On Tuesday, Roy Moore was faux challenged by Hannity to refute the accusations leveled at him and on Wednesday he issued a statement in which he lied...about Beverly Young Nelson.
“On Wednesday evening, Moore released an open letter in response to Hannity. It began by seeking sympathy. “I am suffering,” he wrote. Moore then attempted to cast doubt on the “false allegations” against him in a few different ways. Regarding Nelson, Moore referenced the accuser’s divorce, for which he was the presiding judge. Nelson, Moore wrote, “was party to a divorce action before me in Etowah County Circuit Court in 1999. No motion was made for me to recuse.” Moore went on to wonder at the notion that this “apparently caused her no distress at a time that was 18 years closer to the alleged assault,” while now, “talking before the cameras about the supposed assault, she seemingly could not contain her emotions.”
The journalist who wrote this piece, Charles Bethea decided to check this story and found:
“This morning, I corresponded with a prominent Alabama attorney who reviewed the filings in Nelson’s 1999 divorce case. Based on those filings, the attorney insisted, Moore’s claims in the open letter are “completely disingenuous.” Nelson, this attorney told me, “was never before Moore,” since the divorce was not litigated. Rather, as court documents show, the divorce was filed, continued, and then dismissed. “These are all unilateral actions by the lawyer for the plaintiff,” the attorney went on. “A lawyer for the other side never even appeared. It is doubtful that these documents were even given to Nelson.” In any case, the attorney told me, Moore, whose signature is only on the motion for dismissal—not the original filing or motion to continue—had no actual discretion over the case.”
I suspect Moore is well aware of this, and Hannity should be, if he cares a wit about being lied to, but he fronts for drumpf, so I guess that is not a consideration for him.
He was back at it this afternoon, conflating Al Franken’s ill-conceived gag photo with an adult adult model with perving in one’s living room with a fourteen year old girl in her underwear.
If Hell exists drumpf, Moore and Hannity should lie to each other for all eternity in it’s hottest corner.