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.’”
This scandal proves again democrats don’t care anymore than republicans do about sexual assault on women despite their pretenses.
Have this user tagged tankie both sideser lol.
Platner likely to step down and many have retracted endorsements.
Actually proving the opposite: Dems hold themselves to a much higher standard.
Same cannot be said for GOP President and rapist and pedophile they all continue to support in lockstep. Sit the fuck down.
Look into the comments on these they are people defending him still and I’m no “tankie” whatever you think that means.
If it was a binary choice between he and Collins who continues to simp for a rapist pedophile and promote atrocious actions like the Iran war, or enabling revocation of USAID that has already led to the death of thousands of children, yes I’m voting Platner who is only accused, not convicted. This is the logical and ethical thing to do.