Alabama rep: Roy Moore accuser ‘is clearly a liar’

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said Tuesday that a woman who accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager is “clearly a liar,” suggesting she forged Moore’s inscription in her high school yearbook. 

“What you have is the mainstream, left-wing, socialist, Democrat news media trying to distort the evidence to cause people to reach the conclusion that Roy Moore engaged in unlawful conduct with a minor,” Brooks said on “The Dale Jackson Show” on Alabama radio.

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Several women have accused Moore of sexual misconduct, saying he made advances to them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.

Leigh Corfman told The Washington Post that Moore initiated a sexual encounter with her in 1979, when she was 14 and he was 32.

Beverly Young Nelson then came forward and said Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16 and he was 30. She also provided a copy of a high school yearbook bearing a message from Moore.

Moore has denied all the allegations, and his representatives called on attorney Gloria Allred to have a handwriting expert examine the yearbook signature.

Brooks, on Tuesday, said Nelson forged Moore’s signature.

“There are only two that have asserted that Roy Moore engaged in unlawful conduct,” he said. “One of those is clearly a liar, because that one forged the ‘love, Roy Moore’ part of a yearbook in order to try to, for whatever reason, get at Roy Moore and win this seat for the Democrat.”

Earlier this month, Brooks said he still plans to vote for Moore because he will “vote right” on issues involving national security, abortion and the Supreme Court.

“You look at preponderance of the evidence, and you add Roy Moore’s denial in it, you add his long, deeply held Christian beliefs, and I just don’t think there’s any way in the world that a jury would agree with the assertions of The Washington Post and others that are trying to make us believe in the state of Alabama that we would be electing a pedophile,” Brooks said Tuesday.