here is a special place in hell for those who prey on children. I have no reason to doubt these young women." -- Ivanka Trump on GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore
"Roy Moore denies it. And by the way he totally denies it. I can tell you one thing, we don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat. I've looked at Doug Jones' record--it's terrible. Women are very special. I think it is a very special time, people are coming out and I think that's good for our society and I think it's very good for women and I'm very happy." -- Donald Trump today
After twelve full days of cowardly silence--during which Roy Moore was denounced as a child molester by the three largest newspapers in Alabama, GOP Congressional leaders Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, the Republican National Committee, the National Senatorial Republican Committee, the Alabama Young Republicans, Attorney General and former GOP Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, Alabama GOP Senator Richard Shelby, and GOP Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Jeff Flake, John Cornyn, Cory Gardner, Orrin Hatch, Todd Young, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, John McCain, and Steve Daines--Donald Trump (who himself stands accused by 16 women of sexual harrassment and who bragged about committing multiple sexual assaults on tape) has finally put the Republican Party on record as an amoral tribe that puts partisanship above the safety of children. The leading Republican, who ran last year as the first openly racist candidate for President in modern times, has finally made it clear that the GOP prefers a sexual predator and a liar to any Democrat. A known predator who was banned from his local shopping mall and YMCA for harrassing young girls is more deserving of a Senate seat than a former prosecutor with a spotless record. And that's because the Democrat (who made his reputation putting Ku Klux Klansmen in prison for life for the murders of four young African American girls) is, according to Trump, "soft on crime."
Murdering children and sexually assaulting 14-year-old girls are not crimes in the mind if the President if the United States--get your head around THAT new reality, if you can.
This is the Republican Party today: the supporters of partisanship over human decency, the proud proponents of racist policies, the hit men for the rich and powerful, the traitors who welcome foreign interference in our elections, and the enemies of a free press and the rule of law.
