, Nov. 15, 2017 07:27pm