Below is my column in The Hill on the Graham Platner controversy on the eighth anniversary of the Kavanaugh nomination. It now appears that there are some women who are not to be believed . . . when the Senate may be in the balance.
Here is the column:
“It’s clear the fix is in.” Those words from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). came with her vote against confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Warren was outraged that her fellow senators refused to believe a woman who came forward with a decades-old allegation against Kavanaugh that lacked any corroboration.
It now appears that Kavanaugh’s former accusers are making the case that he was treated unjustly at their hands. At least they are now willing to swap “Me Too” for Maine.
Warren’s words were part of a mantra from Democratic members that either you believe women about sexual harassment and assault, or you are enabling abusers.
It was almost exactly eight years ago, in July 2018, that President Trump nominated Kavanaugh to fill the seat of retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kavanaugh, who was at first a very uncontroversial nominee, suddenly became the target of a well-financed, well-orchestrated campaign that would continue to resonate in that fall’s election campaigns. At the time, your failure to accept the word of Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh had assaulted her in high school was just proof that you and the system were sexist.
Long after the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh, the left continued to claim that his presence on the Supreme Court “rests on a mountain of misogyny.” In Ms. Magazine, actress Kathleen Turner reminded people that not believing women was furthering misogyny: “Survivors who come forward break the rules of silence a sexist society demands, and society expects them to pay a price.”
If you recall, the lack of evidence led to the Senate Judiciary Committee combing through Kavanaugh’s personal calendars. Denials that such a thing had ever happened, coming from childhood friends, were treated as still more evidence of sexism.
There was Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who grilled Kavanaugh about using the term “boofing” (apparently referring to passing gas) with a high school friend as if it were a confession to a rape. His inquisitorial barrage was something straight out of the McCarthy period.
Whitehouse expressed disgust that some would not take Ford’s word for it, declaring, “Today I stand with women who are brave enough to come forward with their stories of abuse and mistreatment. They deserve to be heard and credible allegations must be investigated. We must believe survivors, not bully them.”
Whitehouse is now a major donor and supporter of Graham Platner, the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Maine. He dismisses the New York Times accounts from women of Platner’s physically and mentally abusive behavior. Instead of believing these women, he reportedly attacked Lyndsey Fifield, who “bravely” came forward publicly with her story at the request of Times reporters.
Whitehouse is quoted as saying that he was “unimpressed” by the allegations and the multiple women coming forward “seems like a lot of nothing.” He suggested that he is not prepared to believe a woman if she is a conservative. “I mean, the only one who had anything to say that seemed ‘unsettling’ was a woman who works for right-wing political operations,” he said.
That attack was picked up by others like writer Krystal Ball. She too had denounced those who did not believe Ford in the Kavanaugh controversy. In the past, she claimed at that time, “women just didn’t come forward. They knew they wouldn’t be believed.”
Now she cannot imagine why anyone would believe these women, particularly Fifield. “NYT published uncorroborated accusations against [Platner] of ‘unsettling’ and ‘toxic’ behavior that came from a Heritage staffer who previously worked for a conservative org that backs Collins,” she posted online.
Fifield, after sharing stories with the Times of Platner’s alleged abusive behavior, went public to complain that the newspaper had failed to include the corroboration she had provided. She posted that the paper not only failed to include that she has supported Democrats for office, but also asked, “Why does it say ‘nobody could corroborate’ when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?”
She added, “The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.”
If true, that is a strikingly different approach from the one taken by the media in reporting on the Kavanaugh allegations.
All the familiar faces are now attacking or dismissing these allegations. That includes Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who campaigned for Platner this week. Khanna had previously pounded his chest in public over the Kavanaugh allegations: “I believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.”
Some of the usual suspects are now quiet, and for good reason. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) dismissed Kavanaugh’s claims of innocence but later resigned from their respective offices after accusations of misconduct and harassment.
Of course, the sexual misconduct and mistreatment of women is not the only controversy surrounding Platner, who has reportedly ridiculed a wounded veteran, dismissed rape victims, and made other comments on his since-deleted Reddit account about Blacks and rural Mainers that would be considered disqualifying for most candidates. He made many other posts that were deeply offensive and some that were, frankly, gross.
