Mika Brzezinski casts doubt on bombshell Graham Platner rape report: Is there evidence?

MS NOW’s Mika Brzezinski appeared to cast doubt on a bombshell allegation of rape against Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, repeatedly pressing one of the journos who broke the story for “concrete evidence.”She grilled Politico reporter Adam Wren over his report in which Platner’s ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot accused the candidate of breaking into her home and raping her almost five years ago — instantly triggering calls from prominent Dems for Platner to exit the Maine race.He denied the allegations, but said he was “taking time” to reflect on his candidacy.

“My question to you, given the very high standards Politico has before they write something like this and publish it – what aspects of this story brought it to the level of publishable?” Brzezinski asked Tuesday morning, noting there was no police report or legal filing about the rape allegation.Wren replied that he and his colleague Jessica Piper reviewed email exchanges between Racicot and her therapist, in whom she confided “in almost real-time;” talked to people who Racicot spoke to after the alleged rape; and spent a lot of time talking to Racicot across multiple interviews.“We asked her why she didn’t file a police report and she described sort of the insular nature of where she lives in her corner of Maine that she shares with Graham Platner and she, you know, debated sort of how to handle this, and we found ultimately the number of corroborating pieces of evidence to support her story in a way that we could report it,” Wren added.Brzezinski pressed: “So, what are some of those corroborating pieces of evidence? … Any conversations with Graham Platner at the time … do you have that? What do you have that actually connects this literally? Graham Platner to raping this victim?”“Yeah, she reached out to him the day after via Instagram and essentially told him that, you know, she didn’t want to hear from him again,” Wren said. Brzezinski jumped in: “But...