What Al Franken Should Say
"I'll Resign The Day Donald Trump Does"
12 women accused Trump of sexual misconduct. He hasn't disproved a single one of the accusations. Since he is on tape bragging about groping women, the nation should take him at his word and demand that Franken and he can resign in a joint ceremony.
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‘People in Glass White Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones’
Tapper Rips Trump Tweeting About Franken: ‘People in Glass White Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones’
Posted:Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:11:55 +0000
Last night, President Donald Trump opened himself up to widespread criticism when he decided to tweet about the bombshell allegations against Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) that he forcibly kissed and groped Leeann Tweeden back in 2006. Following his tweets, Trump faced immediate backlash as he was accused of hypocrisy due to his own past history of sexual assault allegations as well as his relative silence on the Roy Moore scandal.
With a number of news personalities having already devoted segments to bringing up Trump’s past accusations, CNN’s Jake Tapper joined their ranks this afternoon. Noting that the White House had previously kept Trump from specifically saying whether he believed Moore’s accusers because of the president’s “own obvious vulnerability,” Tapper stated it was “an attempt to avoid this very segment that I’m doing right now.”
Highlighting Trump’s Franken tweets, the CNN anchor pointed out that according to Trump, “we’re supposed to believe the very compelling claims of Leeann Tweeden” but not the multiple women who came forward with serious allegations against Trump. Tapper then went on to spotlight the accusations made against Trump by various women during last year’s campaign.
The host explained that while Trump said at that time that all of those women were lying and he was going to file suit against them, he never followed through with that threat. And, in fact, he has actually had a suit filed against him by one of his accusers for defamation of character.
After noting that the official White House position now is that all of the women who have accused Trump of sexual wrongdoing are liars, and wondering aloud if notable Republicans who say they “believe the women” regarding Moore also believe those accusing Trump, Tapper ended the segment by referencing the infamous Access Hollywood tape.
“You can do anything,” he said. “You can do anything except criticize other alleged offenders without folks like us pointing out the rank hypocrisy of it. Just a little note, people in glass White Houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
Watch the clip above, via CNN.
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I hope Trump keeps up with his tweets about Franken. His hypocrisy will drive his approval even lower , and drive him out of office the next election or sooner.
The burden of proof is on the Trump accusers and they have nothing. The voters in all fifty states didn't care about this a year ago and still don't.
Franken can resign when Trump resigns. Trump is guilty as shit. He just has no problems lying about it.
Accusations are NOT proof, by the way.
Then apparently your whole case rests on a picture that a comedian had someone take of him doing something that any other comedian would have laughed about at that time. It certainly doesn’t meet the logical definition of assault. The “victim” probably laughed when she saw it. Then she went on to pose for Playboy pictures that men use to milk the lizard. This is a laughably weak attempt at tit for tat, and the President* is paralyzed from commenting about it due to his own indiscretions and abysmal approval ratings.
over half may have.
time will tell which was which.
I say the following as someone who agrees with Al Franken on . . . well, pretty much nothing. I also think it was pretty despicable the way he asked Jeff Sessions a narrowly framed question and then portrayed him as a liar because he didn't give a broad, sweeping, generalist answer. In short, I don't think much of the man.
Anyway . . .
I have a hard time caring about Al Franken's frat boy behavior from over a decade ago. It just seems like there about a million more important things to worry about. Taxes. Healthcare. Jobs. Even the Russia stuff is wayyyy more important than this.
Now, if he pulls something like that now that he's a senator, then fine. Have an investigation. Kick him out. Whatever. But right now it's nauseating watching America pat itself on the back for being outraged because he was hot for some adult woman 11 years ago and expressed it inappropriately.
Be honest. None of you actually care. This is all about either 1) politics, or 2) virtue signaling.