Nevertheless, figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) would not even address the allegations, simply repeating awkwardly, “We’re going to … take back the Senate.”
Back in 2018, Schumer was proclaiming on the Senate floor, “For too long, when women have made serious allegations of abuse, they have been ignored. That cannot happen in this case.”
For her part, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) proclaimed her faith in any woman making such allegations in 2018. Now, she repeats, like Schumer, “I’m very optimistic we’re going to win Maine.”
In “A Man for All Seasons,” there is a scene where Sir Thomas More confronts Richard Rich, a former protege who lied in court to convict him in exchange for being named attorney general of Wales. As Rich passes by, More asks: “For Wales? Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for Wales!”
The response by Democratic leaders today appears to be, “Well, yeah — not for Wales, but we’ll do it for Maine.”
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.“
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Make your reservations today!
aw, poor baby, you only got one response when you posted this last time, so you needed to try again.
It seems the Democrat Party is millions of people just like Gigi.
The prof. yet again illustrates the flexibility of firm principle that the Democrats display. This is not exactly new. In her 2024 book, “Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty”, Hillary Clinton states that “[she] set out to be a voice for women who are silenced by repression.” Hillary Clinton was noticeably not the voice for the women, or as she called them “bimbos”, being chased by Bill. They did not even merit a mention in her book – imagine that.
Not true. I personally know that Hillary did not approve of that “leaked” insult about rolling a quarter down the alley to entice the white trash to go a hunting for it. Absolutely pleaded with her gang not to let that one slip out! Not that one, boys!
I am going to attempt to engage in wokespeak. Here goes s@@libs:
Fascist women (i.e. those to the right of Lenin) are presumptively lying or mistaken in their assertions against a righteous, progressive leftist. And even if not, any leftist excesses are excusable because the progressive wants to build a better world and one cannot make an omelet without breaking some eggs!
How did I do s@@tlibs?
antonio
The Democrats have swapped Me Too for Mein Kampf. Professor Turely is just to polite to.say that.
New York Times reporter under scrutiny as Biden accuser says she had similar experience as Graham Platner’s ex
“Tara Reade accused NY Times of mishandling her assault claim against Joe Biden”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-reporter-under-scrutiny-biden-accuser-says-she-had-similar-experience-graham-platners-ex
The Fake Farmer is on a roll this morning.
Th count is now 9 out of 95 comments.
And ANO has no life.. Cry baby
Wow, that comment sure disproved the point made by UpstateFarmer regarding Tara Reade and Joe Biden.
As of this comment, there are 75 comments made by Anonymous of 143 comments. Almost 50%. Of which, only a few are reasonable, sane and normal.
The rest belong to the ^^ annony.
“He’s f—ed up, he’s been shot at, he’s a veteran, he’s a little bit weird, he’s an oysterman.”
“Then his opponent, I can hardly say her name without the utter contempt dripping, Susan Collins, whose spine reminds me of a blueberry jelly from Maine,” he said. “Maybe we need a combat veteran right on that Senate floor who is f—ed up.”
“If you believe, as I do, that the country is in imminent peril — I mean imminent peril — who is most likely to slow this criminal in charge? Susan ‘Blueberry Jelly’ Collins, or five degrees off dead center Graham Platner?” Carville asked. “I think it’s Graham Platner.”
“And you know if Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill could work with Joseph Stalin — who, by the way, well, I’ll tell you this, he was a bad guy, a really bad guy, alright — then I can overlook a tattoo,” Carville added.
— Democrat strategist James Carville
A guy who literally had a Nazi tattoo for some 17 years, bragged about according to an ex-girl friend, same girl friend he manhandled, and they call Trump a Nazi?
Fake Farmer
So far this morning there have been 88 comments. You have made 8 of them, accounting for almost 10% of the total number.
Don’t try to tell us that you are a farmer.
You spend the entire day here, reading EVERYTHING and commenting furiously like a crazed madman.
Still crying I see. Life is really hard for. Isn’t it.
Carville a source? A source of what? He’s a political hack has been, he should seeking hibernation with HRC.
