Please tell me i’m not the only one who still finds this ridiculous and believes that only a court of law can determine guilt?

  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Mr. Platner could be rough with her, Ms. Fifield said, particularly when they were drinking, leaving her shaken and sometimes afraid. In the interviews, Ms. Fifield grappled with how to process her experiences. She was quick to note that he “never hit me, he never punched me.”

    But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.

    During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.” Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html

    • velma@sh.itjust.works
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      19 days ago

      There are people seriously pushing here that because this woman is conservative she must be lying.

      I believe her.

      • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
        01·
        19 days ago

        That’s such a weird line, like she planned this out a decade before Platner got into politics?

        It’s just so depressing. I get that folks can love his positions but goddamn, I also thought we had standards.

        • velma@sh.itjust.works
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          19 days ago

          There’s some real conspiracy theory shit brewing here. Talk about the text messages being made up by Israel and whatnot. It’s a little much considering the most believable part of this story is that a man got drunk and forced himself on the woman he was seeing at the time.

          • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
            01·
            19 days ago

            Ugh.

            I guess, glass half full, it’s nice to see the Right doesn’t have a monopoly on “well, he’s our guy so everything else is a rigged conspiracy.”

            Depressing AF.