Moore Accuser Says She Wrote Part of Yearbook Inscription
Mr. Moore has said that he did not know his accusers,
but in light of the handwriting analysis, Ms. Allred said, “that statement does not appear to be true.”
Ms. Nelson said on Nov. 13 that four decades ago, when she was 16
and he was a 30-year-old assistant district attorney, Mr. Moore assaulted her in his car, putting his hands on her breasts and trying to force her head into his crotch, squeezing her neck so hard she was bruised.
On Friday, she said that Ms. Nelson added the printed parts “to remind herself who Roy Moore was, and where and when Mr. Moore signed her yearbook.”
“She never said that he wrote that,” Ms. Allred added.
“The tide has turned in his favor in the last week and a half or so,” Ms. BeShears said, “and I think this really will probably help him.”
As Mr. Moore struggled to discredit the allegations — which initially repulsed some voters
and prompted Republicans in Washington, including Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, to call for Mr. Moore to drop out of the race — his allies focused on Ms. Nelson’s yearbook.
Mr. Jauregui has demanded that she turn it over to an independent forensic analyst who
can, he said on Friday, determine, “is the ink is a month old or is it 40 years old?”
The news came at the end of a week in which Mr. Moore enjoyed a new infusion of support from the Republican Party, including an endorsement by President Trump
and resumption of funding from the Republican National Committee, which had severed ties with his campaign last month