cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/62988948
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.’”
Most rapes go unreported and even when they do authorities don’t follow through or simply don’t believe the victim.
So that makes it okay to bring it up years later when it’s politically convenient for people supporting an actual known, documented pedophile? No double standards here.
Both are bad. It doesn’t matter when an assault is revealed but whether it is credible, and the consensus is that it is.
And how are you any different from the people supporting Trump? You’re as willing to downplay your guy’s sexual predation as they are theirs?
I dunno man. Does rape sound like the kind of thing a war criminal would do?
I’ll take my answer off the air.
Why are there two standards? One for Democrats, one for Republicans. Paxton got caught IRL with a new mistress. But somehow that’s less significant than an incident that happened years ago that’s pretty sketchy in both circumstance and timing. I’m not overlooking or excusing anything he’s done but how does that inform on how he’d do his job? This is bullshit and this is how the billionaires win.
There’s a world of difference between SA and having a mistress. Either way, there aren’t “two standards,” the standard should be to not be a sex offender like Platner.
Yes, that’s my point, you’re not different to Trump supporters.
You very obviously are
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Yeah man, I’m being paid to disagree with you online, you narcissistic dumbass
You’re working hard in these comments to break down any standards the left had.