Anti-moore billboard quotes Ivanka Trump
A digital billboard was roaming around Pensacola, Fla., as President Donald Trump held a rally there to urge residents in nearby Alabama to vote embattled Republican candidate Roy Moore to the Senate.
The billboard, displayed on the side of a moving truck Friday, reminded Florida residents of what Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a White House adviser, had previously said about Moore amid accusations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls.
“There’s a special place in hell for people who prey on children. I’ve yet to see a valid explanation and I have no reason to doubt the victims’ accounts,” Ivanka Trump told the Associated Press last month.
The billboard appears to be the work of the liberal group American Bridge, which featured the comments on the moving billboard in big, bold letters next to Ivanka Trump’s image.
Ivanka Trump’s words contradicted her father’s unwavering support of Moore. The president defended Moore last month, saying the former Alabama chief justice “totally denies” the allegations against him and telling reporters at the White House that “you have to listen to him, also.”
At his rally Friday, just four days before the Alabama special election, Trump’s endorsement of Moore was even more unequivocal.
Trump also singled out one of Moore’s accusers, Beverly Young Nelson, who had admitted earlier Friday that she added notes — a location, a date and the initials “D.A.” — to what she said was Moore’s inscription to her in her yearbook. Nelson stands by her claim Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16.