Politics

Al Franken Predicted His Own Sex Scandal Resignation—in 1999

Why Not Him?

Long before his name was bandied about as a presidential possible, Franken wrote his own parodical path into, and then out of, the Oval Office. It’s weirdly resonant now.

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