In a bizarre Wednesday press event, Roy Moore’s embattled campaign demanded the high school yearbook of the woman who has accused him of violently sexually assaulting her.
Moore campaign chairman Bill Armistead and attorney Phillip Jauregui accused Moore’s latest accuser of lying about his sexually assaulting her when she was 16 — and want to get their hands on the yearbook the woman showed at her press conference that included a flirty note allegedly written by Moore.
“We demand that you immediately release the yearbook to a neutral custodian… so that our expert can look at it,” Jauregui said.
But neither he or Armistead offered any proof that any of the five women accusing Moore of inappropriate sexual interactions when they were teenagers — including one who says she was 14 ears old when Moore undressed her — were lying.
Both refused to take questions from reporters, and neither offered a shred of evidence that either was lying.
The hastily arranged press event occurred just as the Alabama Republican Party steering committee was about to begin a meeting to determine whether it would pull Moore’s endorsement and disqualify his candidacy, back his campaign, or do nothing and let the situation play out. It was held outside state party headquarters, where the party was holding the meeting, though many members planned to call in.
He also claimed that Moore had been the judge who presided over the woman’s divorce in the late 1990s, a claim that he said contradicted her claim that she’d never seen him since he assaulted her. The lawyer didn’t offer any specific evidence that Moore and the accuser had contact during the divorce case, however.
“Judge Moore has been falsely accused of something he did not do 40 years ago,” Armistead said. “We cannot just stand by idly and let false charges go without some answering.”
It’s unclear what Moore’s campaign hoped to accomplish with the abbreviated press event — not a press conference, which involves questions and answers with the media.
