Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is demanding that leftists be held accountable for supporting Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.
Yet another horrific scandal is tearing through the Platner campaign, with Politico dropping an interview with a woman named Jenny Racicot on Monday. The Maine resident, a 41-year-old woman, says she dated the candidate and claims he sexually assaulted her. Platner denies any allegations of non-consensual activity, but Racicot provided documents to the outlet 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.”
Now, Fetterman wants the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the Pod Save America hosts to apologize for their backing of the candidate. Speaking to Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle host Laura Ingraham on Monday, the senator lauded Racicot as “brave” for coming forward with her story.
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“Your party was willing — your party leaders, not you — was willing to look past all of these other allegations against him, from the other woman who said he grabbed her, to the tattoo, the Nazi tattoo, to all the other Reddit posts that had been dug up. So they were willing to overlook all of that because he was their star,” Ingraham explained to Fetterman.
“Yeah. I refuse to overlook that,” he said bluntly. “But honestly, I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize for pushing this kind of predator more than anyone; he helped him elect. Now apologize to the victims, especially the woman that she claimed that he raped her.”
“So I don’t know why you want to keep pushing these kinds of people. Maybe he should consider [sitting] a few out, and stop pushing these communists and people like ‘P Hustle,’ now he’s been credibly accused of rape. And that’s fairly recent, too. That was less than five years ago,” Fetterman added.
From Politico’s bombshell interview:
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.’”
Platner denied the allegations.
ADVERTISEMENT“These allegations are troubling, serious, and false. Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue,” he said in a statement.
It remains to be seen whether this will be what finally pushes Platner out of the race, or if Democrats will continue to support him.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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