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You’ll Never Guess Who Just Defended Al Franken (Hint: He Was Going To Be ‘First Dude’)

John Bickley

It’s been quite a busy week for the would-be first “First Dude,” whose attempt to put the Monica Lewinsky story to bed on NBC didn’t go over so well, and whose “do-over” with Stephen Colbert the next night just earned more collective groans. To close out the week, Bill Clinton decided it was time someone finally came to the defense of alleged “groper” Al Franken.

Speaking with PBS’s Judy Woodruff on Thursday, Bill Clinton got another shot at addressing the #MeToo movement in a slightly more palatable way. The movement, he said, was generally a “good thing” that was helping to bring some much-needed changes to the sexual harassment problem. But while he generally praised the movement, as Town Hall notes, he also defended one of the men brought down by it.

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