Al Franken’s name once again trended on social media Monday thanks to a lengthy profile on the former Minnesota Senator by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker
, which runs to more than 12,000 words, features an extensive interview with Franken. The former writer and performer onreflects on having to resign his Senate seat in December 2017 after several accusations of inappropriate physical contact with women. Mayer’s own Twitter tease for her story sums up her feelings on the matter: “How @alfranken got railroaded,” she wrote before linking to the piece.
Reaction has been pointed and voluminous as the story lands nearly two years after the cavalcade of accusations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the modern #MeToo era. Mayer — whose books include Koch Brothers investigation Dark Money and whose recentsubjects have included Fox News and one of Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanagh’s accusers.
Franken is just the fourth Senator since the Civil War to resign under threat of expulsion, Mayer notes. His downfall followed a period when he had emerged as a seasoned and tough opponent on the left for President Donald Trump’s administration. While he was replaced with a Democrat in Minnesota, Tina Smith, Franken and his allies argue that he paid too high a price and that the system for evaluating claims of sexual misconduct is broken.
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