@420mercymain69 Fun common thread with all of us is that none of us were planning to come forward until his lies enraged us so much that we had to.
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Lyndsey Fifield
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Lyndsey Fifield
@lyndseyfifield
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Northern Virginia Katılım Eylül 2008
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My statement regarding Graham Platner
🤍✨Dipshit Usagi✨🤍@420mercymain69
I very briefly was talking to and then consequently seeing Graham Platner from about February 2021 until mid July 2021 when it was revealed to me that he was cheating on his fiancé at the time. He knew about the fucking tattoo.
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@bethanyshondark You should send your kids to my VBS 🤷🏻♀️
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Jews need to copy the VBS model.
Mother of Hooligans ☕️@Katherine111594
My church is small and full of normal people with humble jobs and our VBS of 100+ kids is free. They get a shirt and a snack and a craft. Churches should budget for this outreach. That’s not a cost you push off onto…the families you are trying to reach.
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This week I've heard from dozens of women who have been victims of domestic violence.
Many have remarked not just how much they relate to my story overall but how they, too, once qualified their abuse in the same way I did in my interview with the Times: Clarifying that Graham didn't break my arm, didn't ever punch or slap me.
I didn't realize that was what I was doing—I just didn't want to exaggerate. If anything I wanted to downplay his violence and the deep, lasting impact it has had on my life.
I also have felt I need to be clear that I was never, ever antagonistic, never picked a fight, and took great pains to try to keep him from becoming enraged.
My friends have pointed out that that's not normal. I shouldn't feel the need to insist to the public that I didn't do anything to deserve or provoke physical intimidation, control, or abuse. No one does.
I forgave Graham years ago and was glad to see that he had gotten sober and seemingly had gotten help for his mental health issues—I sincerely wished him well but when I realized I was not the only woman he had done this to, that he has a lifelong pattern of deep contempt for women, I realized he had suckered me once again.
And instead of support for coming forward, Jenny and I have been met with horrific smears, told it was “karma,” or that it wasn’t “that bad.”
So... yeah, that is actually pretty classic.
Curtis Houck@CurtisHouck
WATCH: New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor – who wrote many of the #MeToo stories – DEFENDS Graham Platner and DISMISSES the allegations against him by @LyndseyFifield and other ex-girlfriends because they were not “abuse” and women saying they just “did not like what” they saw from him... “Well, let’s talk about what they may or may not be willing to overlook the accusations against Graham Platner are not classic MeToo accusations. They’re not about a boss and a young female employee being subjected to sexual advances. They’re — they were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships. There are these, like, very sensational texts about sex. There are allegations from former girlfriends that are not — the way my colleagues reported them were not like classic abuse allegations. They were mostly like being his boyfriend gave me a view into him and I did not like what I saw. His character was scary. He had this Nazi tattoo. Et cetera.” “There was one allegation of crossing a line physically, but I think that means that these are pretty different accusations than, say, the one that — the ones that President Trump faced. And, of course, in the Access Hollywood tape, President Trump bragged about grabbing women against their will. And so I think it speaks to the kind of confusion of the long post MeToo moment in which, like, gender related accusations get bundled together. But they’re actually very different.”
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Lyndsey Fifield retweetledi
My friend, @lyndseyfifield, is a courageous woman and amazing mother. What the New York Times and Democrat politicians and political analysts did to her and said about her will forever be a black mark against them.
I am so proud of her.
The Free Press@TheFP
Lyndsey Fifield told ‘The New York Times’ Graham Platner emotionally abused her and became physical multiple times. So why is she under attack? Frannie Block and Audrey Fahlberg report. thefp.com/p/graham-platn…
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Lyndsey Fifield retweetledi
Everybody's focused on Lyndsey Fifield's experiences with Platner because she's a Republican. But here's what Jenny Racicot, a lifelong Democrat who dated Platner and spoke to the NYT about an "unsettling" experience she had with him years ago, has to say about him.
Speaking with @TheFP, Racicot explained that she is a supporter of Platner’s policies—but not who he is as a person.
“I had good memories with him, but also, there’s a side of him that I had an experience with that caused me to cut off all contact and to not support him as a person,” she said. “It was eating me alive to see somebody that I know to be one way publicly portray themselves a different way.” W/@FrannieBlock:
thefp.com/p/graham-platn…
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Thankful for @TheFP actually contacting sources I gave NYT and verifying I did, in fact, have friends who knew about Graham’s abuse/corroborated everything.
I never would’ve spoken out if NYT hadn’t convinced me—but even after their betrayal I’m confident I did the right thing.
The Free Press@TheFP
Lyndsey Fifield told ‘The New York Times’ Graham Platner emotionally abused her and became physical multiple times. So why is she under attack? Frannie Block and Audrey Fahlberg report. thefp.com/p/graham-platn…
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@exjon @willcollier God forgive me Jon I thought you meant 3 more hours *on earth* and began weeping — brother you gotta be more specific ❤️
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This little doohickey sucks my blood, harvests the stem cells, then returns what’s left. Pretty amazing tech.
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Lyndsey Fifield retweetledi
Last year, I watched a woman sacrifice her career to stand on principle and warn the public about a dangerous man.
Genevieve has been relentlessly attacked—but she kept her honor and her soul. She has inspired me to stay strong through this storm.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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@hollysmcbride We probably agree on more than you think. Thank you so much for this encouragement.
