Leann tweeten5/8/2023 She also riffs on the negative repercussions she fears she might encounter in her career, if she brought her allegations to the USO or the trip's sponsor.Ĭategories Politics Tags al franken, democrat, leeann tweeden, minnesota, resigned Leave a comment Not only the way she describes the allegations but also the way she talks about small ways that Franken demeaned her throughout the trip. Tweeden's multiple interviews on the subject are compelling and credible. Franken's Response:įranken made a public statement, and also wrote Tweeden a letter (which she read on the air of The View), saying that while he apologizes for the fact that his actions left her feeling violated, he "remembers that rehearsal differently." Tweeden's Interviews “Maybe I have a platform to speak out, because if he did this to somebody else or if anybody else has stayed silent or anybody else has been the victim of any kind of abuse, maybe they can speak out and feel like they can come forward in real time and not wait a decade or longer,” Tweeden said in an interview with Good Morning America. She decided that now was her time to finally tell her story. The incident sounded to Tweeden like exactly what Franken had done to her. In that interview, Speier told her story of having been sexually assaulted by a Congressman when she was a young aide. She also wrote, in her original allegation, that she had been inspired by the interview she conducted with Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Ca) a few weeks earlier. But now a decade later, she says she feels on much more solid footing, professionally. Fears she says her now-husband agreed with at the time. Tweeden says that at the time of the incident, she was fearful of career repercussions if she said anything. Daily Kos published this article, The Making of Rumor: Does Tweeden Have a Book Deal? on Nov 22, 2017, which explains how the rumor got started. This has been proven false by some seriously hard-core investigative journalism by Maracat. It was alleged that Tweeden had just signed with Sinclair Broadcast Group, as a reward for having gone along with the smear campaign. This raised the questions, How did Stone know about Tweeden's allegations before she made them public?ĥ. It emerged that prior to the publication of Tweeden's allegation, Republican dirty-tricks operative Rodger Stone had orchestrated a massive and coordinated online campaign to promote Tweeden's story and thus destroy Franken, a powerful Democratic Senator. So for you to do something to her, even if she just did the exact same thing to someone who's not-you, is only setting you up for a potential harassment allegation.Ĥ. The lesson to be learned here gentlemen is that just because a woman is willing to do something with some other guy, doesn't mean she's willing to do it with you. It is in fact completely plausible that Tweeden was happy to play grab-ass with the guitarist, but felt revulsion at the idea of Franken playing bobby-grab with her. This is where this question of CONSENT comes into play.
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