Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner denied the latest allegations against him on Thursday in his first national media interview since the scandal broke.Prior to the interview, Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriends spoke out in a damning New York Times report, which chronicled new allegations of rape fantasies, heavy drinking and violent episodes.Among them included an alleged public encounter where Platner purportedly pulled an ex-girlfriend out of a taxi by her wrist during an altercation and pushed her into a bedroom holding the door shut.Platner asserted that this and other allegations were "not true" and "did not" happen when asked on MS NOW's "All In with Chris Hayes."GRAHAM PLATNER AVOIDS MAINSTREAM PRESS AS SCANDALS SURROUNDING MAINE DEMOCRAT GROWSA new report from the New York Times accuses Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner of abusing an ex-girlfriend.
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)"No, it did not," Platner said."There are some allegations in this piece that I just want to be kind of unequivocal about are simply not true.
Anything alleging physicality, anything alleging that I knew what my tattoo was, these are the statements of someone who’s politically motivated in this piece."He continued, "There’s a lot about my struggling not being a good boyfriend, certainly self-medicating with alcohol.And I’ve been very up front since the beginning of this campaign that that was a pretty dark period of my life after I came back from my combat service.
And that’s what that combat, that’s what that kind of life looks like.And so there are things in this that I absolutely will take responsibility for and have been speaking about openly for months now, but those serious allegations are just not true."FETTERMAN DARES PLATNER TO RELEASE MESSAGES WITH MYSTERY WOMEN, SAYS HE'LL 'WEAR A SUIT EVERY DAY' IN RETURNGraham Platner has faced backlash for a growing number of scandals.
(Nicholas Ballasy/Fox News Digital)"You did not grab her by the wrist.You di...