President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to CNN as “fake news,” and he may of just been proven right.
An Alabama woman used a signature in her high school yearbook as proof that GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16.
CNN tweeted images of the yearbook, but they may have doctored the images, according to the Conservative Tribune.
The alleged signature reads, “To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say, ‘Merry Christmas.’ Love, Roy Moore DA, 12-22-77, Olde Hickory House.”
CNN posted an image of the accuser, Beverley Young Nelson, to Twitter Monday, and critics immediately begin pointing out that it appears to be in two separate shades of ink.
Beverly Young Nelson said Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore wrote a message in her yearbook in December 1977 that said, "To a sweeter more beautiful girl, I could not say, 'Merry Christmas.'"
She said he signed it, "Roy Moore, D.A." https://t.co/aluJzQsv15 pic.twitter.com/esjGd1ssd9
— CNN (@CNN) November 13, 2017
After multiple accusations that the signature is a fake, CNN tweeted another image of the yearbook on Wednesday. In this image, it all appears to be the same shade of black.
Roy Moore's lawyer denies one woman's sexual assault allegation and demands that a handwriting expert examine a note she says the Alabama Senate candidate wrote https://t.co/AkVt9K4iBU pic.twitter.com/UTa7SejwsZ
— CNN (@CNN) November 16, 2017
Assuming the image didn’t magically change on it’s own, the question was raised if CNN could be responsible for altering the image in order to make it appear more authentic.
And this image holds a lot of weight. According to a recent Fox News poll, Moore is now loosing by a whopping 8 points in the Alabama Senate race.
And the ink coloring isn’t the only speculation raised that the image is a fake.
In a letter to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Moore drew attention to other discrepancies.
He claimed he wouldn’t of signed the image as DA, standing for District Attorney, in 1970. At that time, he was Assistant District Attorney.
He also acknowledged the fact that the handwriting seems to change, saying:
“Those initials as well as the date under the signature block and the printed name of the restaurant are written in a style inconsistent with the rest of the yearbook inscription. The ‘7’s’ in ‘Christmas 1977’ are in a noticeably different script than the ‘7’s’ in the date ’12-22-77.’ I believe tampering has occurred.”
Nelson’s lawyer Gloria Allred released a statement Wednesday saying they agreed to have the yearbook examined by an independent expert after the Senate committee agrees to investigate the accusations.
-The Horn editorial team