E. Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who accused President Trump of rape, said that former Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, who resigned over sexual harassment allegations, is not a pervert.
“I worked with Al Franken, who was the least pervy guy in New York,” Carroll said in her recently released book What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal. “What the Democrats were thinking when they made him leave the U.S. Senate is beyond me.”
In 2017, Al Franken was caught up in the #MeToo movement when half-a-dozen women said the Minnesota Democrat had touched them inappropriately. One woman, Stephanie Kemplin, said he touched her breast in 2003.
Time traveler arrives in 2006.
Stop! Don’t pretend to grab Leeann Tweeden’s breasts, Al Franken! It will lead to a child molester being elected Senator and a tax hike on the middle class!
Franken: Get out of here, buddy. pic.twitter.com/mTCMjCVesN— Rick G. Rosner (@dumbassgenius) November 16, 2017
Franken resigned his Senate seat but contested many of the allegations against him.
“I also think it gave some people the false impression that I was admitting to doing things that in fact I haven’t done,” Franken said.
“I know there’s been a very different picture of me painted over the last few weeks, but I know who I really am,” Franken added.
Carroll’s defense of the former senator comes after she claimed in her book that Trump sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman in either 1995 or 1996.
She claimed that the event was not “rape” but rather a “fight” because “rape carries so many sexual connotations. This was not sexual. It just hurt.”
