Platner accusation: Believe all women — except when they vote the wrong way

I spend a good part of my professional life as an expert witness, which means courts pay me to tell the difference between evidence and narrative. Judges want dates, corroboration, and contemporaneous accounts. What they do not want is a story that changes shape depending on who benefits from believing it. That is the standard I bring to Graham Platner, the Maine Senate candidate whose party spent a year deciding his conduct toward women was a footnote right up until it wasn't.

Jenny Racicot says Platner let himself into her home uninvited in late 2021, drunk, and forced himself on her after she told him no. She has a date, a location, and, per Politico, text messages and people she confided in at the time, including her therapist and an ex-boyfriend. Platner denies it, calling the account "troubling, serious and false."