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3 verified reports published on November 19, 2017.
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November 19 was not the day Trumpworld solved anything. It was the day the White House showed, again, that when faced with a moral crisis and a political inconvenience, its instinct was to stall, squint, and hope the calendar would bail it out.
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The White House’s handling of Roy Moore on November 19 made the underlying message unmistakable: the scandal was being measured against tax votes and Senate arithmetic. That cynicism drew more attention to the administration’s priorities and kept the backlash alive among Republicans who wanted the campaign out of the gutter.
Senior White House aides spent Sunday trying to explain why the president would not clearly break with Roy Moore, even as the Alabama nominee faced accusations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls. The result was a clumsy mix of moral hedging and raw political math that made the administration look more interested in keeping Senate votes than in drawing a line against abuse.
A presidential proclamation set November 19 through November 25 as National Family Week, a wholesome official note that collided spectacularly with the administration’s wobble over the Roy Moore allegations. The contrast was almost too on-the-nose: public virtue on paper, political evasiveness in practice.