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Friday, November 17, 2017
Donald Trump and Al Franken
Donald Trump tweets about Al Franken sexual harassment: 'Where do his hands go?'
President criticises Democratic senator’s actions but remains silent
on Roy Moore, prompting fresh scrutiny of his own behaviour towards
women
Donald Trump
attacked Al Franken for sexual misconduct on Thursday night on Twitter,
reigniting the controversy around allegations made against the
president himself by numerous women.
Franken, a two-term Democratic senator, has apologized to Leeann Tweeden for behaving in an inappropriate manner during a tour of the Middle East to entertain US troops in 2006. The statements mark Trump’s first significant foray into allegations
of sexual misconduct arising in US politics in recent weeks in the
aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by 16 different women, said on Twitter of a picture
of Franken appearing to grope a sleeping Tweeden: “The Al Frankenstien
[sic] picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands
go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps?”
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
The Al Frankenstien picture is
really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures
2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps? .....
The president then followed up by referencing a joke about rape by
Franken when he was writing for Saturday Night Live in 1995. Franken suggested a skit in which he would give the CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl pills, and “take her to the closet and rape her”. Trump tweeted:
“And to think that just last week he was lecturing anyone who would
listen about sexual harassment and respect for women. Lesley Stahl
tape?” The president was himself captured on tape in 2005
in a conversation with the Access Hollywood host Billy Bush boasting
about sexual assault, saying he would see women and “grab them by the
pussy”. Trump also said: “When you’re a star they let you do it. You can
do anything.” Franken has asked to be investigated by the Senate ethics committee
and said in a statement: “There’s more I want to say, but the first and
most important thing– and if it’s the only thing you care to hear,
that’s fine – is: I’m sorry. “I respect women. I don’t respect men who don’t. And the fact that my
own actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel
ashamed.”
Trump has long threatened to sue the women who have accused him of
sexual misconduct, although he has yet to actually do so. The White
House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, has said the White House’s official position is that all of the women who came forward to allege inappropriate behaviour were lying. The comments about Franken come a week after Roy Moore, the Republican Senate nominee in Alabama, was first accused of sexual assault
against a teenage girl. Although more women have come forward to accuse
Moore of sexual misconduct, Trump has yet to comment publicly on the
allegations. He did tweet about Moore
in September, saying: “Spoke to Roy Moore of Alabama last night for the
first time. Sounds like a really great guy who ran a fantastic race. He
will help to #MAGA!” Sanders said on Thursday: “The president believes that these
allegations are very troubling and should be taken seriously and that
people of Alabama should decide who their next senator should be.”
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