Matt Damon Wants Al Franken & Harvey Weinstein In Separate Categories

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Matt Damon sat down for an interview on ABC’s Popcorn with Peter Travers, and said that America is going through a “watershed moment” but that Al Franken and Harvey Weinstein don’t belong in the same category.

Al Franken has been accused of sexual misconduct and took inappropriate pictures of him pretending to touch a female’s breasts; while Weinstein has a decades-long track record of raping and assaulting women.

“I think it’s wonderful that women are feeling empowered to tell their stories, and it’s totally necessary,” he shared. “I do believe there’s a spectrum of behavior… There’s a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated.”

“When you see Al Franken taking a picture putting his hands on that woman’s flak jacket and mugging for the camera… that is just like a terrible joke, and it’s not funny. It’s wrong, and he shouldn’t have done that,” he added. “But when you talk about Harvey and what he’s accused of, there are no pictures of that. He knew he was up to no good. There’s no witnesses. There’s no pictures. There’s no braggadocio. That stuff happened secretly, because it was criminal and he knew it. So they don’t belong in the same category.”