Do you support Trump’s war in Iran?
Only dummies would not support ending Iran’s nuclear program.
Do you fit into that category?
100%, I support him as this regime has been wreaking havoc in the ME and killing thousands of innocent people including Americans for at least 47 years. Reagan should have taken them out when he was president.
Trump is the ONLY President to have the guts to do it. The only way peace will ever have an opportunity to happen in that region of the world is to allow the Iranian people to evolve out from under the Mullahs Stone Age grip. The only way that will ever happen is with America setting the stage for the Iranian people to be able to exercise freedom without the threat of death.
He should keep the pressure on them and see it to the end. IMHO Israel should back off or face going it alone.
I agree with you almost completely, but the question of Israel backing off is complex. We don’t even know that Trump objects to them defending themselves from incoming missiles from Iran or its Hezbollah proxy. Talk is talk, not fact. We do not have a right to prevent any nation from defending itself. Israel has the right to control everything, including Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. You might think otherwise, but maybe you do not know the entire history. Unfortunately, Israel is very able to defend itself militarily, but not adept at defending itself from antisemitism, which is what fuels the rage.
🎱, this is one of many opinions, less than one minute long.
I must have hit the wrong button, sorry.
https://securingamerica.substack.com/p/dont-give-iran-more-time-to-rearm?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-1265c988-1ec4-4e89-b40f-ee7e49ea5ac9
Did you support O-dumbers war in Libya?
He alone, turned that country into a (black) slave trade country. Yeah, a Black American Prez did that.
Where’s his Bronze Star? Where’s his Purple Heart? Sure, he has a combat action ribbon, but he’s no Audie Murphy.
USF let them elect that nut job, he will be another fizzle in the pan Democrat. He will end up like Swalwell or any other number of them. Mired in scandal, kicked out of Office, under federal indictment or worse. If half of what has been reported is true, he won’t last long, he’s a Sociopath.
Pope Leo XIV baffled event-promotion experts on Sunday by somehow drawing a crowd of 1.2 million people in Madrid without hosting a UFC fight.
By attracting a seven-figure audience with nothing but a message of humanity and hope, the Pope bucked the conventional wisdom that people will only turn out in large numbers to see men on steroids kick each other in the face.
At the White House, Donald J. Trump reportedly “exploded with rage” at news of the pontiff’s crowd but later expressed nonchalance during an Oval Office briefing.
“Crowd size doesn’t matter,” Trump told reporters. “What matters is how long your reflecting pool is.”
I don’t think this ever gets better until moderates and independents recognize that this is not abnormal. It’s D and left-wing policy and tactics. They literally are the fascists, using whatever negative terms you may wish to define it – Marxist, totalitarian, evil – it’s important to recognize it. These are liars, criminals and generally bad people.
If the guy revealed that he had horns growing on his head the Democrats in Maine would still vote for him.
If his long red pointy tall fell from the backside of his pants Elizabeth Warren and Chuckie Schumer would still endorse him.
His tattoo supported the ideas of Adolph Hitler but those who tell us that Trump is Hitler will vote for a man who wore Hitler’s
plans right on his chest. Absolute power and the desire for it corrupts absolutely.
If he should win we will know exactly what the Democratic Party stands for.
TiT,
Mind boggling is it not?
Bill Maher has noted more than a few times of how the far leftist ideology is toxic to the Democrat party as a whole.
Then you have Democrats endorsing this guy? After touting the #metoo movement, the “toxic masculinity!” infecting society, and they are backing this guy? Really?
From a constitutional point of view, the American model of government presumes “innocent until proven guilty”. The burden of proof is not placed on the “accused” (suspect), but the burden on the “accuser” (prosecutor or plaintiff).
There are mitigating circumstances like a minor under the control of adults (Epstein cases). The crime victim may be in a situation where they fear harm for reporting the crime and they may not be of adult age within the statute of limitations. Or an adult that would suffer severe harm in their current job.
Under both those mitigating circumstances, the crime victim would be expected to report the crime to police and prosecutors once out of that dangerous situation.
