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In the final weeks of the U.S. Senate race in Alabama, Breitbart News strained to discredit Leigh Corfman, who accused Republican Roy Moore of sexually touching her when she was 14 and he was 32. The far-right website published non-scoops — Corfman didn't have a phone in her bedroom! Corfman moved in with her father 12 days after meeting Moore! — as if they somehow made her account less believable.Now, Breitbart editor in chief Alex Marlow tells CNN that he actually did believe Corfman. Here's an excerpt from Oliver Darcy's report:Marlow also stressed that he was personally uncomfortable with the behavior attributed by The Post to Moore, and noted that he did believe the accusations from Leigh Corfman, who said Moore assaulted her while she was 14 — they were “not perfect,” he said, but had “a lot of credibility.”Marlow described Moore, whom Breitbart defended relentlessly, as a “weak candidate” and a “uniquely terrible candidate.”Marlow's sudden candor suggests that Breitbart's coverage of Moore after the accusations was a grand performance. The site's top editor thought that Moore had indeed preyed on a teenage girl and considered the former Alabama chief justice a lousy politician, yet Breitbart sent the opposite message to its audience.
Staff of The Washington PostFor purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the course of a Senate race in Alabama by revealing a candidate’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the journalism that exposed it.
The attorney for former Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) was reportedly arrested Wednesday on charges of driving under the influence and drug possession.Trenton Garmon, who worked for Moore in his unsuccessful 2017 campaign for the Alabama Senate seat, was arrested by police in Gadsden, Ala., and charged with driving under the influence of controlled substances, second-degree possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to AL.com.Moore is considering another U.S. Senate challenge to incumbent Sen. Doug Jones (D) in 2020, though President Trump has said he shouldn’t run after throwing his support behind Moore in 2017.Garmon, who was arrested about 8 p.m. Wednesday night and taken to the Etowah County Jail, was being held on a $3,000 bond as of Thursday afternoon.The news outlet noted that Garmon previously sued the Alabama Department of Public Safety after they suspended his driver’s license, according to a lawsuit filed in January.Garmon was the primary lawyer Moore used to send cease-and-desist letters to media outlets, including AL.com and The Washington Post, for coverage detailing allegations that Moore had sexual contact with underage girls when he was in his 30s.