Images newly released from a 2000 magazine, obtained by The Post, included a number of frats showing Al Franken grabbing Arianna Huffington’s butt and breasts as they posed back to back.

“Franken was clowning around, but it really isn’t funny,” said a source from the shoot. “That’s his tactic, pretend like it’s all a big joke. Arianna was pushing his hands away. He was groping her. There was some fun attached to it, but she wasn’t enjoying it. She definitely told him to stop and pushed him away.”

Franken has recently been accused of groping several women over the years.

“Franken stood there with his hand on her bottom for a long time, because there are numerous frames, each taken seconds apart, and his hand was there the whole time — his hand wasn’t just there for a quick moment,” the source said.

Arianna, however, remembers it differently. “The notion that there was anything inappropriate in this photo shoot is truly absurd,” she said in a statement to The Post.