Trump deflects on whether Moore should quit Senate race
HANOI, Vietnam — President Donald Trump on Saturday deflected questions about whether Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore should drop out of the race due to sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Trump, who has been travelling in Asia, said he’s been too busy reading documents and hasn’t had time to catch up on television news coverage about Moore. “So I have not seen very much about him, about it,” Trump reporters travelling with him as Air Force One flew from Danang to Hanoi, in Vietnam.
Trump referred back to a written statement that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read to reporters after The Washington Post report that an Alabama woman said Moore had sexual contact with her when she was 14 and he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney.
The White House statement said Trump believes Moore will “do the right thing and step aside” if the decades-old allegations are true.