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@lyndseyfifield I am no longer on X, but I’ve read the news and your tweets. I wanted to tell you that I’ve been a Dem for the last 25 years. You and I probably agree on very very little. And I believe you and I’m so sorry that happened to you.
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@AndrewCFollett @KFILE They also didn’t reach out to the witness I gave them who knew about it with screenshots of texts between us talking about their guns (and much more) in 2013.
No wonder nothing was “corroborated!”
Cannot wait for everything to come out and for the other women to be heard.
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NEW: We've asked Platner's campaign since year to explain text messages showing his ex-girlfriend was describing his tattoo as a Nazi symbol months before Platner says he knew its meaning.
Platner was pressed on it last night and said, "I can’t say why."
cnn.com/2026/06/05/pol…
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@lyndseyfifield You need to publish EVERYTHING you gave to NYT. Don’t let them get away with slanting the truth. Graham Platner is dangerous and should never hold public office! Be brave!
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If you're gonna dig through my old tweets let's do it properly.
Lyndsey Fifield@lyndseyfifield
Hipster wonk tweet: I've been hating Roy Moore since way before any of you.
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@aelfred_D @lyndseyfifield I remember her vegan phase. I should dig through her tweets from the CrossFit era, some of that was downright hilarious. 😂
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Lyndsey Fifield retweetledi
I’m very open to people weighing the possible motivations and actual evidence of any charge (even when it's a friend). I know people don't have the benefit of knowing Lyndsey and having heard about Graham for years from her, as I did.
A problem during the #metoo era was no one seemed to be using any kind of standard of evaluation that was consistent, which seems important in media. I created one for myself: When I was asked to opine in public on various allegations and wanted to do so responsibly, I had a rubric for considering credibility on a spectrum (and also tried not to be rude and dismissive out the gate of almost anything, with Swetnick testing that with sheer audacity).
— a named accuser
— evidence the two people knew each other and had been in the same place at the same time at the time of alleged event
— contemporaneous reports, though not necessarily to police. Diary entries, conversations with friends, etc.
— a demonstrated M.O. from the accused
Christine Blasey Ford’s account had 1 of these (named accuser). By contrast, accusations against Roy Moore had all four. Lyndsey’s has three (and the second named source's story of him showing up at her house drunk and acting such that she cut off contact with him suggests there is a drunken, boundary-crossing, scary M.O.)
By merely marshaling evidence the two were often in the same place at the same time during the acknowledged past relationship, Fifield has surpassed Ford's account's documentation. The NYT verified old diary entries, and her texts confirmed many of her thoughts on him predated him running for office. She was forthright that she hid his worst behavior, as many women in abusive relationships do, and very specific in her characterization of his physical behavior (one suspects if it were a made-up partisan hit, she might not caveat his physical abuse so much and would have dropped this in September, but I digress). It is both scary and embarrassing to admit the truth in those situations.
This is all separate from what voters might find acceptable, but the account Lyndsey gives is one that, if I knew it in real time, I'd actively help the friend get out of the relationship and advise her to stay out of it. I've done this with other friends and wish I'd been able to be there for Lyndsey at the time. It shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, especially given it hits far more marks than other allegations treated with utmost seriousness in the press. The idea that this is either all merely normie, drunk, working-class behavior or "Dem HR lady politics" to find it problematic doesn't fly. So many people spent two decades saying every dude right of a Wellesley gender politics professor was a toxic white supremacist but now think you're just a big pussy if you'd object to being locked in a bedroom by a big drunk guy with a Nazi tattoo.
Noam Blum@neontaster
The problem with MeToo writ large was that feeding frenzies tend to discard the circumstances of individual incidents and give more weight to the "the dam has broken!" mentality. Some MeToo allegations were robust and credible, and others weren't.
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(a husband and father being eager to protect his wife and little children in their home is good actually)
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@just_mindy Thank you dear friend. The best years of my life. I would give anything to be able to fly home to see my grandmothers again just one more time and take them their precious girls. ❤️
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while Tracey is lying about Lyndsey, I want to point out something that first endeared her to me many years ago. I have a decade or so on her, but I was so impressed with the love and care she showed her Grandmother in the last years of her life. You don’t see that much these days.
Lyndsey would fly to her Grandmother’s home very often to be with her and once she had her first child, she would make the trip with her so her grandmother would know her great grandchild. Any young mother knows how hard it is to travel alone with a child often but Lyndsey did it.
Young people just don’t care about their elders like that anymore and it was just a testament to her character and how she valued the people in her life.
She’s an exceptional person. Light offends the dark.
Michael Tracey@mtracey
@emzanotti Yeah, she does have a lot of "friends," if by "friends" you mean an entire DC professional class infrastructure backing up her disgraceful, choreographed, self-serving "accusations."
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Lyndsey Fifield retweetledi
Proud to stand by my former colleague @lyndseyfifield. Thanks to @IngrahamAngle for the opportunity—and shame on the New York Times for its treatment of her.
Lyndsey Fifield@lyndseyfifield
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.
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@Genevieve_207 @daveweigel Thank you—this means so much.
Seeing your statement when you stepped down inspired me to finally stop being silent myself and I admire your courage.
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I am so proud of @lyndseyfifield and all the women who have come forward, and will come forward. Thank you for your courage.
If we want a better government, we need to elevate leaders with integrity. All of us.
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