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格雷厄姆·普拉特纳 (Graham Platner) 退出参议院竞选，批评者不断涌现
格雷厄姆·普拉特纳 (Graham Platner) 赢得了民主党参议院初选，尽管女性提出了令人不安的指控，质疑他对待她们的方式。当他约会过的一名女子上周一说他未经她同意强迫她发生性关系时，普拉特纳的一切都结束了。他被指控强奸了女友。他[...]
来源:Diane Ravitch的博客格雷厄姆·普拉特纳 (Graham Platner) 赢得了民主党参议院初选，尽管女性提出了令人不安的指控，质疑他对待她们的方式。当他约会过的一名女子上周一说他未经她同意强迫她发生性关系时，普拉特纳的一切都结束了。他被指控强奸了女友。他否认了这一点，但他的气球已经没有空气了。
Tonight Platner denied the allegations, blamed the “establishment” for derailing his campaign, but announced that he was suspending his campaign.
缅因州民主党将召开大会并选出新候选人。
This is the best outcome. In retrospect, the most damning evidence against Platner came from his wife, who told a campaign leader that her husband had been sexting with other women after they were married.他为什么要这么做？ That’s a career destroyer.
但《华盛顿邮报》记录了最严重的堆积事件。
Last night at 10:20 pm, the Post published a vile, disgusting story about Platner that never should have seen the light of day, in my view..
In that article, Lyndsey Fifield, the conservative woman who worked for the Heritage Foundation and was part of a group supporting Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, made a lewd accusation against Platner that could not be verified or corroborated.她说，当她与普拉特纳发生性关系时，他在未经她同意的情况下摘下了安全套，尽管他知道她没有使用避孕措施。 Apparently this happened more than once.她与他约会了三年，并说他“多次”在不戴安全套的情况下发生性行为。
It started like this:
大多数评论（至少前 100 条左右）都攻击了费菲尔德的可信度和动机。 One asked why she didn’t use birth control.另一个人问她为什么继续与他发生性关系。
Rape and sexual assault are criminal acts. They do reflect on one’s fitness for office.我们应该从特朗普的裁决行为中吸取教训，不要相信虐待女性的男性。