Democratic senators came out in droves Wednesday in calling for Franken to resign after another accuser told Politico he tried to forcibly kiss her in 2006. Franken intends to hold a press conference to discuss his future on Thursday. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand · Kirsten Elizabeth GillibrandElaine Chao: ...
In October 2016, PEOPLE writer Natasha Stoynoff came forward to accuse then-candidate Donald Trump of attacking her in 2005 by pushing her up against a wall at his Mar-a-Lago estate and shoving his tongue down her throat. Now, more than a year later, Stoynoff sees accusations of sexual ...
Only one of the seven accusers, whose accusations are detailed below, points to an alleged incident that happened while he was serving as a senator. ... This first accuser told the Huffington Post that she voted for him "after this happened" but wanted to tell her story, calling Franken "a serial groper." ...
See, the accuser had been on Sean Hannity's show. She must therefore be a right-winger. She could have been put up to this, they speculated. Roger Stone had tweeted that the “touchy” Franken was about to be exposed six hours before the story dropped. That's fishy, they surmised. They all sounded ...
Forced arbitration clauses can prohibit an accuser from going to court or dealing with the incident in other public means. ... Forced arbitration clauses and other legal tools for silencing sexual harassment accusers have been a common fixture in cases involving prominent figures in media, entertainment, ...
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has scheduled a news conference for Thursday after a quick flood of Democratic senators -- led by Democratic women -- called for him to resign Wednesday in the face of a seventh sexual-harassment accuser. And it seems quite likely that at this news conference, Franken will ...
A former female intern for Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said that the Michigan Democrat brought up murdered Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy when she rejected his sexual advances. Courtney Morse, 36, the latest woman to come forward accusing Conyers of sexual misconduct, informed ...
A former female intern for Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said that the Michigan Democrat brought up murdered Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy when she rejected his sexual advances. Courtney Morse, 36, the latest woman to come forward accusing Conyers of sexual misconduct, informed ...
The drip-drip-drip of Franken's accusers: Franken now faces sexual harassment allegations by more than half a dozen women. On Wednesday, the seventh: Politico reported that a congressional staffer said she had to duck Franken when he tried to forcibly kiss her in 2006, just as he was ramping up for ...
It should go without saying that a sitting U.S. Senator being accused of sexual harassment and assault from six women is six women too many. However, if you're a colleague and friend of said sitting U.S. Senator, seven women is "a bridge too far." On Wednesday, several Democrats called on Sen.