Below is my column on Fox.com about Graham Platner’s withdrawal and the start of post-Platner politics in the Democratic Party.
Here is the column:
This week, Democrats are fighting to keep Maine after shedding their morals.
The controversy in Maine over Graham Platner was a modern remake of the scene from “A Man for All Seasons” in which Sir Thomas More confronts Richard Rich, a former protege who lied in court to secure his conviction 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!”
For Democrats, they might not even have Wales to show for their “profit.”
Platner withdrew from the race Wednesday night. Even with that decision, Democratic politicians will be wearing the mark of Platner for the rest of their careers after dismissing earlier allegations in their quest to take back power.
Of course, a Platner withdrawal from the Senate race could well prove an upgrade. After all, it is hard not to improve on an alleged Nazi-tattooed, Hamas-praising, veteran-bashing, sex-texting, Communism-embracing accused rapist. However, politicians such as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ro Khanna, and others will long wallow in a post-Platner party.
These Democrats led the mob against now Justice Bret Kavanaugh, insisting that women had to be believed. Whitehouse said he is “unimpressed” by the allegations from multiple women as “a lot of nothing.” He also reminded voters that one of the alleged victims is a Republican.
Warren was equally undeterred, bouncing on the stage with Platner while proclaiming that he was “My kind of man.” It did not matter that he was accused of rape and other abuse. He would deliver a major committee chair for Warren if they retook power.
As with Swalwell, the establishment moved to destroy Platner only after polls showed him unlikely to beat Sen. Susan Collins. Suddenly, the same pattern emerged. CNN and the Washington Post suddenly ran stories of new allegations just days before the deadline for Platner to voluntarily withdraw. The same candidates and media that downplayed the allegations earlier suddenly became a convention of Claude Rains in claiming to be “shocked, shocked” that yet another woman was raising the same allegations.
For Whitehouse, the new woman had the benefit of being liberal since apparently the alleged rape of Republican women was “seemed like a lot of nothing.”
The media also pushed back that there was no reason for them to have believed the earlier women before the polling changed.
Bulwark’s Michelle Goldberg at least acknowledged her role in the early press pump for Platner while calling for his withdrawal. Gone now is her gushing account in the New York Times of how he proved “nothing like the edgelord caricature I encountered online.” She added, “Platner is magnetic. Like Obama, he seems to promise a politics that is fundamentally progressive while going beyond debased partisan sniping.”
The Maine Democratic Party has announced that it will choose his replacement. After an anti-establishment election in which Platner won by 72 percent and crushed the sitting governor in fundraising, the Democratic Party announced that “We have repeatedly reiterated to Graham Platner’s team that they have no role in determining our next Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate.”
For many, it sounds like a Kamala Harris redux by the Democratic establishment, though they will hold a “convention” of 600 people to make the selection. The rhetoric could backfire.
The irony is that these politicians are drawing distinctions that would have been unthinkable just months ago. Ro Khanna insisted, after withdrawing his support and appearing at a rally for Platner, “I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line.”
The problem is that women had previously accused him of such violence, but Khanna endorsed him anyway. The goalpost moved higher and higher for women, where rape (involving a liberal woman) was now the red line for Democratic politicians.
The actual red line appeared to be polling that showed that Platner could not deliver his side of the Faustian bargain. He could not deliver Maine. Suddenly, again, women had to be believed and the party had to choose his replacement.
The greatest irony would be Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who attracted national attention by pushing an unconstitutional effort to block Trump from the presidential ballot. Her disregard for constitutional values would be highly appealing to many in the party who want to take over the Supreme Court by packing it with an instant liberal majority.
Bellows previously campaigned on her unconstitutional actions as the ultimate “win-by-any-means” Democrat. After being roundly defeated in a run for governor (garnering only 20 percent of the vote), she could now run in the general without having run a true primary campaign.
Of course, Bellows also campaigned with Platner despite the earlier allegations but insisted that he should step aside for her.
