Democrat Media Goes Full Throttle to Protect Nazi-Tattooed Woman Abuser Platner

Embattled Democratic Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner admitted Thursday to sexting other women shortly after marrying his wife, after new allegations dropped exposing Platner’s abuse towards women.

Platner, who is running to unseat Maine’s longtime Republican incumbent RINO Siusan Collins found himself embroiled in yet another scandal ahead of the interview, after detailed accounts from his ex-girlfriends, who recalled his alleged abusive behavior and a hatred of women.

His exes described Platner as someone who “hated women,” “does not respect women,” and would refer to them as “hatchet wounds.”

One woman, Lyndsey Fifield, alleged that Platner once twisted her during an argument and shoved her in a bedroom, refusing to let her out until she was “calm.”

She also claimed Platner would routinely grab her by the shoulders, sometimes hard enough to leave marks, and one time forced her out of a cab she did not want to exit by yanking her wrist.

Fifield, who dated Platner from 2013 to 2015, further remembered him boasting about having a Nazi tattoo and calling it “my Totenkopf” – which contradicts the Democratic candidate’s claim that he only realized he had the Nazi SS death squad symbol on his chest last fall.   (NY Post)

NEW from @dailycaller on the NYT’s catch and kill operation:

– A source tells @wupton that the NYT had two women prepared to make sexual assault allegations against Platner.
– Those details were revealed to Fifield, presumably to make her feel more comfortable coming forward… pic.twitter.com/buC8wN5u0i

— Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) June 4, 2026

”New York Times cover-up:

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 and only share this story with them.

But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

The stunning admission from one of Platner’s victims.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely – he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/2062700596205904148?s=20

CNN’s Bash Does Segment Protecting Platner, Hannity Talks Porta Potty Sex and Nazi Tattoo

By: Steve Malzberg, Newsbustes, June 3rd, 2026:

The Democrat Senate Primary in Maine is next Tuesday, and the presumptive nominee Graham Platner is facing a new revelation of sexting with woman outside his marriage, to go along with several previously reported Reddit posts where he referred to himself as a “communist,” called “all” police officers “bastards” and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, and then there is his Nazi tattoo.

But if you were watching CNN’s Inside Politics Tuesday, Host Dana Bash’s segment on Platner covered almost all of this up, even though it was CNN’s KFILE who broke the story on Reddit posts last October.

Bash headed into a break, teasing the segment with, “We have new details on Graham Platner meeting today here in Washington with Senate Democrats as another revelation rattles his race to flip a GOP seat.” Nice tease,but there would be barley a mention of that new revelation.

Bash began the segment by disclosing that Platner was headed into the meeting carrying “new political baggage,” claiming that it is “giving his party new reasons to worry.” But she made no mention of new or old reasons to worry, instead tossing to a clip from Platner supporter Bernie Sanders, who asked of Platner, “Is he a saint? I guess not. I don’t know too many saints.” She then gave the floor to Bloomberg Political Columnist Nia-Malika Henderson, who also kept quiet about any specifics.

HENDERSON: Progressive Democrats were first out of the gate in backing Platner. Now they have to hope that he is Teflon….They have to in some ways, hope that he’s like Trump, who has had many, many scandals, obviously survived the primary in 2016, in the presidency. There is probably a little bit of buyer’s remorse…. This is a bit of a mess.

What bit of a mess? Why does he need to be Teflon? She didn’t give a clue, yet she brought up Donald Trump. Next, Semafor Politics Reporter David Weigel, came the closest the segment would come to revealing anything that Platner had posted or done.

Continued……