POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump lashed out at Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, in two suggestive Twitter posts late Thursday [11-16-17] night after the senator was accused by a Los Angeles radio newscaster of kissing and groping her more than a decade ago.
Leeann Tweeden, the newscaster, made the allegations earlier Thursday about Mr. Franken’s behavior while both of them were performing on a 2006 U.S.O. tour. She released a picture showing Mr. Franken, a former writer for ‘Saturday Night Live,’ appearing to grab her breasts while she was sleeping...
The president’s decision to tweet about Mr. Franken’s case immediately drew comparisons to his own behavior as revealed by an ‘Access Hollywood’ tape. Released by The Washington Post in early October 2016, just weeks before the presidential election, it revealed Mr. Trump talking in vulgar terms about women.
Mr. Trump later apologized for his language on the tape, saying that ‘these words don’t reflect who I am.’ But since then, he has described his comments as ‘locker-room talk.’…
Before the election, several women told The New York Times that Mr. Trump assaulted them, touching them inappropriately. Several others told the newspaper that Mr. Trump behaved improperly around them.”
-Michael D. Shear, “Trump, a Veteran of Sexual Harassment Accusations, Scolds Franken,” The New York Times online, Nov. 16, 2017