Several top Democrats have asked the Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) to leave the race after a major report said he raped a woman.However, Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t agree with that idea.Instead, she said the report looked like a “political hit job” by the establishment.
Greene shared her thoughts during an appearance on The View.
Co-host Sara Haines mentioned that many Democrats had asked Platner to quit before asking Greene if she felt the same.Greene didn’t give a clear answer, instead saying the accuser’s claim should be checked because she came forward years later.
“You know, I don’t know anything about his policies.
I just started learning about him yesterday when I saw this blow up.However, I do know what establishment political hit jobs look like,” Greene said.
Haines pushed back, saying that’s usually how sexual assault cases work because it’s hard for victims to come forward.
“Oh, of course,” Greene said.
She continued:
And I really wish women — when a woman is raped, it’s extremely serious. And I stand behind women that are raped — and I ended my political career on that, by the way — and i wish women would come forward. The most important thing a woman can do is come forward and report a rape, not report it years later when someone is running for office.
Haines continued by pointing out that this is clear when looking at accusations against Jeffrey Epstein, a dead sex criminal.
Greene responded by saying many of the accusations were made early on and none ever got justice.
Her comments came after a report from Politico that said a woman Platner dated five years ago accused him of sexual assault.
The accuser, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, gave detailed accounts of the alleged rape.
Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
Platner denied the claim, saying, “any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
According to Politico, Racicot said she was unsure about coming forward partly because she agrees with Platner politically.
The rape accusation comes after several other scandals that have affected Platner’s campaign.
Besides his infamous Nazi “Totenkopf” tattoo, which he has since removed, there were reports that he sent explicit messages to women who weren’t his wife.Also, many unsavory Reddit posts about him were found.None of that stopped him from winning the Democratic primary in June, but the rape claim has now stopped his campaign.
After Politico’s report on Monday, Platner announced he was pausing his campaign to “reflect on the best way forward.”
Democratic leaders like Sen.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for him to drop out, while Rep.Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took back their support.
Greene told The View that she believes Platner’s future should be decided by Maine voters.
“I will say this: you know, Democrat voters in Maine voted for Graham Platner knowing he had this Nazi tattoo, knowing he had scandals — not this scandal — so he did win his primary, and I think the Maine voters should be able to work that out, I really do,” she said.
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