What doesn’t seem constitutional, is for an alleged crime victim to file the police report 30 years later against a billionaire or famous person. Even though they were outside the dangerous situation (mitigating circumstances) maybe 29 years ago. It doesn’t discredit the crime victim but raises legitimate questions about why they waited so long.
Grave mistakes and injustices many times happen to the “accused” when denied speedy due process in court. Witnesses forget material details, witnesses die, electronic cell phone records no longer exist, etc. So the accused is denied a fair trial.
Most of these injustices actually harm poor people and African-Americans. Unscrupulous prosecutors may simply wait for evidence to be destroyed or for witnesses to die, to then game the justice system to their advantage (skipping the constitutional mandate of a speedy trial where the accused can confront their accusers).
The GOP should make a tape of the many Dems and leading women’s groups in which the insist that women must , MUST, be believed when they claim sexual assault or similar allegations, whether corroborated or not.
Back in the day we called this hypocrisy being demonstrated in the Platner case as situational ethics.
Absolutely true
I think that accusing Democrats/collectivists of lying or holding double standards is pointless. They don’t view their words in those terms, at least not properly.
To that low specie of creature there is no absolute truth, there is only intent. Words are a tool to achieve an end and if the words, regardless of their literal meaning, are true to that intent then they are not a lie. They do not think about it in those terms, they feel it so deeply that it is real for them.
That is just my psychological theory of how their minds work but it does explain how “believe all women” can peacefully coexist with support of a piece of work like Graham Platner.
Normal, moral human beings understand how difficult it is to know what is true and still try to work towards getting as close as they can. Scientific advancement is evidence for this but look at how “science” was corrupted during the scamdemic. Two entirely different world views.
I don’t see how this incompatibility ends well.
“I haven’t followed these allegations closely, but what I have said is that violence against women in any way, shape or form is unacceptable,”
— Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), 7 June 2026
But apparently not disqualifying.
Eunuchs
A SCOTUS of 9 Eunuchs Male and Female is totally achievable in this modern day.
Current surgical procedures would insure clean non-brutal removal of organs and produce the desired results for the likes of:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Christine Blasey Ford
Kathleen Turner
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
Lyndsey Fifield
Krystal Ball
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)
…
If that’s what They want, then give’em what they want. Why stop at the Bris (brit milah) Circumcision, chop it all off (emasculation) and put them on the Bench or Office.
That day is not that far away. Hurray for the Democratic Party, You Go
GurlEunuch!Eunuch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch
The Pain of Castration and Their Tragic Fate
With the slight possibility that Fetterman isn’t totally awful, I can’t think of a single Democrat politician who isn’t power hungry evil scum. Never in my long life have a felt such unease about the Democrats.
Fetterman vows to ditch hoodie for suit if Graham Platner proves he didn’t send ‘d–k pics’ to minors
https://nypost.com/2026/06/06/us-news/fetterman-vows-to-ditch-hoodie-for-suit-if-graham-platner-proves-he-didnt-send-d-k-pics-to-minors/
Does Carhartt even make a suit?
democrats are fighting to destroy western civilization!
They don’t want good or to fix things
Think mass brainwashing.
Peter Theil 1996 https://www.reddit.com/r/PLTR/comments/x3d75o/in_1996_paypal_founder_a_young_peter_thiel/
I thought it was the incompetent, corrupt American President and the remnants of MAGA who are a threat to world order.
That was Joe Biden and far leftists who a threat to America and the Constitution.
The corruption of the Democrat Party knows no bounds. This happens when they are confident that they will not be held accountable. It is truly frightening to see what has become of one of the 2 major political parties that govern this country.
It’s worth repeating (again)… if not for double-standards, today’s Democrats wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Works both ways, JAFO. We could say, “If not for double standards, today’s [Republicans] wouldn’t have any standards at all.”
@Anonymous
No, it really doesn’t. It’s just dems and their allies. Not conservatives, libertarians, or the unaffiliated. Just dems. Unequivocally. Period. This is crystal clear in 2026, and it is true of the now globalist left across the entire planet.
That was me, typo in email. And I agree with others, Fetterman is literally the sole holdout.
Ford remained at the scene of the crime long after she was attacked and free to leave. Why didn’t she get the hell away from her attackers when she had the chance?