Al Franken Groped Leeann Tweeden!

Picture this. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) apparently groping a woman. When he was an entertainer he did the USO Tour and this picture seems pretty incriminating.

For Roy Moore, this is the turning point he needed. The Republicans are hoping they could get a distraction. How about this one? 

Minnesota senator caught up in a sex scandal. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is currently the junior senator for the state. He won his reelection bid easily in 2014. Not so sure if he could win the nomination in 2020.

Franken is an entertainer like Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) and Donald J. Trump. 

Franken was elected to serve in 2009. He was then an actor, comedian, talk show host, book writer, and currently a politican.

And like Trump, Franken is now accused of sexaul abuse. 

Leeann Tweeden, a former model, TV host, currently a radio news reporter shared a photo of her being allegedly groped by Franken when he was doing his USO charity event. The picture shows his hands close to the woman.

On radio, Tweeden shares her story.

In December of 2006, I embarked on my ninth USO Tour to entertain our troops, my eighth to the Middle East since the 9/11 attacks. My father served in Vietnam and my then-boyfriend (and now husband, Chris) is a pilot in the Air Force, so bringing a ‘little piece of home’ to servicemembers stationed far away from their families was both my passion and my privilege.

Also on the trip were country music artists Darryl Worley, Mark Wills, Keni Thomas, and some cheerleaders from the Dallas Cowboys. The headliner was comedian and now-senator, Al Franken.

Franken had written some skits for the show and brought props and costumes to go along with them. Like many USO shows before and since, the skits were full of sexual innuendo geared toward a young, male audience.

As a TV host and sports broadcaster, as well as a model familiar to the audience from the covers of FHM, Maxim and Playboy, I was only expecting to emcee and introduce the acts, but Franken said he had written a part for me that he thought would be funny, and I 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.

Former model now TV and radio commentator Leeann Tweeden accused Democratic senator Al Franken of Minnesota of groping her and trying to kiss her.

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.’

He continued to insist, and I was beginning to get 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.

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.

I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.

I felt disgusted and violated.

Not long after, I performed the skit as written, carefully turning my head so he couldn’t kiss me on the lips.

No one saw what happened backstage. I didn’t tell the Sergeant Major of the Army, who was the sponsor of the tour. I didn’t tell our USO rep what happened.

At the time I didn’t want to cause trouble. We were in the middle of a war zone, it was the first show of our Holiday tour, I was a professional, and I could take care of myself. I told a few of the others on the tour what Franken had done and they knew how I felt about it.

I tried to let it go, but I was angry.

Other than our dialogue on stage, I never had a voluntary conversation with Al Franken again. I avoided him as much as possible and made sure I was never alone with him again for the rest of the tour.

Franken repaid me with petty insults, including drawing devil horns on at least one of the headshots I was autographing for the troops.

But he didn’t stop there.

The tour wrapped and on Christmas Eve we began the 36-hour trip home to L.A. After 2 weeks of grueling travel and performing I was exhausted. When our C-17 cargo plane took off from Afghanistan I immediately fell asleep, even though I was still wearing my flak vest and Kevlar helmet.

It wasn’t until I was back in the US and looking through the CD of photos we were given by the photographer that I saw this the picture.

I couldn’t believe it. He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep.

I felt violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated.

How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it’s funny.

I told my husband everything that happened and showed him the picture.

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.

But that was then, this is now. I’m no longer afraid. 

This is already being splashed on social media. 

Franken came out publicly to admit that he fucked up. He apologized but it won't calm the storm. The senator publicly released a statement today.

Bet you money, conservative agitators are already calling for his resignation. 

Bet you money, there are more victims.

Bet you money, he isn't the only one in Washington, DC, Hollywood, Broadway, Silicon Valley, the church, the schools and fly over country caught up in sex scandals or allegations of sexual harassment.

Politics aside, it's mostly White men in power. Regardless of how we see it.

Yes, people of color have used power to take advantage of men and women.

I like most men love sex. We live in a sex fueled society where we are driven by things that drive us to sex. The opoid crisis has women selling their bodies for arm candy.

Women don't have the sex drive men have.

Everyone is held to a standard. The inappropriate behavior and jokes are no longer amusing. 

The pictures of you can be used against you.

Franken caught up in sex scandal.

Bill O'Reilly is a former nemesis of Franken. I bet he's dying to hop on social media demanding that he should get his job back after Franken had his 30 minutes.

Count on Fox News to exploit this scandal.

Reminder the second most dangerous threat in the United States is sexual abuse. Lawmakers in Washington are concerned.

If we can hold Franken, Moore, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Brett Reiner, Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton accountable, how about Donald J. Trump?

If you believe Tweeden's account, then you should believe Moore and Trump's accusers.