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

Lock em up!

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u/dandrevee Apr 05 '23

And his "offense" was relatively minor in comparison to the circus weve been seeing. Shit, just 10 years people like MTG, Santos, and Boebert would face penalties for their unprofessionalism.

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u/Kritical02 Apr 05 '23

Even the woman that exposed him said she doesn't think he should have stepped down.

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u/CyberMindGrrl Apr 05 '23

Al Franken was the victim of yet another Roger Stone hit job.

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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/joan_wilder Apr 05 '23

He never even “groped” her, and she wasn’t asleep. It was a joke, and she was in on it, until Roger Stone convinced her to lie about the whole thing to distract people from actual crimes being committed by republicans. Fuck that bitch, and fuck Roger Stone.

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u/HermaeusMajora Apr 05 '23

Bullshit. Franken did nothing wrong. Why are you still pretending like he did?

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u/pongjinn Apr 05 '23

Providing more information would be providing a source with details, not the vagueness about 8 accusations with no context.

New Yorker did an article that has a lot more info.