Sexual abuse
Ms. Fifield also recalled that Mr. Platner’s displays of weaponry and discussions of violence sometimes left her uneasy.
She said he kept an AR-15 lying around his apartment on Capitol Hill, and would sharpen an ax — a relic from his time working on the Appalachian Trail before he enlisted in the Marines — while watching television.
He had what she described as a “warrior ethos” and would fantasize about killing people he deemed a threat, she said. She said he told her thatremoved was about power.
It was something that stuck with her through the years, Ms. Fifield said.
“He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I wouldremoved them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”
“He was like, I wouldremoved them to show them that I’m dominant,” she said.
Asked about those remarks, a Platner campaign official did not dispute them. A friend who knew Mr. Platner and Ms. Fifield during that period said the comments sounded out of character.
I’m feeling very vindicated in my original take, that he’s completely amoral but non-ideological, and just extremely into doing hands-on violence. I think he just hit a certain age and realized he’d need to change careers to social murder instead.
Looking forward to the next scandal involving taking trophies from his victims, like Ben Roberts-Smith and that prosthetic leg.
Edit: ok, looks like the sourcing is bad on this one so I’ll delay my gloating. But if he’s been collecting ears like a Diablo player I’m gonna be completely obnoxious about it.
He had multiple Reddit comments defending soldiers taking “human trophies” in ww2 so I wouldn’t be too surprised if he also did it.