A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
So she chose not to come forward till after the primary???
We all chose not to believe Lyndsey Fifield because she’s conservative.
That’s a perfectly good reason to not believe someone. Conservatives lie. Regularly and with glee. Especially when it will benefit them politically. It’s ok to treat politically beneficial claims from conservative operatives as likely lies.
Well she was fucking right this time.
Someone being truthful once doesn’t mean they are trustworthy or should have been trusted. If conservative operatives wanted to be given good faith they shouldn’t have spent their entire career gleefully abusing it. It’s perfectly fine to require exceptional proof from known liars.
Well this woman is not conservative. Are you going to believe her more?
Yes.
Maybe read the fucking article where that is addressed?
I did.
I also know that politico was bought by a right wing company controlled by this guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Döpfner#Politics_and_activism
Who describes himself as “non-Jewish Zionist”
Döpfner has been described as a “close associate of Netanyahu.”
So yes, i am skeptical of the timing of this. And so should you be.
Love it how we on the left say “support the victims until proven otherwise.” Yet when it is time for action on those words
“Erm actshually this is kinda sus. Should we really believe this chick? She is trying to mess up a good thing for us here guys.”
Nevermind this absolute monster of a candidate that went to Iraq 5 times. One of which as a merc for blackwater. Is it really such a logical leap from torturing iraqis to raping women? He probably pulled this heinous shit there too. But remember everyone, only american women are people that deserve to be treated as such. That’s why we care only now.
Also love the “non-jewish zionist” point about politico. When platner’s step brother (seth frantzman, his father is married to platner’s mother) is literally a zionist through and through. Maybe you should do a little more research before being “skeptical”. (Bonus points if you can find the sticker that shows how remorsful he is about blackwater on his fridge. Pic taken august 2023)
https://sethfrantzman.com/ (seth frantzman’s very own website!)
https://www.amazon.com/October-War-Israels-Battle-Security/dp/B0DBF4WJRF (frantzman’s own zionist book on october 7th. He also gave a presentation on his other book “drone wars” for aipac)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LG1eR9wxzhs (frantzman directly talking about his history reporting and following the idf)
https://search.pullpush.io/?author=p-hustle&subreddit=usmc&type=comment&q=kill&sort_type=created_utc&sort=desc&before=1578009600&after=1577836800. (Archive of platners post about loving killing iraqis)
If you didn’t know this before, you obviously didn’t look hard enough. Platner should’ve been ditched immediately when he put his name in the running.
Just because Platner has a history of stupid, doesn’t mean people can’t conspire against him. I would not be surprised if both the accusation, and the defense, were both true. But that doesn’t mean we should just swallow whatever a bias media spoon feeds us. Skepticism is always warranted.
Kind of like how even paranoid people have enemies.
A) believe all women.
B) Maybe she didn’t want a traumatic experience public until there was no other choice to keep her assaulter out of office and out of power?
That’s exactly one of the reasons why she didn’t come forward sooner.
The Dems and those on the left all collectively rejected Lyndsey Fifield’s accusation against Platner. I hope we don’t treat this woman the same.
It makes me sad knowing how controversial the statement ‘believe all women’ is on this site.
This place is REAL reddit-y in the ways that matter.