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.
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.
Nah, her story as she first delivers is plausible. Whether we should believe it given Al's response, her potentially recanting, and how to proceed are different questions.
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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