The senators who recanted their initial support for former Minnesota senator Al Franken's resignation remained silent as a ninth woman has stepped forward to say that the ex-Democratic senator groped her without consent.
The evidence in Jane Mayer's Kavanaugh story was rather weak compared to your average #MeToo story, which is why it is puzzling that Mayer's newest piece is a lengthy diatribe arguing all eight of the women who accused former Democratic Senator Al Franken of impropriety—Democrats and Republicans alike—were mistaken or lying. The argument is Franken is innocent of groping and forced kissing because a lot of people who like Franken insists he is; also, he has a family and cries a lot.
The senators who recanted their initial support for former Minnesota senator Al Franken's resignation remained silent as a ninth woman has stepped forward to say that the ex-Democratic senator groped her without consent. 
