On Tuesday, President Donald Trump tiptoed up to the edge of (re)endorsing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has faced a barrage of credible allegations that he romantically pursued teenagers routinely in his hometown of Gadsden while he was in his 30s. "I can tell you one thing for sure: We don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat — Jones. It's terrible on crime. It's terrible on the military. I can tell you for a fact, we do not need somebody that's going to be bad on crime, bad on borders, bad with the military, bad for the Second Amendment," Trump said as he was leaving Washington, D.C. Tuesday for his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Roy Moore backers giving thanks for Donald Trump
applauds Trump, who on Tuesday discounted the sexual assault allegations against Moore and said voters must not support his "liberal" rival. Moore's campaign announced Wednesday that his communications director, John Rogers, had resigned. Trump didn't explicitly say he was endorsing Moore, but he insisted, "We don't need a liberal person in there. Trump backed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in a September Alabama Republican primary but moved quickly to embrace Moore after he won. The allegations against Moore come amid a national reckoning over misdeeds by powerful men in media, business and politics.
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