It is all part of achieving real power. Just ask Richard Rich. Of course, it may profit these politicians nothing to give their souls for the whole world, but they may not even get Maine in the bargain.
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.”
A Texas bakery ripped into MAGA in a now-viral post that caught the country’s attention, according to reports Thursday.
Hive Bakery in Flower Mound wrote in a Facebook post that it was “not wanting to celebrate the 4th this year,” USA Today reported. The award-winning bakery — and two-time Food Network Champion — said: “We’re embarrassed, afraid, and disappointed in what this country has become.”
“MAGA is adversarial,” the bakery wrote. “Those conservatives who still have rational thought have left the MAGA movement. Those who remain and continue to support the most corrupt administration in our nation’s history are here, wishing for our bakery to burn to the ground.”
The bakery created “Distress Sugar Cookies” featuring the upside-down American flag and the words “Under Distress.” The sweets, along with other confections and merchandise, sold out online.
“We’ve been SLAMMED today and baking all afternoon to accommodate the demand. Thanks so much, guys!!!” the bakery posted on July 8.
In a new Instagram video posted July 8 titled ‘Rage Baiting the Rage Baiters,’ owner Hailey Popp revealed some of the reactions and phone calls she has received from MAGA critics since taking her firm stance.
“Oh, we’re going to go down hard,” Popp told one person complaining. “No, we’re not, we have a line out the door.”
“No, we love America, that’s why we fight for it,” Popp said on one call. “We hate Donald Trump and the entire administration; it’s a fascist regime, and they’re holding us all back.”
“You know that you voted for a Republican, you know that he’s a convicted felon?” Popp asked, teasing another caller.
Thank you for fueling the fire and firing up the base, the swing voters, other broad coalitions, and non-voters; midterms, here we come.
Let’s have a “BAKE SALE!”
Thank you for fueling the fire and firing up the base, the swing voters, other broad coalitions, and non-voters; midterms, here we come.
“Food Network star Haley Popp under fire for offering Tim Walz-branded cookies at Texas bakery”
– NY Post
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Haley Popp, what’s your secret?
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Do you think it is news that there are some left wing nuts in Texas ?
If you do not wish to celebrate the 250th birthday of the country – that is YOUR problem.
Whether you have problems with Trump or Platner or anything else – July 4th 2026 was the 250th birthday of the country.
GET OVER IT. Trump is neither god nor Satan. Whoever is president will make the 4th about them – as will Every other US politician regardless of party.
SO WHAT ?
The country is doing fine – better than fine.
Absolutely on whatever criteria you think is important – we could be better. We could also be worse. And in the past we have been.
While there are differences in how much better we are doing based on which party is in power – the FACT is that – no matter who is in power – the country is ALWAYS doing better than it was a decade ago. 50 years ago, 250 years ago.
If you can not be proud of that, if you can not celebrate that – then please GO SOMEWHERE ELSE – something you think you will be happier.
If you think somewhere else is better – go if they will take you.
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Thje bakery is free to publicly or privately espouse whatever views it wishes.
Any bussiness can show its support for Pedophiles if it wishes – this is American and except under democrat presidents you are free to hold whatever views you wish.
And the rest of us are free to tell you to “go F#$K yourself” – that is what free speech means.
Regardless anyone opposed to corruption and concurrently supporting Tim Walz is brain dead and their opinons aren’t worth squat.
But if you desparately want to support them – Please go ahead.
As to your claims that the bakery is doing well in TX – first I do not actually beleive you, It is not like anonymous left wing nut posters have any credibility.
But if that is true – so be it.
Even in Manhattan any business jumping into politics on the left – has alienated 30% of its customers.
I have multiple businesses – I post on the internet under the John B Say Psuedonum – for Jean Batiste Say of “Says law” otherwise known as the law of supply and demand.
I do so because I keep politics out of all my businesses. If you were an employee and you were on my time advocating for MY politics – to clients or other employees – you are going to get FIRED – Most of my employees share my ideology, most of my clients do – but politics has nothing to do with my business. It does not effect my hiring, it does not effect my marketing, and I do not want it to effect who hires me.
