A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, 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.
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 even winning the primary is damaging to the oligarchs. Him saying wealth taxes and Medicare for All and out polling Collins is bad for them even if he's forced out.
They had a candidate who would be in their pocket. She lost the primary. And if they wanted someone to lose to Collins, she was doing that too.
And if you think this is all an oligarch plan, then this woman's accusations now are at their behest and thus suspect. You can't think she's a sincere victim just acting on her own timetable and also that this is a planned downfall.