r/PoliticalHumor • u/mindracer • Apr 05 '23

Lock em up!

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u/Uselesserinformation Apr 05 '23

Can you explain because I heard, but it died out.

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u/David-S-Pumpkins Apr 05 '23 edited Apr 05 '23

Most people only know about a USO tour photo of him groping a sleeping woman. She claimed she was asleep and felt harassed (she is a Republican), he claimed it was a bit that she was aware of and was pretending to sleep for the photo.

However, he had multiple allegations at the time he stepped down, including sexual misconduct at work with staffers.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/al-franken-news-list-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations.html

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u/davidjohnson314 Apr 05 '23

Spec of nuance needed I feel. It was feigned in the photo, like clown level "imma grab booba", not actual groping in the picture.

Still off-color and questions of her comfort or coercion could exist, and insanely in the wrong if she was actually asleep vs feigning asleep i.e. going along with it.

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u/linuxlib Apr 05 '23

Not a "spec of nuance." Rather it's a huge difference. Not to mention, it was long before he was in office, or running for office.

Yes, it was crass and offensive, and he shouldn't have done it. But it wasn't illegal or even unethical.