YOU are free to run your businesses otherwise.
How well has that worked for Anheiser Bush, John Deere, Harley Davidson, Disney and myriads of otehrs who have lost signifgcan revenue and significant market share by cuddling up to the left.
I some bakery in TX wishes to jump into politics – especially on the left – that is not likely to end well – but they are free to try.
While I highly doubt it is working out even in the short run as you claim, still in the REAL WORLD people are looking for reasons to say NO.
Do you want to eat at McD’s BK, Hardies, Wendy’s, ….. Tiny things can push you to make a different choice. Brand loyalty is mostly a thing of the past.
You can make a controversial appeal and get an inrush of supporters MAYBE, Briefly, But that never lasts, and what you are left with is people who quietly go elsewhere.
There is no shortage of baked goods today. There is no shortage of Incredible baked goods.
Regardless you say that this bakery “ripped” on MAGA – even in Manhattan that could be 30% of your customers quietly gone.
In TX that could be more than half.
On the rare instances I get a client that tries to push left wing nut politics – and that is INCREDIBLY RARE – I politely try to find some common ground, and otherwise quietly leave them with the impression I share their views. For more often I get clients who talk about conservative politics – I am a small business, nearly all my clients are small businesses, Small businesses either are conservative – or become conservative over time.
Even so I am STILL very careful about discussing politics with clients.
You can do the best job in the world, and still lose a client over very small things. I try very hard to never let politics cost me a client.
There are very few places where politics can boost business.
Did Barack “The Ineligible” Obama mean,
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”
into
“The United Islamic States of Americaistan?”
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
– Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
“From your lips to God’s ears.”
– Yiddish Idiom
It’s already happened in the UK and irreversible short of a new Oliver Cromwell.
*. PT mentions morals or alludes to democrats lacking morals. No more so than Repubs do they lack morals. This is a second rate world when exposed or in some cases 3rd rate.
Talk about amendments or speech or the partisan issue of rape and nazi tattoos is irrelevant at this point. Contemplate vice and in each problem vices are identified.
SCOTUS just betrayed the Constitution, history and tradition and American citizens and ancestors not here to defend themselves and we contemplate a low life rapist today?
Censor ? Laughable
This ‘Anonymous’ reads like a foreigner struggling to make a not-so-clear point.
And u read like a pos
Is that you, Kamalala?
Didn’t read today’s piece other than the headline–here is a perfect example of Turley-gone-MAGA. Democrats believed the women and pressured Platner to give up. Republicans attacked Dr. Ford who testified against Kavanaugh, they attacked Stormy Daniels and Karen MacDougall, and had little to say about the “grab them by the puxxy” line. Republicans elected an adjudicated sexual assaulter, someone who brags about grabbing women by their genitals, who cavorts with a porn actress and nude models, who has cheated on all 3 of his baby mamas, who is a chronic, habitual liar, and who exists to feed his ego. He was besties with one of the worst child sex predators in recent history, and there is allegedly credible evidence that he sexually assaulted an underage girl. Despite promising to release the Epstein files and despite a federal law requiring release of the files, he refuses to do so. They ignore the shenanigans of Ken Paxton, Texas AG, a die hard MAGA practitioner who is running against Talarico for Texas Senate. Paxton celebrated July 4 running around London with his mistress. He would not even allow an abortion to save a woman’s life.
In his next life he’ll die in child birth
So is this all the justification you need to vote for your oyster furher? It’s a free country (despite your efforts).
The Democrats are worse invalids, drunks, and demagogues than Karl Marx ever was.
