General Discussion

Not to mention, the obvious assumption that Al Franken did something wrong, despite the highly questionable nature of the awfully conveniently timed accusations.
Mother Jones did a write up on that:

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/07/defending-al-franken-for-real/

While we may never know if any of those events actually happened, the fact that they never came up before the Tweeden accusation, no one can corroborate any of them with any hard evidence or even impartial witnesses, despite supposedly happening in public, and the women all went silent the second he stepped down, makes it all highly suspect.