Graham Platner Accuser Levels ‘stealthing’ Claim Against Embattled Maine Senate Candidate: Report

An ex-girlfriend has accused embattled Maine U.S. Senate campaigner Graham Platner of removing condoms during activity without her consent, nan latest successful a drawstring of awesome misconduct allegations against nan Democrat.

Lyndsey Fifield, 41, who dated Platner successful nan Washington, D.C., area, told The Washington Post that he many times removed protection erstwhile they were friendly during their relationship, which lasted from 2013 to 2015.

“He would propulsion condoms off,” she said successful an question and reply pinch nan paper. “He would do it successful a sneaky way. He wouldn’t show me.”

The run told nan Post that Fifield’s accusation is “categorically mendacious and politically motivated.” It besides reportedly noted that Fifield, who has worked successful blimpish politics, supported Brett Kavanaugh erstwhile he was accused of intersexual assault up of his information to nan U.S. Supreme Court.

The Independent has contacted nan Platner run for comment.

Platner’s alleged behaviour successful these situations, known arsenic “stealthing,” is considered intersexual battle successful aggregate countries, and it is forbidden successful aggregate U.S. states.

She alleges that Platner, a Marine Corps seasoned and oyster farmer, did truthful astatine slightest six times complete nan people of their relationship, and that she confronted him astir nan behavior.

“I confronted him some during and aft [sex] because he knew that I was not connected commencement power and really vulnerable that was,” Fifield told nan Post.

In different interview, she told nan Post: “He would enactment for illustration tiny astir it, for illustration ‘Oh sneaky me.’”

A friend told nan Post that Fifield recounted nan alleged incidents pinch Planter soon aft nan extremity of their relationship.

Fifield antecedently accused Platner of threatening beingness conduct, including grabbing her by nan shoulders and twisting her arm, nan New York Times reported, accounts he said he “strongly disputes.”

The 41-year-old told nan Post she came guardant to stock her further accusation of intersexual misconduct aft Jenny Racicot, different ex-girlfriend of Platner, accused nan Maine campaigner of intersexual battle stemming from an alleged 2021 incident. Platner has called Racicot’s allegation “categorically false.”

In nan aftermath of Racicot’s allegation, Platner said he was “taking nan clip to bespeak connected nan champion way forward” for his scandal-plagued grassroots Senate campaign, which shocked nan Democratic constitution by defeating Maine Governor Janet Mills successful nan primaries.

Critics and erstwhile friends alike person urged Platner to driblet retired of nan title against nan incumbent Republican senator, Susan Collins.

“I person spoken pinch Graham Platner astir nan champion way guardant for Maine,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, a salient erstwhile backer of nan Platner campaign, wrote connected X connected Tuesday. “In ray of these very superior allegations, I person recommended that he measurement aside.”

Platner’s emergence to nan nationalist shape has been marked pinch scandal.

The oysterman attracted disapproval for having a thorax tattoo featuring what’s wide recognized arsenic a Nazi skull and crossbones symbol.

Platner said he sewage nan tattoo successful 2007 during a nighttime of drinking successful Europe while he was serving successful nan subject and was primitively unaware of its meaning. He later sewage nan tattoo covered and modified to lucifer a wolf.

The insurgent Democrat besides attracted scrutiny for a bid of profane Reddit posts he near anterior to his clip connected nan run trail, which included comments criticizing constabulary officers and claiming Black group don’t tip.

Planter said he wrote nan posts during a play of individual turmoil including a conflict pinch post-traumatic accent disorder.

“A batch of it isn’t moreover things I believed then,” Platner told nan Portland Press Herald past year. “A batch of them are conscionable stupid joke comments. I look backmost now and I don’t mean to beryllium flippant, but it was conscionable dumb worldly connected nan internet, and erstwhile I stopped being lonely and isolated I didn’t usage that arsenic an outlet anymore.”