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AP FACT CHECK: Man Dissed by
Trump Has Put Felons in Prison
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala.
— The Alabama Demo-
crat who was disparaged
by President Donald
Trump as “soft on crime”
is a former U.S. attorney
who prosecuted church
bombers and domestic
terrorist Eric Rudolph.
Trump on Tuesday
gave Republican Roy
Moore a near endorse-
ment in Alabama’s Sen-
ate race, saying Moore
“totally denies” allega-
tions of sexual miscon-
duct with teens. Trump
then called Democrat
Doug Jones soft on crime,
border security and the
military.
“We don’t need a liberal
person in there, a Demo-
crat, Jones. I’ve looked at
his record. It’s terrible
on crime. It’s terrible on
the borders. It’s terrible
on the military,” Trump
told reporters. Trump
did not elaborate on the
reasons behind his as-
sessment.
Here’s a brief look at
Jones’ record and views
on the subjects men-
tioned by Trump :
CAREER
Jones spent 12 years as
a prosecutor in the U.S.
Department of Justice,
serving as an assistant
U.S. attorney from 1980
to 1984 and as U.S. attor-
POOL VIA AP
Royals cont’d from pg 9
In this photo taken from video Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan
Markle talk about their engagement during an interview in London
Monday. It was announced Monday that Prince Harry, fi fth in line
for the British throne, will marry American actress Meghan Markle
in the spring, confi rming months of rumors.
civil ceremony in 2005
because both bride and
groom were divorced.
Newspapers
hailed
news of the engagement
as a breath of fresh air
and symbol of a modern-
izing monarchy.
The Daily Telegraph
said in an editorial: “A
divorced,
mixed-race
Hollywood actress who
attended a Roman Catho-
lic school is to marry the
son of the next king. Such
a sentence could simply
not have been written a
generation ago.”
The Daily Mail, which
devoted its fi rst 17 pages
to the engagement, said
the couple would give
the royal family “the in-
jection of vigor and exu-
berance it so desperately
needs.”
In the couple’s fi rst
joint interview Monday,
33-year-old Harry said
Markle immediately fi t-
ted in with his family.
He said when she visited
Buckingham Palace to
meet the queen, “the cor-
gis took to her straight
away.”
The ex-soldier prince
and the 36-year-old star
of TV show “Suits” re-
vealed that Harry pro-
posed over a roast chick-
en dinner at his London
home, aft er months in
which they tried to keep
their long-distance rela-
tionship out of the public
eye.
Clearly happy in each
other’s company, the
beaming couple recount-
ed how they met on a
blind date set up by a mu-
tual friend, and immedi-
ately clicked.
“The fact that I fell in
love with Meghan so
incredibly quickly was
sort of confi rmation to
me that everything, all
the stars were aligned,
everything was just per-
fect,” Harry said.
“It was this beautiful
woman just sort of liter-
ally tripped and fell into
my life. I fell into her
life.”
ney in Birmingham un-
der the Clinton adminis-
tration from 1997 to 2001.
He has been in private
practice since leaving the
Department of Justice,
and has worked as a de-
fense attorney for some
of the state’s well-con-
nected political fi gures
in white collar cases.
CHURCH BOMBING
PROSECUTION
Jones is best known for
leading the prosecution
of two Ku Klux Klansmen
who bombed Birming-
ham’s 16th Street Baptist
Church in Birmingham
in 1963. Thomas Edwin
Blanton Jr. was convict-
ed in 2001 and remains
in prison. Bobby Frank
Cherry was convicted in
2002 and died in prison
two years later.
ERIC RUDOLPH
INDICTMENT
Jones also helped co-
ordinate the task force
that led to the indictment
of domestic terrorist
Eric Rudolph. Rudolph
bombed a Birmingham
abortion clinic in 1998,
killing an off -duty police
offi cer. Rudolph pleaded
guilty to four terrorist
bombings in Birming-
ham and Atlanta includ-
ing the fatal 1996 Olym-
pic Park bombing.
ALY GRICE/TROY MESSENGER VIA AP, FILE
Doug Jones, described as ‘soft on crime’ Tuesday,
prosecuted church bombers and domestic terrorists
In this Nov. 17 fi le photo, Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones speaks during a campaign stop
in Troy, Ala. The words of prominent Republicans are being used against Alabama’s GOP Senate nominee
Roy Moore in a campaign ad. The ad by Jones features statements made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
Sen. Richard Shelby and Ivanka Trump responding to allegations of sexual misconduct against Moore.
paign website that he
disagrees with Attorney
General Jeff Sessions
“rolling back sentenc-
ing reform eff orts.”
Jones says prosecutors
and judges should be
given fl exibility in han-
dling cases. While on
the bench. Jones’ oppo-
nent Roy Moore, also
criticized
mandatory
minimum sentences for
people he said should be
considered non-violent
off enders.
BORDER WALL
It’s not clear what
Trump meant by his crit-
icism of Jones’ record on
borders. However, Jones
has said he does not sup-
port Trump’s proposal
for a border wall. He
called it too expensive
and said the money could
be put to better use.
SENTENCING
REFORM
Jones says on his cam-
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