Those pols have no shame. There will be no consequences to them as the American voters collective memory will be wiped clean by next week. Sad, because they need to be thrown out of office and the Dems go down to a momentous defeat this fall so they will move back to the center.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA you literally support an adjudicated rapist AND an individual mentioned more frequently than anyone else in the Epstein files as President of the United States. An individual who has LITERALLY cheated on every one of his three wives. But yes PLEASE go on about a non-elected democratic CANDIDATE. My GOD, I love watching your hypocrisy knowing that you get to look yourself in the mirror every night and cringe. But keep carrying that water for your orange god-king, my dude. HAHAHAHAHAHA
JFK
This part of Alford’s story doesn’t really add anything to what we already know about Kennedy. Nor does it really change my opinion of the 35th president. But this part does:
Dave Powers was sitting poolside while the President and I swam lazy circles around each other, splashing playfully. Dave had removed his jacket and loosened his tie in the warm air of the pool, but he was otherwise fully clothed. He was sitting on a towel, with his pants leg rolled up, and his bare feet dangling in the water.
The President swam over and whispered in my ear. “Mr. Powers looks a little tense,” he said. “Would you take care of it?”
It was a dare, but I knew exactly what he meant. This was a challenge to give Dave Powers oral sex. I don’t think the President thought I’d do it, but I’m ashamed to say that I did. It was a pathetic, sordid, scene, and is very hard for me to think about today. Dave was jolly and obedient as I stood in the shallow end of the pool and performed my duties. The President silently watched.
Afterwards, Alford says she was “deeply embarrassed,” and as she climbed out of the pool she “could hear Dave speak in as stern a tone as I ever heard him use with his boss. ‘You shouldn’t have made her do that,’ Dave said. ‘I know, I know,’ I heard the President say. Later, a chastened President Kennedy apologized to us both.” Alford believes that Kennedy showed “his darker side … when we were among men he knew. That’s when he felt a need to display his power over me.” Kennedy didn’t just have a thing for Social Register girls; he had a thing for humiliating Social Register girls. He also had a thing for humiliating his fellow Irishman, Dave Powers.
You luv the sleaze. You repeat it over and over wishing..
Bill Clinton as enabled by Hillary Clinton
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1. Eileen Wellstone (1969) Allegation: Sexual assault
2. Anonymous female student at Yale University (1972) Allegation: Sexual assault
3. Anonymous female student at the University of Arkansas (1974) Allegation: Sexual assault
4. Anonymous female lawyer (1977) Allegation: Sexual assault
5. Juanita Broaddrick (1978) Allegation: Rape
6. Carolyn Moffet (1979) Allegation: Sexual assault
7. Elizabeth Ward (1983) Allegation: Unclear
8. Sally Perdue (1983) Allegation: Unclear
9. Paula Jones (1991) Allegation: Sexual harassment
10. Sandra Allen James (1991) Allegation: Sexual assault
11. Christy Zercher (1992) Allegation: Sexual assault
12. Kathleen Willey (1993) Allegation: Sexual assault
And democrat apologists still insist that Bill Clinton left Oxford early for legitimate reasons – who leaves Oxford early?
alleged, anonymous, unclear. Trump was TRIED in a jury trial, and LOST. He was found liable for falsifying business records to cover up payoffs to Stormy Daniels, a porn actress. Trump publicly and brazenly brags about grabbing womens’ genitals. No comparison whatsoever. Clinton was a good President. Trump is literally the worst in US history.
Clinton gave us 9/11 and herpes
haha you have narcissistic TDS, haha
“THIRTY-ONE YEARS LATER”
A corrupt liberal jury in a corrupt liberal court in a corrupt liberal judicial branch in a corrupt liberal district in a corrupt liberal state, all of which act to simply serve up liberal charity.
No, Obama gets the award worldwide. It’s taken.
If the American Founders could take their colonies back from the British Empire,
Why can’t actual Americans take their country back from the anti-American foreign invader communists?
Americans DIDN’T ‘take their colonies back from the British Empire’. The British founded those colonies. Apparently the writer here never opened a history book.
The American Founders were British colonists.
As fate would have it, those colonies were theirs de facto.
Nothing says communism like creating state-controlled gas stations with fixed pricing. HAHAHAHAHA – you guys are amazing.
