After another woman came forward Monday with sexual misconduct allegations against Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, Moore reportedly threw together a quick press conference for Alamaba news outlets only. During a brief statement, Moore called the allegations “ugly” and denied them outright.
Heads up: Roy Moore is about to hold a press conference here in Birmingham to address the latest allegations.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
Roy Moore's giving a press conference at 530 EST, apparently. He would have done it later, but it's a school night.
— Customary Popehat Behavior (@Popehat) November 13, 2017
I can't wait for Roy Moore to burst out into a rendition of "And I am telling you I'm not going."
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) November 13, 2017
Moore’s wife appeared with him as a character witness.
Roy Moore just appeared with his wife at a press conference in Alabama and doubled down. Denied latest allegations.
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) November 13, 2017
Moore on Beverly Young Nelson's story: This is absolutely false. I never did what she said I did…. #alsen pic.twitter.com/azpsnLP4jp
— Lauren Walsh (@LaurenWalshTV) November 13, 2017
Roy Moore's press conference just now, he said of Beverly Young Nelson claims-
"This is absolutely false. I never did what she said I did. I don’t even know the woman. I don’t know anything about her. I don’t even know where the restaurant is or was." He did not take questions.— Jack Royer (@JackRoyer) November 13, 2017
In Roy Moore's press statement just now, he said of Beverly Young Nelson:
"This is absolutely false. I never did what she said I did. I don’t even know the woman. I don’t know anything about her. I don’t even know where the restaurant is or was."— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 13, 2017
Moore: This is absolutely false…I don’t even know the woman. I don’t know anything about her.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
Moore: This has nothing to do with reality.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
Moore’s wife speaks. Says, “He has never one time lifted a finger to me…he’s godly, he’s loving, and everyone in this community knows it.”
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
Roy Moore's wife Kayla: "He's godly, he's loving to everyone in this community."
— Jonathan Hardison (@FOX6Hardison) November 13, 2017
Moore’s wife: “It’s ugly. It’s politics. It’s the ugliest politics I’ve ever been in in my life.”
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
Which makes it, well, not a press conference. It was open to Alabama outlets only. I’m truly unclear on what the purpose of this was.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
And my apologies for not naming Moore’s wife — her name is Kayla Moore. I couldn’t remember it in haste to type out her statements.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
To be clear: Moore says he has never met a woman whose yearbook appears to have a message from him with his signature.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
“I don’t even know the woman,” he said, despite the inscription in her yearbook pic.twitter.com/8J99aN1Ciw
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 13, 2017
I asked Moore if he's prepared to testify under oath, as Beverly Young Nelson is prepared to do. He walked away & didn't answer my question.
— Lauren Walsh (@LaurenWalshTV) November 13, 2017
A nothingburger?
I feel bad for these TV reporters who undoubtedly had to break into the weather or something more revelatory to cover this.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 13, 2017
