Norm Coleman’s statement on lawsuit controversy: It’s all Franken’s fault

Speaking at a campaign appearance in Moorhead, Minnesota, this morning, Norm Coleman called the allegations regarding Coleman and his wife contained in a Texas lawsuit filed this week “absolutely false” and “defamatory.”

But the bulk of Coleman’s prepared remarks were devoted to blaming the controversy, and the underlying litigation itself, on Democratic challenger Al Franken “and his political allies.”

A transcription of Coleman’s prepared remarks follows below.