Fifield, 41, is the second woman to allege this week that Platner engaged in nonconsensual sexual conduct. Jenny Racicot, 41, who said she previously dated Platner, told The Post and other outlets on Monday that he sexually assaulted her in late 2021, leading a growing number of allies to drop their endorsements and call on him to withdraw from the race for a Maine seat in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), his most influential and prominent supporter, said he spoke with Platner on Tuesday and urged him to withdraw from his campaign to unseat Susan Collins, the incumbent Republican.
Platner, 41, a Marine Corps veteran and oyster farmer, also denied Racicot’s allegation but said on Monday that he was “mindful of the political reality” that the reporting will “inflict” on his campaign and was “taking the time to reflect on the best path forward.”
Fifield initially told The Post about the alleged condom removal during a June 20 interview that was off the record. She said she decided to speak publicly about it Tuesday in part because, she said, she wanted to show that Racicot was not alone in experiencing issues with Platner involving sexual consent.
Fifield, who spent 7 years working for the Heritage Foundation and made all of these accusations a few months ago without any evidence, is the reason why people are so hesitant to take the more recent one seriously.
If the Heritage Foundation is doing anything to take you down, you’re probably doing something right.
The Politco story is well sourced with therapist and boyfriend messages from before Platner was ever in politics.
Sometimes a broken clock is correct, this is one of those times.
Did they publish the evidence? Or are we to take the word of complicit media?
There are images of the texts in the Politico article. The therapist and ex-boyfriend’s testimonies as well.
It’s not about taking the word of complicit media - it’s about taking this woman’s word.
I for one do believe her, however not without skepticism stemming from the massive and well funded effort to get him out of the race and put a friendly (to neo liberals) in position for critical votes. Both parties are making a massive effort here and therefore their actions, and those of media under their control are more suspect. I hadn’t seen the publication of evidence yesterday, guess I missed it. Thank you for sharing.
The evidence is compelling. I’d highly suggest reading the full Politico article.
So Maine’s choices are an alleged sexual assualter or a known and confirmed adjudicated rapist and 99.9% likely a pedo protector known as Susan Collins? Two extremely shitty choices, I’ll admit.
Platner could drop out and allow a better candidate to run.
He should have never made it this far.
I mean that’s the whole asymmetric corner we’ve painted ourselves into. Every time you give flimsy accusations the benefit of the doubt, you make real accusations less credibile. Every time you doubt real accusations, you enable rape culture. Normally the ethics seem clear - always believe women and rape culture eventually starves. But what if fascists weaponize the issue before that happens?
Yeah, common sense says a conservative activist doing this during a campaign is probably full of shit. But didn’t Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers have the same smell? Maybe jumping in front of the spotlight is the only way these women can be taken seriously.
Heritage foundation… Yeah they are pretty much all liars . plus aren’t they against contraception?
It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).”
The Heritage Foundation is the at the root of a lot of the issues in the U.S. right now, it really can’t be overstated just how malicious they are. They write the policies and vet the candidates, if they’re not the actual shadowy cabal they definitely share some membership.