Roy Moore has now filed a lawsuit against the women who accused him of sexual misconduct before last year’s special election to replace Jeff Sessions:
THE HILL – Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on Monday filed a lawsuit alleging that there was a political conspiracy against him in the 2017 special election.
The complaint was filed in Etowah County, Ala., against some of the women who accused Moore of sexual misconduct — including Debbie Wesson Gibson, Beverly Young Nelson, Leigh Corfman and Tina Johnson — ahead of the vote to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Richard Hagedorn, who said he knew Corfman and revealed he was aware of other alleged incidents involving Moore, was also named in the suit.
“Those accusations involved events that supposedly occurred from 26 to 40 years ago. Yet they all coincidentally surfaced for the first time within a seven-day period, a mere 32 days before the December 12 general election,” the complaint reads.
Moore, a former state Supreme Court chief justice who lost to now-Sen. Doug Jones (D), alleged that his accusers share “common ties” and that they planned to undermine his Senate campaign last year.
“What we’ve documented in this complaint will show the people of Alabama that these people knew what they were doing. They set it out. They described what they were going to do. They did it, and they bragged about doing it afterward,” Moore said at a news conference on Monday.
Here is Moore’s news conference where he announced the lawsuit and answered questions:
If he’s truly innocent and has the goods on these women, then I hope he takes them for all they are worth and exposes their treachery.