WASHINGTON — The primary lady to publicly accuse disgraced former Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner of abuse admonished skeptic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, venting that she was “horrified by the dismissive feedback” he made about her allegations.
Whitehouse (D-RI), as soon as a key champion of Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers, dubiously claimed that Fifield lacked corroboration and pointed to her previous work in politics. He doubled down on that Wednesday.
“[Sen. Whitehouse], you rushed to publicly condemn me with out bothering to get the details proper again in June,” Fifiled posted on X in response to the senator doubling down.
“You had over a month to replicate on that mistake, however as a substitute of apologizing and even admitting you have been incorrect, you selected to double down. How actually pathetic.”
Fifield, who dated Platner from roughly 2013 to 2015, alleged that he as soon as bodily yanked her out of a cab and, at one other time, twisted her arm behind her again and locked her in a room. Platner had vehemently denied all accusations of bodily abuse.
Her accusations have been featured in a bombshell New York Instances story about Platner’s previous relationship with girls.
However Whitehouse stood by Platner till Jenny Racicot, who supported the sexy oyster farmer’s far-left ideology, accused him of rape.
“If you’re taking a look at allegations … [you have] to judge issues like whether or not there may be corroboration, and with respect to the primary accusation, there was none,” Whitehouse instructed CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper instructed the senator that there was corroboration and pointed to confidants of Fifield to whom she had conveyed her accusations in opposition to Platner on the time his alleged outbursts occurred.
“Whether or not there’s motive to mislead or fabricate. There was a lot,” Whitehouse added. “The girl was concerned in mainly a Koch-funded political operation and had particularly been concerned in Maine political actions in opposition to Platner.”
Fifield beforehand labored for a number of conservative teams, such because the Heritage Basis, and was a part of the Impartial Girls’s Discussion board, a few of which can have acquired funding from the Koch brothers at one level.
However there isn’t a proof she was concerned with an lively Koch operation or that she was actively concerned in Maine “political actions in opposition to Platner,” regardless of joking in a personal message about backing Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
“I’ve by no means taken a dime from AIPAC or Koch. I shouldn’t must say that,” Fifield shot again in response to Whitehouse. “My LinkedIn is public. I haven’t labored ‘in politics’ because the starting of 2023, once I was digital advertising director for [Nikki Haley].”
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“After having a miscarriage I made the troublesome however right resolution to prioritize my household,” she added. “Since then, the one marketing campaign I’ve waged has been in opposition to the kudzu vines creeping into my gardens, and the one lobbying I’ve finished has been attempting—to this point in useless—to persuade my husband to let me get chickens.”
Again in 2018, Fifield co-based the group, Women for Kavanaugh. Whitehouse had been one of the crucial distinguished Democrats championing the accusations made by Christine Blasey Ford and others in opposition to the longer term justice.
Notably, with Ford’s accusations, there wasn’t corroboration that she and Kavanaugh even met. Ford cited three witnesses apart from her and Kavanaugh, she claimed, have been current on the occasion the place she alleged the longer term Supreme Court docket justice raped her.
None of them, together with her buddy, Leland Keyser, may recall the 2 ever assembly. Keyser couldn’t recall the occasion.
Ford was additionally a registered Democrat, however that didn’t seem to issue into Whitehouse’s calculus on the time.
In contrast to with Ford’s accusations, there may be proof that Fifield met with Platner, together with photographs of the 2 collectively. She additionally had non-public messages with pals claiming he had a Nazi tattoo earlier than his skull-and-crossbones ink turned publicly identified.
The Submit contacted Whitehouse’s workplace for remark.
