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CBS News reports: Several women who have publicly accused President Trump of sexual misconduct are speaking out together at a joint news conference on Monday in New York City. According to a press release, the women will be speaking together for the first time about their experiences with Mr. Trump on Monday which is being held by the organization Brave …

After weeks of hiding from every mainstream outlet in the country, Roy Moore has granted an interview to the conservative Alabama Political Reporter. CNN reports: Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore denied that he has ever molested anyone and repeated that he has never met the women who have accused of him sexual assault in an interview with “The Voice of …

Time Magazine reports: Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said on Sunday that he could not bring himself to vote for Republican candidate Roy Moore in Alabama’s upcoming Senate election. Shelby, a Republican, said he did not vote for the Democratic candidate Doug Jones, but had written in a “distinguished Republican candidate” who he did not name. “I’d rather see a Republican …

The Hill reports: Embattled Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is now leading his Democratic rival, Doug Jones, by 4 points, according to a new survey. A Gravis Marketing poll finds Moore has 49 percent support in the Alabama Senate race, while 45 percent support back Jones. Another 6 percent of respondents in the poll are undecided. Of those who …

The Hill reports: A liberal group targeted President Trump’s campaign rally supporting Alabama’s GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore on Friday night in Florida with a mobile billboard featuring his daughter’s sharp criticism of Moore. American Bridge posted on Twitter a picture of a mobile billboard truck emblazoned with the younger Trump’s face and the quote, “There’s a special place in …

The Washington Post reports: Stand Up Republic, a 501(c)4 group co-founded by former independent anti-Trump presidential candidate Evan McMullin, is spending $500,000 on digital and TV ads that ask Alabama conservatives to reject Republican nominee Roy Moore’s Senate bid. In two 30-second spots, the group presents Moore as an unacceptable choice for conservatives — but does not suggest a particular …

The Hill reports: President Trump tweeted his strongest endorsement yet for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) on Friday, claiming Democratic candidate Doug Jones would be “a puppet” for Democratic leaders. Trump first threw his support behind Moore in a tweet Monday, saying that the Senate needed Moore’s vote. Moore is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including that he …

ABC News reports: One of the women accusing Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct, Beverly Young Nelson, told ABC News it “sickens” her to think what might happen if Moore is elected to the U.S. Senate. Nelson has said Moore groped her four decades ago when she was a 16-year-old waitress and he was in his 30s. “It …

Media Matters reports: The National Rifle Association has discreetly spent almost $55,000 against Democratic candidate Doug Jones in the Alabama Senate special election, effectively supporting reported child molester and Republican candidate Roy Moore. Public Integrity’s Ashley Balcerzak reported that the NRA spent a total of $54,772.03 in December 2017 on postcards opposing Jones, according to Federal Election Commission filings. But …

Yesterday Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway appeared at Politico‘s Women Rule event where a woman in the audience demanded to know why she continues to defend Trump against the sexual assault allegations made by multiple women. Conway’s response to the woman was characteristically ugly. Shareblue has the transcript of the exchange: HECKLER: Kellyanne, your boss grabs women — PALMER: Excuse me, …

The Hill reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s endorsement of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on Wednesday, citing his high moral standards. “The president has tremendous moral standards. He has said, the White House has said, the allegations are troubling,” Conway told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day,” after Cuomo said, “the president seems to have no …

The Birmingham News reports: Silent, heads bowed and dressed in scarlet robes, a group of women stood Tuesday as a symbolic protest to Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. The protestors were costumed as the handmaids characters inspired by the 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was made into a TV series on Hulu this year. The women stood along …

The Today Show reports: TIME has named The Silence Breakers, the individuals who set off a national reckoning over the prevalence of sexual harassment, as its 2017 Person of the Year. The magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal revealed the selection Wednesday on TODAY along with the cover, a composite group photo that includes actress Ashley Judd, singer Taylor Swift and former …

The Associated Press reports: Lawyers for President Donald Trump argued on Tuesday that a defamation lawsuit filed by a former contestant on his reality TV show “The Apprentice” who accused him of unwanted sexual contact should at least be blocked while he’s in office because he’s too busy and important. Summer Zervos was a contestant on the show in 2006 …

CNN reports: The Republican National Committee will transfer funds to the Alabama Republican Party following President Donald Trump’s endorsement Monday of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in that state’s special election next week, according to a senior RNC official. The official added, “The RNC is the political arm of the president and we support the President.” Breitbart News first reported …

The Washington Post reports: Debbie Wesson Gibson was in her attic hauling out boxes of Christmas decorations last week when she noticed a storage bin she said she had forgotten about. Inside was a scrapbook from her senior year of high school, and taped to a page titled “Those Who Inspire” was a graduation card. “Happy graduation Debbie,” it read …

“The media and the Democrats are piling on with allegations about Roy Moore wanting to date teenagers—it’s not illegal and at the time it wasn’t even a violation of social norms because unless you’re an urban elite provincial who doesn’t understand that there are different societies within America, 40 years ago it was not unheard of for a 30-year-old man …

The New York Post reports: President Trump on Monday personally called Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore to offer his full support to the accused molester, Moore’s wife crowed on Facebook. “Judge Moore just got off the phone with President Trump — we have his full support! Thank you Mr. President! Let’s MAGA!” Kayla Moore posted. Kayla Moore’s FB friends …

Roy Moore has refused to debate his opponent and has rejected interview requests from all mainstream media outlets, but he’ll still talk to the far-right sites: Embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) said in an interview released Monday that he’s learned while running for Senate that “immorality has sunken to a new low,” citing political advertisements run by his …

Billy Bush writes for the New York Times: He said it. “Grab ’em by the pussy.” Of course he said it. And we laughed along, without a single doubt that this was hypothetical hot air from America’s highest-rated bloviator. Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single …