Roy Moore emerged after a five day absence from the campaign trail for an interview with a 12-year-old girl for Christian TV.
The Republican Alabama senate hopeful was accused of sexual misconduct and preying on teenage girls last month.
Since then, the typically outspoken conservative has been notably absent from the campaign trail,unavailable for press interviews and even refusing to debate his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, because of his ‘very liberal’ position on transgender rights.
But the one interview he didn’t turn down was a one-on-one sit down with 12-year-old Millie March.
Roy Moore has emerged for the first time in days for an interview with a 12-year-old girl for Christian TV
On Sunday, the America First Project posted a video which showed him being interviewed by Millie March
On Sunday, the America First Project posted a video which showed him being interviewed by the young Republican who is renowned in conservative circles for her rants about Barack Obama at last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.
The young girl quizzed Moore on his support for Trump’s wall with Mexico and what he thought were the big issues for Alabama, before concluding the interview with a friendly handshake.
America First Project said they had set up the interview as a way of showing that Moore had ‘a wide range of support.’
But the decision to put the 70-year-old conservative Christian, who has been accused of molesting a 14-year-old and reportedly banned from a shopping mall for preying on teens, is an odd one.
March is renowned in conservative circles for her rants about Barack Obama at last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference
The young girl quizzed Moore on his support for Trump’s wall with Mexico and what he thought were the big issues for Alabama, before concluding the interview with a friendly handshake
Moore, who has strongly denied dating underage women after his campaign was rocked by accusations last month that he pursued underage women when he was in his 30s, made a final appearance on Monday before tomorrow’s election.
It was his first public appearance in six days.
In comparison, his rival Jones has been holding multiple events every day, speaking to the press and campaigning with other Democrats.
On Monday’s event, Alabama Senate hopeful Moore went after the news media and the establishment as a way to push back against pedophilia accusations.
Moore, speaking in a large Alabama barn used to host weddings and events, called out the Washington Post for producing a ‘terrible, disgusting article,’ where the Senate wannabe’s multiple accusers first went on the record.
The Republican candidate also called bull on reports that asked, ‘Where is Roy Moore?’
‘Because I took approximately two and a half days to take my wife out of this mess and let her relax with her son at West Point,’ Moore explained.
Moore, and his wife Kayla, both fumed at the reporters in the packed room, suggesting that it was their fault the couple had such a tough time on what has become an increasingly toxic political run.
Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore, in an election eve appearance, called an article run by the Washington Post accusing him of preying on teenagers ‘terrible’ and ‘disgusting’
Roy Moore also accused his campaign trail absence saying he spent two and a half days taking his wife to visit their son at West Point, to get her away from ‘this mess’
Speaking about the Washington Post’s revelations that portrayed Moore as someone who serially dated teenagers as young as 14, the ex-judge suggested that accusers timing was off.
‘These women,’ Moore said, ‘had not come forward for 34 years, but they waited 30 days before this general election to come forward.’
Rep. Louie Gohmert, who was an opener for the rally alongside former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon made a very similar point.
Moore tried to cast more doubt on the story by pointing to the admission from Tim Miller, a former Jeb Bush staffer, that he was one of the Post’s sources.
Miller had texted with conservative writers Charles Johnson who then fed the messages to the website Big League Politics.
In politics it’s not uncommon for political operatives to be journalists’ tipsters, but Moore suggested it again proved that the media and the establishment were up to no good.
The embattled candidate’s wife and an old Vietnam buddy also came on stage to testify about his character – although they may have just dug a bigger hole with audiences outside the room.
First came Moore’s military buddy Bill Sailing, who defended the Republican Senate hopeful against pedophilia accusations by describing a time the two men accidentally entered a teen brothel while serving in Vietnam.
Former White House Chief Strategist served as a warm-up act for Judge Roy Moore, the embattled Alabama Senate hopeful at a rally in Midland City, Alabama Monday night
Kayla Moore (left), the wife of embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore (right), said Monday night that the couple’s ‘lawyer is a Jew,’ as evidence that her husband isn’t anti-Semitic
‘I could tell you what I saw, but I don’t want to,’ Sailing first told the crowd, gathered in a large rustic barn used for weddings, before divulging some details. ‘There were certainly pretty girls. And they were girls. They were young. Some were probably very young.’
But as a testament to Moore, he said the candidate had told him: ‘We shouldn’t be here, I’m leaving,’ according to Sailing’s account. ‘That was Roy, honorable, disciplined, morally straight, highly principled,’ Sailing said.
Next to speak came Moore’s wife Kayla, who tsk-tsked the ‘fake news’ suggesting it was the media’s fault that people think her husband ‘doesn’t support the black community’ nor do they like Jews.
‘I tell you all this because I see you all and I want to set the record straight while we’re here,’ she said motioning to the slew of journalists at the back of the room.
‘One of our attorneys is a Jew,’ Kayla Moore stated.
Earlier in the event, Bannon had savaged the establishment, belittling a number of Republicans including Mitt Romney and Sen. Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican who has proved himself a thorn in President Trump’s side.
At Romney’s mention, one vocal Moore fan simply shouted, ‘Loser!’
Moore hinted, however, that he sometimes didn’t mind when the media wasn’t right.
‘For example, Fox News came out today and said my opponent was 10 points ahead of me,’ he noted. ‘On the same day Emerson had me nine points ahead of him.’
He pointed out that tomorrow one of the men would have to win.
Despite the sexual misconduct allegations, President Trump is backing Moore, although many other national Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have distanced themselves.
President Trump slowly edged himself over into Roy Moore’s column in the race, pointing out that the Republican hopeful has denied the pedophilia accusations against him and noting it would be better to have a Republican in the Senate than the Democrat
Moore’s campaign has tried to stitch the political futures of Trump and Moore together more tightly, so the state who voted for the president by 28.3 points won’t give a Senate seat to a Democrat for the first time in 31 years.
‘So this is Donald Trump on trial in Alabama,’ said Moore’s chief political strategist Dean Young on Sunday. ‘If the people of Alabama vote for this liberal Democrat Doug Jones, then they’re voting against the president who they put in the office at the highest level.’
Trump also suggested his agenda was at stake as he slowly moved his support into Moore’s column.
The president had originally teamed up with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in support of Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP Alabama primary, as the state looked to permanently fill the seat once held by Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
But Moore destroyed Strange, the appointed seat-filler, in the late September primary, besting the incumbent by about 10 points.
The ex-judge had been aided by Bannon in the primary, whose presence relayed to voters – with a wink, wink, nudge, nudge – that Moore was the true Trump-ian pick.
When the sexual misconduct allegations came out, Bannon’s people forcefully pushed back on reports that suggested the Breitbart head’s support was wavering.
Now a new shock poll from Fox News shows Democrat Doug Jones 10 points ahead of Republican Roy Moore as voters head to the polls tomorrow in Alabama to select the state’s next U.S. senator.