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All of a sudden, a whole bunch of Democrats are ready to ditch Maine Dem Senate hopeful Graham Platner. Platner has a Nazi tattoo. He spoke out against veterans even though he is a veteran. The New York Times ran a whole story about sexual assault accusers, the key one being a conservative (so she was discredited by her politics alone by the leftist powers that be). But none of that was enough.
It took a woman coming forward and actually saying that Platner broke into her home and raped her for Platner's Dem backers to begin to pull away. The charge was led by socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders but others quickly followed, like his Massachusetts senatorial crony Liz Warren and California's Ro Khanna.
Accuser Jenny Racicot was contacted by the Times for their June report, but she spoke to them off the record and they decided not to go corroborate the details of her story. Instead, they wrote that she stopped speaking to him "after an incident in 2021 when Platner had come over drunk." Then the Times reported that Racicot "declined to elaborate."
Politico detailed the story, writing that Platner "forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections." They corroborated her story with a previous boyfriend in whom she confided, as well as through documents and messages between Racicot, her therapist, and another friend.
The Times had that same info and they could have corroborated it the same way Politico did. But they preferred, and at the time it appeared that they preferred, to let the one accuser they highlighted take the brunt of the abuse from Platner supporters.
In fact, when asked about why she decided to come forward now, Racicot said "One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person. I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person."
Platner's accuser had not previously come forward because she agreed with his politics. I guess she didn't want to keep a good Dem down. Neither did Democrat supporters who weren't interested in concerning themselves with Platner's shortcomings. Yet this is the party that seeks to lecture the rest of us on what it means to be a good person. There's absolutely no credibility.
After the allegations from Racicot were revealed, Lyndsey Fifield, who had been the bulk of the Times story, came forward again to say that Platner "stealthed" her during sex, meaning he removed the condom without her consent. Racicot had said he did this to her as well.
Platner may have no choice but to drop out, though he hasn't yet. But know that if he does, it's not because he thinks he did anything wrong and not because his high-powered supporters think he did anything wrong but because the Democrat machine decided he was too heavy to keep lifting and decided to let him drop.
Libby