The Freedom Fuel Network is a legal, privately funded group of 25 local gas stations selling gas at $3.47 to support Donald Trump. Because it is registered as an anonymous Delaware LLC, its financial backers are publicly unknown, though experts believe pro-Trump groups are funding the price discounts. While critics attack the White House’s promotion of the brand as a political PR stunt, no laws have been broken, and there is no evidence Donald Trump owns or operates it.
– Gemini
Do you mean the welfare tourists? I’m all for giving them 30 days to vacate befiore the hangings start.
Old fish, there’s really nothing anyone can do. Just adjust and move on. If disease doesn’t get the place there’ll be 1 billion people in North America in 150 years.
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A coalition of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, operating under CENTCOM, forms a regional superpower that technologically outmatches Iran through superior air power, advanced armor, and a combined force of nearly 1 million personnel including Israeli reserves. This alliance holds overwhelming superiority in the air with over 800 modern combat jets against Iran’s roughly 200 older aircraft, alongside a modernized tank fleet (Merkava IVs, M1A2 Abrams) that outclasses Iranian armor.
My one question is why does Iran still have 200 combat jets? Come on Trump, Hegseth and Cain, finish them off already.
Trump is too much of a coward to do what needs to be done. Iran needs to be wiped off the map. Trump is all bark and no bite. What a coward. He doesn’t even know what MAGA means anymore. I think Hegseth would do it but Trump’s too chicken to let him off the leash.
Probably hoping to put this immediately post-midterms.
Trump, believe it or not, is smarter than you and he has more advisers than you. Waiting them out is preventing humans dying. The clock is ticking on a now-weakened Iran and they are getting desperate. That’s the kind of human Trump is, he just wants people to stop dying.
“Older aircraft” means ephemeral sitting-duck practice targets. Not to worry.
They won’t after tonight 💀
That ‘superpower’ hasn’t crushed Iran. How come? Aside from Israel, none of those countries has any experience fighting wars.
The Ladies Auxiliary of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club could eradicate Iran with American and Israeli air and ground support and the subversive espionage and clandestine operations of the Great Persian People.
Out of compassion for the Iranian people, the ones that these Mullahs have been killing for decades.
At least he wasn’t a lawyer!
apbd
Nazi-tattooed, Hamas-praising, veteran-bashing, sex-texting, Communism-embracing accused rapist? Are you still a Democrat professor?
I think Turley got those talking points directly from Jake Tapper, MS Now and the DSCC.
You are right! those are qualities only a democrat could love!
Michelle Goldberg deserve that Hamas treatment>> She is evil. Period She would have swooned over Hitler if it suited her politics
Alank is Estovir with more Nazi references. It’s an addiction for him.
OMG! Alan k goes way, way back.
I am not the one who wore a totenkopf tattoo and I am not a progressive Jew like Goldberg who prefers Platner to Cotton. She is a modern day quisling
I think the country was safer with the Organized Crime Democrats than the Evil Progressive Democrats.
This lot would nominate a Charley Manson clone if they thought he would get the votes.
“Democratic politicians will be wearing the mark of Platner for the rest of their careers after dismissing earlier allegations in their quest to take back power.”
It would please me to believe that, but the idiots who vote Democratic obviously have ephemeral memories. I very much doubt that many, if any, of the despicable Platner supporters will pay any price at all within their own party for providing that support. Maybe if that support can be shown to lead directly to significant 2026 mid-term losses for Democrats something of that sort might happen afterwards, but I am not even convinced of that.
This is not about Platner – this is about democrat leadership.
This is no different from Biden,
Platner’s issues were known in advance.
The pressure on Platner to resign is REACTIVE – it is because the more voters learned the more likely he was to lose.
The supposedly most recent allegation is NOT new – When NYT rant the earlier piece focused on a republican woman who was assaulted and kidnapped,
This women and other Platner victims were available to NYT.
But apparently you can sexually assault and kidnap republican women – but not democrats.
The allegations against Platner are credible, and most of them are recent. This is not a 30 year old vague claim of unclear conduct such as against Trump and Kavanaugh.
