New York Times reporter downplays accusations against Graham Platner as not like classic abuse allegations

A New York Times journalist on Wednesday shockingly downplayed accusations leveled against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner by his ex-girlfriends as “not like classic abuse allegations.”Jodi Kantor, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse, suggested Maine voters may have been willing to overlook the scandals plaguing Platner’s campaign in Tuesday’s primary because they “are not classic MeToo accusations” – before comparing them to President Trump’s scandals.“They’re not about a boss and a young female employee being subjected to sexual advances.They were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships,” Kantor said in a CNN interview about the allegations against Platner reported in the Times. “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,” she argued. “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.”The Times reported Platner’s alleged women-hating behavior last week, citing three of the Maine Democrat’s former girlfriends. Lyndsay Fifield, who dated Platner from 2013 to 2015, told the outlet that the former oyster farmer and Marine veteran “regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.”During another incident, Fifield claimed, “he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was ‘calm.’”“There was one allegation of crossing a line physically,” Kantor acknowledged, without detailing it, “but I think that means that th...