Doug Jones Calls Investigating Trump for Sexual Abuse a Distraction

Newly elected Democratic Senator from Alabama, Doug Jones, who defeated accused child sexual predator Roy Moore with the help of black voters, especially black women, said that the Senate should back away from a push to investigate sexual harassment charges against Donald Trump, according to HuffPost.

''People had an opportunity to judge before that election," Jones said. "I think we need to move on and not get distracted by those issues," Jones said on CNN's State of the Union. "I don't think the president ought to resign at this point. We'll see how things go."

Jones, who called for Dem. Sen. Al Franken to resign over sexual harassment allegations and who has primarily women to thank for his being elected, is willing to dismiss the allegations more than 20 women have made against Trump that include everything from harassment to sexual assault.

The move to investigate Trump over sexual harassment charges ramped up this week after Franken's resignation when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon called for Trump to resign.

"These allegations are credible; they are numerous," Gillibrand said last week. "I've heard these women's testimony, and many of them are heartbreaking."

But Jones, speaking with Tapper suggested that the allegations against Trump were a distraction from other more important issues, even though it was sexual assault allegations against Moore that voters proved they would not tolerate and that helped put Jones in office.

"Well, again, I go back to the fact that those allegations were made and he was elected president of the United States," Jones said. "At this point, we need to move on and try to work with some real issues that are facing the country and not worry about getting at odds with the president any more than we have to."