Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump's "support" for Alabama Republican Roy Moore (if you can call it that since Trump won't use his name) stems in part from Trump's own experience with sexual misconduct allegations.
Although, are they allegations if the president copped to them? Like the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape that captured Trump boasting he likes to "grab'em by the pussy?"
According to the NYT, Trump has now asserted that that tape is fake.
He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.)
As everyone in the world knows, just hours after the video surfaced Trump issued a statement which read, in part, "I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize."
This morning on CNN, host Chris Cuomo was gobsmacked that the Donald would even attempt to claim "fake" over a year later when he acknowledged the veracity of the tape at the time.
“I think it is way more troubling than it is getting credit for,” Cuomo said of Trump’s newly reported denials. “I don’t think this is an offhand comment. I think he believes this will work with people. That if he doubts its authenticity. That is him. On. That. Tape! Okay? That’s who it is. He said what he said. He even kind of owned it.”
Some folks believe the new "fake" story is Trump's preparation for any new video or audio that may be revealed by the investigation being headed up by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Trump is getting ready to call any and all evidence against him "fake."
Watch Cuomo and company below.
He has already forgotten that he admitted to it.— Ad'm Martin 🖖 (@queercrip) November 27, 2017
He just knows that his supports are ignorant enough to believe anything he says currently. https://t.co/wyvGc7asC5— Eli Lieb (@elilieb) November 27, 2017
By the way, if Trump believes in Roy Moore so much, why isn't he campaigning for the guy before the election? Other than he's probably seen the polls and doesn't like the political calculation...?
BREAKING: White House official: Trump will not campaign for embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore before Dec. 12 election.
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 27, 2017
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