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Trump hammers Franken over photo but remains quiet on Moore accusations

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Trump once again used his Twitter account to express his dismay with Franken.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump waited less than a day to criticize Minnesota Senator Al Franken after a photo was released Thursday showing Franken groping news anchor and model Leanne Tweeden in 2006.
Trump once again used his Twitter account to express his dismay with Franken.
The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2,3,4,5 & 6 while she sleeps?…..
. And to think that just last week he was lecturing anyone who would listen about sexual harassment and respect for women. Lesley Stahl tape?
Tweeden accused Franken of sexual assault through a letter penned for a Los Angeles news station she works at and provided a photo of Franken grabbing her breasts while she was sleeping on an airplane. The duo were working together on a USO Tour in the Middle East when the photo was taken.
Franken was not elected to office until 2008, two years after the photo was taken. Franken apologized shortly after the accusation was leveled and did not deny his role in the photo.
Critics of Trump however were quick to point out the president did not offer the same level of disgust over accusations that Alabama Senator candidate Roy Moore has assaulted women, including one as young as 14 years old.
While other Republican leaders such as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have said they have no reason not to believe the accusers, Trump has remained noticeably quiet.
On Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders would not answer questions on whether or not Trump believes the accusers or if Moore should quit the race.
“He thinks that the people of Alabama should make the decision on who their next senator should be,” Sanders said.
Trump’s selective anger on the subject is noticeable to many as he himself has been accused of sexual harassment more than a dozen times. Last year during the run up to the election audio of Trump bragging about grabbing women leaked. However Trump chalked that audio up to “locker room talk” and denied ever actually assaulting women.

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