These are very specific claims of rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, and other abuse of women, within the past decade – some within the last few years.
They are prosecutable – so why weren’t they prosecuted ?
And why the effort to bury or minimize them until now ?
Because before Platner might have defeated Collins, more recently he started falling behind.
Democrats demanded Platner quit because he was going to lose, not because he is a rapist.
They tried to bury the truth about him – so long as he was likely to win.
John Say is exactly right.
Platner was pushed out because he was going to lose, NOT because he is a rapist.
On our Republican side, we only run candidates who can win.
We don’t care if they are rapists or serial abusers of women, or pedophiles.
All we care about is whether a candidate can win.
So what if they are criminals, shysters, con-men, rapists or pedophiles.
Who cares ????
All that matters is whether they can win !!!!
John
What gets me. Platner was in the USMC.
And served in Arab countries. Have you seen anyone from the Marines come out and support him?
I sure haven’t seen anything.
Platner’s anti-war stance is rooted in his combat veteran experience. He emphasized that “it is the American people who are asked to make the sacrifice”, not those in power or wealthy elites. He tied the current Middle East conflict to other unpopular wars he fought in, warning that such wars cause long-term trauma for servicemembers and their families
*almost every veteran I know, including me, would agree with that.
Isn’t that the way it has ALWAYS been? Were you forced to serve through the draft or did you enlist of your own free will. Wars have NEVER been fought by the politicians, during the Revolutionary War the British were appalled that their officers were being targeted. Gentlemen’s war of the time only killed the enlisted men, WWI if you lingered in the trenches too long or retreated due to overwhelming fire, an Officer shot you.
Wait, so you mean now that I am enlisted, I might be expected to act as one of those soldiers I saw in old movies? How does a guy get out of this chicken outfit??? I could get killed!! Now I’m mad at the ‘elites’!
So DG you admit that Planter has no real friends.
Any of us who has lived thur war will find good friends. Yet Mr Planter appears at have none.
Do you think the Americans who served in Nam liked it?
Quite a leap Dg. And a poor one at that.
DustOff,
I do find it interesting we have yet to see any one who served with him give an interview showing him in a either positive or negative light.
Also, wouldnt he disclose his fitness reports? Or his “I love me,” file (file with all awards, promotions, letters of commendation, fit reps, etc.)?
I still have mine.
Planter’s DD-214 might be a interesting read.
Marines are known for their brother hood. So what happened?
Opps, I thought this included Eric Swalwell and Nancy Pelosi’s political machines.
Dear Mr. Turley, thank you for the great article..again! Watching Graham Platner from my home in Wisconsin, I wondered how the Democrats were going to spin this guy. I am not sure why a woman, who is a conservative, and her horrific story of sexual assault by Mr. Platner was LESS important than a woman who is liberal and had the same story. This is a classic example of Democrats “looking the other way” as they were so sure he would beat Sen. Collins. Sen. Warren said,” He’s my type of guy.” This was after we learned of his cheating on his wife. Well, Sen. Warren, he may very well be sitting on your doorstep, once Mrs. Platner shows him the door. I hope Mrs. Platner does and locks the door behind him. He can go back to his hobby of oyster farming and keep on supplying his mother’s restaurant with his oysters.
I would rather that Platner had stayed in the race, to be soundly defeated in the general election.
Instead, Maine’s voters, -already having made Platner their primary winner without really taking the time to vet him, may repeat their mistake with Bellows or some other far-left candidate, for which they may rue the day (but for different reasons). (I say far-left in defiance of MSM, which repeatedly refers to anyone right of center as “far-right.”)
I also note that the good professor has cleverly published two related posts this morning, one highlighting the story of Saturn and self-inflicted mortality; the other serving as punctuation for the former.
Lin,
Watching how the Democrat party selects the new candidate is what I am finding interesting.
I do not think Platner stood a chance of winning – even absent the allegations that caused him to withdrawl.
Main is a purple state, not a blue one.
Many in MAGA are not happy with Collins – but her politics are actually what Maine voters want.
