Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her (www.politico.com)

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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.’”

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[-] Bronzor@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago

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.

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