00:00:47.000As a recall, Democrats decided they were going to nominate in Maine a man with, shall we say, a checkered past, you know, like a Nazi tattoo.
00:00:56.000And the Nazi tattoo wasn't disqualifying.
00:00:58.000Democrats were like, hey, hey, hey, that's what blue collar folk are like.
00:01:09.000You have a Nazi, like behind your ear or something, like in your ear canal, you have a Nazi tattoo.
00:01:12.000We know because you're blue collar, just like Graham Plattner.
00:01:16.000And then there were a bunch of reports about him talking about pleasuring himself in porta potties and bizarre Reddit posts and websites where he had tried to match himself up with much younger women, some of whom may or may not have been minors on the actual site.
00:01:31.000And the Democrats are like, no, no, no, that's just what normal, flawed people do.
00:01:36.000And then there was a report that came out that suggested that he had locked a former girlfriend of his, Lindsay Fifield, In a bathroom and threatened her, and used to like sharpening axes while watching TV.
00:01:47.000And the Democrats are like, no, no, no, you understand.
00:01:51.000And if we want to win the Trump voter, we need dudes, like real dudes, like Graham Plattner, like oyster farmers who are going to never shave, but also, really like J.D.O. Ted.
00:02:03.000The smell of porta patties gets them going.
00:02:28.000So there's the story you're hearing today, which is Democrats finally found their moral background, backbone.
00:02:33.000It turns out that they were fine with the Nazi tattoo.
00:02:35.000They were fine with the bizarre allegations about women and raping home invaders.
00:02:38.000They were fine with all of the bizarre statements about traveling to Thailand on the government dime.
00:02:43.000They were totally fine with him hanging out with every communist and terror supporter he could find.
00:02:47.000Like all of that was fine with Democrats, but they finally drew a line in the sand when there was a sexual assault allegation that didn't come from a Republican.
00:03:37.000She detailed the alleged incident to Politico in three interviews over the past two weeks.
00:03:41.000Politico also spoke with a man Rascott dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident and reviewed documents, including emails between Rascott and her therapist.
00:03:49.000And messages between Rascott and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
00:03:55.000Raskott said she had an on and off relationship with Gladner, 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.
00:04:42.000Listen, it's the ones you most suspect.
00:04:45.000I mean, if you had told me that a man with a Totenkopf tattoo who routinely went online and talked about his bizarre sexual fetishes, And who allegedly said to a woman who wanted to rape a home invader, but not in a gay way.
00:05:00.000If you had told me that dude also allegedly raped a lady, the only part of that sentence that is in any way questionable is a lady.
00:05:09.000That's like the only part, all the other parts totally expected.
00:05:13.000In other words, I do not think it is fair to say that you did not see that coming.
00:05:23.000So you remember a few weeks ago, that was the story about Lindsey Fivefield dating Graham Plattner.
00:05:29.000And you'll recall that the New York Times kind of reported by vague reference Raskott's allegations Three other women who had been romantically involved with Mr. Plattner offered a far more complicated assessment, describing volatile and toxic relationships that were unsettling and at times emotionally wrenching.
00:05:51.000See, unsettling and emotionally wrenching, I don't think that fully describes rape.
00:05:57.000I mean, I assume that rape is both unsettling and emotionally wrenching.
00:06:01.000But I feel like the New York Times could have been clearer.
00:06:04.000Apparently, what actually happened is the New York Times talked to Jenny Rascott, and she was, quote unquote, on the record.
00:06:10.000They used that to get Lindsey Fifield to tell her story, and then they basically cast aspersions at Lindsey Fifield when Rascott decided she didn't want to go on the record yet.
00:06:20.000And by the way, worth noting in that Politico piece, unbelievable quote in that Politico piece, apparently, Rascott said that one of the reasons why, apparently, She did not actually report this at the time was because I kid you not, she shared his politics.
00:06:40.000Which, guys, if we're not at the point in human life where you have to basically look the other way when someone rapes you because you agree with their politics, I think we got some problem here.