They do not want Trump or Ted Cruz – nor do they want the DSA or Sanders,
Platner was not what Maine voters wanted – even if he was not a rapist, pedo Nazi.
The more voters learned his politics the more thay were going to reject him.
In Collins last 3 Main elections she was 12 pts, 9 pts and 6 pts behind in early July.
The more people learn about democrats and their policies – the less likely they are to vote for them.
Maybe that’s why the dems are so vague about their schemes for America. The truth would not be helpful.
Believe all women!
But the guy with the Nazi tattoo is leading in the polls.
That woman cannot be believed!
He is trailing in the polls and there is another accuser, this time a liberal, and she has evidence.
Believe all women!
UF – This women is NOT new. She was provided as corroboration for the original NYT story – the NYT failed to contact her and then subtly undermined the focus of the first story.
This woman has evidence – just like the featured woman in the NYT story and ALL the other corrobating victims that NYT did not bother to interview in the original story.
I am not a big fan of Politico – but they get Kudos here – All they did was the leg work to take the published information from the original NYT story and contact some of Platner’s other victims.
Sheldon Whitehouse continues to be clown himself. A new explitive is needed to describe his behavior.
Blue Maga wants Sen. Collins to win. .. Blue Maga is why Trump won.
I’ve read the accusations against Platner, who won with 72% of the vote. A record in Maine. Not sure he should drop out.. . Blue Maga should drop out.
*Trump said he could “shoot someone on 5th ave.” and still get elected.
Platner won 72% of the PRIMARY vote in a primary where the other leading candidate had dropped out.
Voters – including Democrats are free to want Collins as their senator.
Voters – including Democrats are free to want Trump as their president.
In MOST elections the winning candidate must erode the support of the losing candidate and get some voters to cross the aisles – nothing new.
With regard to the allegations against Platner – the real question is why there have been no criminal prosecutions ?
These allegations are 10,000 times more credible than those against Trump.
These are by a number of women, They are similar in nature, they are specific, they are relatively recent and they have significant corroborating evidence from the time – texts, emails and other records confirming details of the allegations.
Platner should be prosecuted. These women should be suing both Platner and the DNC for defamation. They have a 10,000 times better a case than E Jean Carrol.
Platner was “swallwelled”.
No chit, Cesar.
Trump SAID.
Platner DID.
Quite the difference.
Reading the latest accusations against Platner, I’m not sure, exactly, what he “did”. .. and neither do you.
Seems a stretch thinking, to yourself, your boyfriend is raping you when you only wanted a foot massage.. . in retrospect, they say ‘timing’ is everything in love, war and politics.
As I understand it, Platner is not very wealthy. Trump Himself SAID “when you’re rich and famous you can do anything” – “grab ’em by the Pu**y”. .. I’m sure Trump’s old pal Epstein would agree.
Clearly, Platner did not pass the DNCC big wigs purity or loyalty test, and wanted him gone.
In any case, I would rather Platner had stayed in the race Worts and all .. . I think he would have beaten 7-term eternal Sen. Collins who has been instrumental sending him to the wars where he got PTSD. Poetic justice.
*expect the Blue maga big wigs will pick another coconut out of Kamala’s coconut tree.
“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.’”
Believe all women . . . or no if he is a Democrat, right?
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/06/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737
Just write in your nazi, we know you want to.
How many people did Trump actually shoot on Fifth Avenue? I don’t seem to remember the exact body count.
Idk the body count on 5th Ave. I suspect it was another famous Trump figure of speech.. . much of what Trump says is a figure of speech.
Trump did ‘obliterate’ 138 school girls in Minab, Iran on Feb. 28. .. there’s an exact body count.
*how’s that war working out for you?
“*how’s that war working out for you?”
weren’t you the one who was advertising yourself on this blog for something you were running for?
how’d that work out for you?
**All those Islamic terrorists that die for Allah gotta have a stock of virgins available, Trump delivers!
How many Marines died in that Lebanon barracks bombing?