America’s extraordinary reckoning with sexual harassment, which has concluded the careers of dozens of high-profile men, is ricocheting back to the most powerful alleged predator of all: Donald Trump. During the presidential campaign, Trump was accused by at least 16 women of sexual misconduct, allegedly grabbing breasts, touching crotches, and forcing kisses—and won the election anyway. Now, after endorsing Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who is also accused of multiple counts of sexual assault and impropriety, the president is once again being pressed to account for behavior that would have forced most other politicians to resign. “In an objective setting, without question, a person with this record would have entered the graveyard of political aspirations, never to return,” Rachel Crooks, a former receptionist who accused Trump of forcibly kissing her outside an elevator in 2005, said Monday at an event with other victims. “Yet here we are with that man as president.”

For the past year, Trump has dodged many of the questions that almost derailed his campaign in October 2016, when a leaked tape saw him boasting that he did, indeed, grab women’s genitals without their consent. Asked to respond to the allegations, the White House has repeatedly insisted that all of Trump’s accusers are lying. Among their ranks are his ex-wife Ivana, who once described her husband raping her in Trump Tower in a fit of rage after a botched scalp surgery. She later shifted her claim, saying she didn’t mean that her husband raped her in a “literal or criminal” sense. Monday, after three of Trump’s accusers were interviewed by Megyn Kelly, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that the Trump administration would be putting out “multiple reports” of eyewitness accounts refuting the allegations, echoing an official statement sent to NBC News earlier in the day, which deemed the allegations “false.”

The numerous eyewitness reports have yet to materialize. On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted that he didn’t know or had never met any of his accusers, in apparent contradiction of the White House line that witnesses to the interactions would exonerate him.

It is almost impossible to extricate Trump’s past behavior from his current support of Moore. Politico reports that, in private, the president has complained that the wave of women speaking out has become a problem, and has questioned the veracity of the claims against Moore, who denies all criminal wrongdoing. (One woman has accused him of attempted rape.) According to the Associated Press, Trump has explicitly linked the two, telling associates that charges against both are false.

It is an alliance that could prove disastrous for the president. Within the Republican establishment, there is an overwhelming feeling that the party’s association with Moore is toxic. On Monday, former secretary of state and Alabama native Condoleezza Rice issued a statement calling on Alabamians to “reject bigotry, sexism, and intolerance” and “insist that our representatives are dignified, decent, and respectful of the values we hold dear.” Richard Shelby, Alabama’s senior Republican senator, told CNN that he didn’t vote for Moore, doesn’t want him to win, and that if he does, the Senate should launch an investigation that could result in his expulsion. “There’s a tipping point,” he told Jake Tapper. “When it got to the 14-year-old’s story, that was enough for me.”

More dangerous is the heat that Moore’s scandals have brought back to Trump. “Women who accuse anyone should be heard,” Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said Sunday in an extraordinary rebuke to the president. “I know that he was elected, but women should always feel comfortable coming forward. And we should all be willing to listen to them.” Trump was reportedly infuriated and White House advisers “stunned” by the statement.