“This is not something he’s struggling with,” one senior White House official told The Daily Beast of Trump.
The president has even begun adopting some of Moore’s more outlandish lines of defense to push back against accusations that the candidate’s guilt is beyond question…
Advertisement
Trump began expressing doubts privately about the Moore accusations last month, Politico reported. And as The Daily Beast previously reported, some of Trump’s closest advisers, in and outside of the White House, recommended that he not criticize Moore publicly prior to the election in Alabama. Instead, they adopted the strategy of bashing Jones without mentioning Moore’s name—reinforcing Trump’s preference at the time.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member