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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.
Harry Siegel
Published
Dec. 8 2017
4:39AM EST
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast
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