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[EX Q]: In the latest twist in the sexual harassment controversies roiling Congress  Republicans have taken to defending  Democratic Sen. Al Franken .
Yes  thatâs right. While  Franken  announced Thursday  he  would resign in the âcoming weeksâ amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct  some Republicans are not so sure  he  should have to leave the Senate.
âWhat you saw today was a lynch mob â former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday on Laura Ingrahamâs Fox News show after at least 35 Democratic Senators called on  Franken  to step aside. âLetâs not have due process. Letâs not ask anybody any questions. Letâs not have any chance to have a hearing. Letâs just lynch him  because when we get done lynching him  weâll be so pure.â
Eight women have accused  Franken  of sexually harassing them  with the most recent being a woman who told Politico this week that  Franken  tried to forcibly kiss her in 2006.
But Gingrich is not alone in claiming the Democrats are not acting entirely out of sincere moral concern. When interviewing Gingrich on Wednesday  Ingraham also said she believes the Democrats are using  Franken âs situation to claim the moral high ground so they can try to take down Republicans accused of sexual misconduct like President Donald Trump and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
They have used a variety of tactics to dismiss the claims against him  but many of them come down to Republicans saying they do not have proof he did anything wrong. That seems to be the argument GOPers are using again to defend  Franken .
And the Washington Examinerâs Byron York also raised concerns about  Franken  not receiving due process.
[EX A]: Al Franken

[EX Q]: Hackers  concealed behind fanciful aliases on the Internet  often appropriate larger-than-life dimensions. In reality  other than in physical proportions  Sabu seemed considerably smaller than life. A defensive-lineman-size man known as Booby  he was raising the two young children of his imprisoned aunt in a public housing project. Court documents showed that Mr. Monsegur  28  paid bills with stolen credit cards and dabbled in drug sales.
 Mr. Monsegur’s  whereabouts are unknown  and  his  lawyers declined to comment.  His  background remains gauzy  but court records and interviews with relatives and neighbors offer an outline.
 He  was born in 1983.  His  father  also named Hector  Monsegur   was arrested in 1997 along with  his  sister  Iris  for selling heroin. Both went to prison for seven years.
While  his  father was locked up   Mr. Monsegur  apparently moved in with  his  grandmother  Irma  who lived in a sixth-floor apartment in the Jacob Riis Houses  a Lower East Side housing project.
School officials said  Mr. Monsegur  attended Washington Irving High School  but left in 2001 without finishing ninth grade. In the transcript of  his  guilty plea   Mr. Monsegur  said that  he  went to college  though it is unclear if  he  actually did.
After  his  release from prison in early 2003  Mr. Monsegur’s father found work with a sanitation company. The aunt  Iris  ran a credit repair company from her Staten Island home. Her involvement with drugs  however  continued. She was arrested again and returned to prison in 2010. By that point she had had two girls. They were entrusted to the care of  the younger Mr. Monsegur   and  he  gained legal custody of them.
Even after  his  aunt left prison last August  her children remained with  Mr. Monsegur .
 He  worked sporadically  including for a few months at OpenPlans  a nonprofit group that tries to improve government through technology.  His  profile on the networking site LinkedIn   which listed  him  as a senior systems administrator there  disappeared on Thursday. A former co-worker described  him  as friendly and competent.
 Mr. Monsegur  was active in computer and hacking circles as far back as the late 1990s  and started a group for local programmers in 2002. “My name is Xavier ”  he  announced  inviting others to join and “integrate their knowledge into one big mass of hairy information.”
 He  soon came to embrace strong antigovernment and anticapitalist ideologies that steered  him  into the hacking world.
In what was identified as a question-and-answer interview with Sabu published in New Scientist magazine last year   he  said that  he  became a hacktivist when  he  was 16.  He  said  he  became disturbed that the Navy was using Vieques Island in Puerto Rico as a bombing range for exercises  and that  he  helped disrupt communications. In 2010   he  said in the interview   he  was drawn to Anonymous   a leaderless  antiauthoritarian movement that has taken up a variety of political causes. The catalyst   he  said  was  his  outrage over the arrest of Julian Assange   founder of WikiLeaks   the whistle-blower site.
In particular   he  became a leader of a splinter group  Lulz Security  or LulzSec  which claimed to attack computer security companies for laughs  or lulz  rather than for financial gain.
Describing  himself    he  said in the interview  “I’m not some cape-wearing hero  nor am I some supervillain trying to bring down the good guys. I’m just doing what I know how to do  and that is counter abuse.” For his online handle he chose Sabu  adopted from a former professional wrestler.
In 2010 and 2011  according to court documents   Mr. Monsegur  participated in a relentless string of online attacks against companies and governments. Targets included Visa  MasterCard   PayPal and Sony .  He  also played a role in attacks on computers belonging to the governments of Tunisia   Yemen   Algeria and Zimbabwe  as well as those of the United States Senate .
Though he was self-taught   Mr. Monsegur  was probably among the most skilled technologists in the bunch. As the “rooter ” federal authorities say   he  was in charge of identifying vulnerabilities of LulzSec targets and creating the attack strategy.
Copies of LulzSec chat logs posted online show that  he  was sometimes wary of getting caught. In one discussion   he  is irate at  his  fellow hackers for revealing the name of a site used in an attack  because it could expose  his  computer’s location. Another participant is deferential: “Mm  okay  ill not say anything further without conferring with you.”
[EX A]: Monsegur

[EX Q]: You may remember  what seems like 15 years ago  when  Donald Trump Jr.  took to Twitter to offer a candy-related metaphor. In this metaphor  a bowl full of Skittles were refugees  but three of the Skittles were poison. There were many problems with this metaphor.
 Trump  is back at it with the candy-related metaphors  seeking to make a point about socialism using  his  daughter's trick-or-treating haul from Halloween on Tuesday night.
And yet again   he  doesn't seem to have thought it through completely.
Iâm going to take half of Chloeâs candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. Itâs never to early to teach her about socialism. pic.twitter.com/3ie9C0jv2G â Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 31  2017
âI'm going to take half of Chloe's candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home â  Trump Jr.  declared. âIt's never to early to teach her about socialism.â
As with the Skittles tweet   Trump  appears to have cribbed this idea from someone else. Alex Jones's conspiracy-theory website posted something Monday featuring a video of kids having to turn over their candy in the name of âsocialism.â âWATCH: Kids Learn Painful Lesson on Socialism with Their Halloween Candy â reads the headline.
And as with the Skittles tweet  this one was met with plenty of skepticism and derision. There are clearly problems with it â not the least of which is that we're now using cute little kids on Halloween to make political points and that  Trump  misspelled âtooâ while talking about teaching  his  daughter something.
 Donald Trump Jr.  took to Twitter to offer a Halloween candy-related metaphor to socialism on Oct. 31. Here is how the Internet reacted. (Taylor Turner/The Washington Post)
Someone in the highest income bracket already pays 39.6 percent of their income beyond $418 000 (or beyond $470 000 if married filing jointly) in federal taxes  and in fact  the marginal tax rate for high earners in Trump's home state of New York is already around 50 percent. So that's actually about the correct amount of candy for  Trump  to confiscate -- if we're considering candy as "income" -- even in our capitalist country.
There are certainly ways in which the wealthy avoid taxes â which many noted in response to  Trump 's tweet â and income via investments is taxed differently. But the point stands that turning over a large chunk of candy would be expected from someone with the last name â Trump .â
And then there's the inescapable fact that  Trump 's daughter just literally accepted handouts from other people rather than earning the candy herself via hard work. As some noted  that's pretty socialism-y.
[EX A]:
Donald Trump Jr.