00:06:50.000In any case, Lindsey Fifield put out a tweet I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June, but are taking them seriously now.
00:07:00.000The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times could not corroborate my story just by talking to two of my friends.
00:07:06.000I gave them the contact information for five friends.
00:07:08.000They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse, but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, et cetera.
00:07:14.000They simply did not call the other three.
00:07:16.000I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house, which was about five houses down from his and waiting for me to return.
00:07:23.000I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.
00:07:27.000I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us.
00:07:33.000I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it all time marked.
00:07:39.000I told them that during premarital counseling, I had spoken to my ex fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror anytime he lost his temper.
00:07:47.000They said, Oh, no, we don't need to bother him or my priest.
00:07:50.000Besides, I'd written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.
00:07:53.000As the weeks dragged on, I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I'd already given them seemed to overwhelm them.
00:07:58.000And I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my claim.
00:08:02.000My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them he was abusive long before he ran for Senate.
00:08:10.000Both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse and love bombing.
00:08:17.000The third unnamed woman in the story did as well, but tell me again how they could not corroborate.
00:08:22.000Act of massive journalistic malfeasance is what's being described here.
00:08:25.000So, Graham Plattner put out a video denying this, but he is taking time to reflect on the best path forward.
00:08:34.000I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me.
00:08:40.000Any accusation of non consensual behavior is categorically false.
00:08:45.000Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love.
00:08:55.000The people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins.
00:09:02.000Those were the goals when we launched this campaign, and they remain my goals today.
00:09:08.000I mean, other than raping home invaders.
00:09:12.000So, apparently, he told the New York Times he's not dropped out yet, but if he were to drop out, then he would want a guarantee from the party that basically it would not be Janet Mills to replace him, which is pretty amazing.
00:09:23.000He's now blackmailing the party not to drop out, which is unique.
00:09:27.000Usually, you blackmail people to do things, not to not do things.
00:09:30.000In any case, he says, according to the New York Times, if he was to step down, it would only be with a guarantee of being replaced by a candidate who he believes is true to the values and vision and policy agenda of the campaign that Maine voted for.
00:09:42.000So he will only do it if he can find somebody who agrees with him in order to step into that particular slot.
00:09:48.000And so, you know, at the risk of making suggestions Democrats might take, I believe that there is a possible candidate, someone who.
00:09:58.000You know, hates capitalism and despises President Trump and loves America's enemies and also is pretty fond of Nazi apologism and is even endorsed by Cenk Uygar and even pretends to be blue collar even though he grew up as silver spoon as humanly possible.
00:10:15.000I speak, of course, about Tucker Carlson, who does have a house in Maine.
00:11:13.000I understand why people want someone like him in office.
00:11:19.000You know, and I felt like me coming forward would essentially potentially take that away.
00:11:23.000And I felt really uncomfortable with the responsibility of and the weight of my story and what that might do.
00:11:34.000Guys, I mean, something has gone deeply wrong in our society.
00:11:36.000When people, Who are allegedly rape victims are saying that they don't want to say anything because they're afraid it might ruin the politics of the situation.
00:11:43.000Well, lest we forget, Democrats were fine with everything up to this exact point.
00:11:47.000Up to this exact point, they were not only fine, they were glorious with Platner.
00:12:48.000Uh, anti Semitic, uh, you know, and more importantly, you know, not more importantly, but just as important is that he's going to win this election and we need to win elections.
00:13:01.000Well, that lasted until the bad poll came out and then it got hit with this story.
00:13:05.000So, Democrats are now running for the Hills.
00:13:07.000Hassan Piker says this is a reliable accusation, so now it's all over.
00:15:19.000There is a very famous joke about a couple of Jews who are sitting on a park bench in 1930s Germany, and one of them is sitting there all depressed reading the newspaper, and the other is sitting there reading the Nazi.
00:15:30.000Newspaper, Der Sturmer, and smiling and laughing.
00:15:34.000And the friend who's reading the normal newspaper turns to the smiling, laughing guy and says, What are you laughing about?
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