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Roy Moore, who got tossed from the Alabama Supreme Court twice and then managed to lose a statewide election to a Democrat — an accomplishment that rates right between cold fusion and enjoying a transcontinental flight in coach — is running for Senate again because he terrifyingly believes Alabama might just give him another shot. Unfortunately for Moore, all those allegations that range from harassment to molestation of underaged girls are still out there even though he’s assured the public that he’s cleared it all up.
The crux of Moore’s claimed exoneration is a polygraph test that he passed when he was trying to prevent the state from certifying the election he had already lost to Doug Jones. He could have taken the test, you know, before he lost and maybe waved it around in an effort to get people to not abandon his candidacy like vegans from a pig roast, but no one’s accusing Roy of strategic brilliance.
But now that test is potentially coming back to haunt him because attorneys for Leigh Corfman, a woman who claims Moore molested her when she was 14 and he was 32, say they weren’t given the test results when they deposed Moore in a defamation suit Corfman brought against Moore… but now they have some serious questions to ask about it.
“To the extent that the results of the polygraph examination administered on him are reliable, Mr. Moore likely failed,” the motion filed Monday stated.
The motion further argues that the test itself was used as the basis for more defamatory claims against the woman.
For his part, Moore says he passed:
In an email statement Monday to AL.com, Moore said, “According to the deposition taken of my polygraph examiner, his findings that I was telling the truth about never knowing Ms. Corfman are backed up by two qualified examiners of this state. My examiner was the only examiner to administer the test. This is another way of delaying her testimony which they have avoided thus far. To our knowledge, Ms. Corfman has not taken a polygraph and has not submitted to testimony under oath before a court reporter. This comes about after my announcement to run for the US Senate after a year’s delay in court. Why doesn’t the press ask her if she has taken a polygraph and why she won’t testify?”
This is where we’re obligated to point out that polygraph tests are pretty much junk science. Yet the mystique remains and now we have Moore boasting his test results and challenging Corfman to take one, Corfman’s lawyers pointing out that Moore failed, yet not putting Corfman up for one, and the Alabama courts — correctly — not letting any of this trumped up Magic 8-Ball stuff get into court.
Amidst all this, Moore is still running for the GOP Senate nod against Tommy Tuberville. Oh my, he’s going to win, isn’t he?
Roy Moore ‘likely failed’ polygraph test, Corfman says [Al.com]
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