Exclusive: Roy Moore campaign distributes "primer" on how to discredit accusers, "fake news"
Source: Vox
Official talking points cite Breitbart, and Moore himself, as proof that sex abuse allegations are made up.
By Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Updated at Dec 11, 2017, 11:00am EST
A top Roy Moore campaign official is giving staff and volunteers talking points on how to fight back against reports that their candidate had inappropriate relationships and interactions with teenage girls when he was in thirties, according to a document the campaign provided to Vox.
Moore’s deputy campaign manager Hannah Ford sent an email to staff and volunteers urging them to repeat a theme: the liberal media is spreading fake news; the women are lying. (The document is posted in full below.)
“We have prepared a primer that lists the ‘fake news’ put out by four women followed by some of the evidence and responses that has been uncovered and that show the claims to be entirely false,” the document begins.
The evidence that the accusations are untrue chiefly rely Breitbart News, and, at times, the Moore campaign itself. Some of the efforts to discredit the claims attack the character of the accusers.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/8/16754470/roy-moore-campaign-talking-points-debunk-sexual-allegations
Full document @ link, above
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