Platner Circles the Drain, Will He Drop Out? Stay Updates
On Monday, Politico printed an account from Jenny Racicot, who as soon as dated Platner, by which she accused him of sexual assault. Right here’s extra from their unique report:
The girl, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the previous two weeks. POLITICO additionally spoke with a person Racicot dated and confided within the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed paperwork, together with emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned towards getting concerned with Platner years earlier than he ran for workplace.
Racicot stated she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who’s now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for greater than two years earlier than he entered her rural Maine dwelling uninvited one night time in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and compelled himself on her whereas she repeatedly instructed him to cease. She stated she minimize off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I bear in mind him grabbing my pelvis and being actually forceful of me,” she stated. “I bear in mind the particular second the place I believed to myself, like, ‘That is now not my selection.’”
Platner denied Racicot’s declare in an announcement to Politico. “These allegations are troubling, severe, and false. Any accusation of non-consensual habits is categorically unfaithful,” he instructed the outlet.
