Lyndsey Fifield has made two big mistakes in her life that she may be having second thoughts about today. Her first mistake was getting into a relationship with Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, and her second mistake was trusting The New York Times.
Meanwhile, the media in America continues to offer little to counter beliefs that it’s little more than an extension of the Democratic Party campaign apparatus.
Platner’s ex-girlfriend took to X on Friday to detail her relationship with the “narcissistic abuser,” and then offered her take on how the Times betrayed her — Fifield dated Platner between 2013 and 2015.
“Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy. I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the ‘cool girl’ or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham,” Fifield wrote. “I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.”
Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.
I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.…
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) June 5, 2026
“Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me. But of course he knew it was me,” she continued. “What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out. I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.”
Fifield explains that to her surprise, the NY Times reached out and, despite her reluctance, encouraged her to share her story to help other women. The paper even connected her to two other “victims,” she said.
“But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together,” she said. “WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.”
Writing that she “told them my story… let them take pictures of my diary pages [and] sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts,” Fifield said the process “was excruciating.”
Weeks dragged by, and she said the newspaper kept coming back for more information before realizing that when the story went to print, it was focused on her alone.
I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.
As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word…
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) June 5, 2026
“After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)? Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?” Fifield wrote.
“Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking ‘do not call Graham’ after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never). Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal? The editors said it was too much, they explained,” she continued.
And she came to realize that the betrayal gets worse, that she was “set up all along.”
“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,” Fifield said.
“It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life,” she concluded. “And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.
“Still fawning after all these years.”
Platner is a walking disaster, but Democrat voters are showing once again that there is no bar too low for them when it comes to a candidate with a D next to his name.
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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