WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has yet to make any major comments on Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore , nearly a week after multiple women accused the controversial judge of sexual misconduct when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.

Briefing reporters Thursday afternoon, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly said that the people of Alabama should make that decision whether to support Moore and would not say whether Trump believes the allegations.

The president has been clear that if any of these allegations are true, allegations that he takes very seriously, finds very troubling, if those do happen to be true, then he should do the right thing and step aside, she said.

After much back and forth, she insisted that she had nothing further to add on that front.

Trump, who returned to Washington late Tuesday from a 12-day trip to Asia, has largely ignored questions about Moore, even as the allegations continue to grow and many GOP lawmakers have called on Moore to withdraw from the race.

The president twice dodged questions from reporters this week: once on Tuesday night, when he returned to the White House, and again on Wednesday, after a previously unscheduled speech to summarize and boast about his travels.

On Thursday, when asked why Trump has been conspicuously silent about Moore, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said the president has been too busy to comment.

Well, the president made a statement when he was in Asia, and hes been very busy here working on explaining to the country exactly what happened in his Asia trip, she said on Fox News . This is an important topic, but in terms of this particular issue and this particular Senate race, I will not get ahead of the president and anything he wishes to add.

Trump has had a quiet schedule since returning from Asia, but on Thursday, he met with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill as they voted to pass their much-anticipated tax legislation and again he ignored questions on Moore. He had no other events scheduled that day.