Franken Accuser Defends Trump and Moore

[TomCADem]

So strange that Franken’s accusers defended Trump and Moore.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/stephanie-kemplin-franken-not-owning-up-actions

He just keeps passing the buck and making it out to be something that we — we took his behavior the wrong way or we misconstrued something or that we just — we just flat-out lied about what happened to us,” she continued.

Kemplin made the comments when asked if Franken’s resignation is justice for allegedly groping several women. Kemplin said that his resignation does not feel like justice to her and that she would like to see him acknowledge his behavior.

“Justice to me would be him owning up to what he did and to stop trying to pass the buck onto other individuals who possibly — they did commit the same things, maybe even more heinous than what he’s done,” she said, perhaps referencing to Franken’s comment in his resignation speech that President Donald Trump and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore have not seen the same repercussions for their alleged sexual misconduct.

[Botany]

1. It was a hit job

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029943468

[brooklynite]

2. "they did commit the same things, maybe even more heinous than what hes done,"

Boy, with a defense like that.

[TomCADem]

8. So how is that passing the buck?

If anything, it is entirely appropriate for Franken to note the allegations against a trump and Moore, since Franken is resigning.

[ollie10]

3. Maybe the reverse is in order?

If you can support the numerous gropings of President Trump, the bragging about sexual assault, and the pedophilia of Moore....how can you compare those things to the minor things Franken has been accused of?

And, PS, if you want to talk about hypocrisy why were your hands all over that guy's butt on stage?

[liberal_patriot_md]

6. Different accuser.

This is the one who said Franken cupped her breast for 5-10 in a crowded room filled with soldiers while others waited in line for a picture. The fact the picture she does have shows nothing of the kind is because after enduring the cupping for many seconds she moved in the last instant before the picture was snapped so his hand was in an innocuous position.

[LisaM]

4. Passing the buck?

Did she listen to his speech? She twists things as much as KellyAnne Conway.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Neither the headline, nor the article, suggests the claim in your title

that a Franken accuser was defending Trump or Moore.

[onethatcares]

7. somewhere in all this

are thirty pieces of silver. The price of a soul, the wage for a lie. but that is only my opinion.

[OilemFirchen]

9. "The lady at table four returned her dinner."

"Says she wanted two pounds of flesh."

[califootman]

10. He's not passing the buck.

He just keeps passing the buck and making it out to be something that we — we took his behavior the wrong way or we misconstrued something or that we just — we just flat-out lied about what happened to us,” she continued.

Senator Franken was not passing the buck.

He was saying:

- that you and these other women felt that he had touched you inappropriately.

- that he did not know that you felt that way.

- that he was sorry that he made you feel that way.

- that he did not think he had touched you inappropriately.



Just think. A man just resigned from the United States Senate because he might have... MIGHT have... touched a few too many square centimeters of side boob and pressed a few too many pounds per inch per inch of pressure on some butt cheeks during congenial photo ops. (Oh, and squeezed a waist... the scoundrel!)

It is a grievous fault, and grievously hath he answered it.