A TV host and sports broadcaster has accused Senator Al Franken, leading Democrat and thorn in President Trump’s site, of kissing and groping her without consent in 2006.
Leeann Tweeden told reporters that Franken groped her while she slept during a comedy tour, and provided a photo as evidence (see on scroll).
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The rest of the seedy story involves Franken harassing Tweeden, following her around on set trying to use his influence as an actor and politician to elicit smooches and flirting.
Tweeden reportedly shoved Franken after he attempted to violently kiss her, saying, “I told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time.”
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Tweeden wrote that Franken, who was the headliner on the tour, had written some skits and told her he had a part for her, adding that she “agreed to play along.”
“When I saw the script, Franken had written a moment when his character comes at me for a ‘kiss’. I suspected what he was after, but I figured I could turn my head at the last minute, or put my hand over his mouth, to get more laughs from the crowd,” she wrote.
“On the day of the show Franken and I were alone backstage going over our lines one last time. He said to me, ‘We need to rehearse the kiss.’ I laughed and ignored him. Then he said it again. I said something like, ‘Relax Al, this isn’t SNL…we don’t need to rehearse the kiss.’”
She wrote Franken continued to insist and she got “uncomfortable.”
“He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth,” she wrote.
“I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time.”
She said she felt disgusted and violated. She added that she didn’t tell anyone what happened at the time, but she was “angry.”
Tweeden also said she fell asleep while on the plane back to the U.S. She said is wasn’t until she saw the photo of Franken groping her that she told her husband what had happened and showed him the photo.
“I wanted to shout my story to the world with a megaphone to anyone who would listen, but even as angry as I was, I was worried about the potential backlash and damage going public might have on my career as a broadcaster,” she wrote.
A growing bi-partisan push is underway for Franken to be brought to terms with his hypocrisy and abuse. Even some Democrats have called for Al to resign from the Senate!
But as we all know, there is tremendous arrow-taking involved in exposing any Democrat as a dirtbag, especially one like Franken. Let’s keep Ms. Tweeden in our thoughts and prayers!
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