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.

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    Just because you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. Idk if cyborgmarx has explicitly stated that you should vote for him but at the minimum has expressed that him winning would be the better option

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      Oh no, by all means I hope the utlra-zionist Susan Collins wins her senete seat and the cracker Platner dies in a house fire. I’m following the party line on this one stalin-approval

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        Yeah that’s exactly what I meant. You are doing the classic lesser of 2 evils. And this probably doesn’t mean anything but I have nothing personally against you I was using you as an example about what the commenter said wasn’t true. But again that probably doesn’t mean anything since I definitely showed my stance

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            I did say you never actually advocated for voting for them if that’s what this is about

            Edit: I guess my wording was a little vague since I said I wasn’t sure

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              It’s just so not worth arguing over imo. I for one think having him win would be better if only to prove to libs that gaining x amount of senate seats still changes nothing and to prove that electoralism is a dead end.

              It’s definitely not worth all the people spitting venom at each other over.

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            Good. There is nothing wrong with saying that an ultra-zionist should lose their seat in theory, but advocating for people to actually vote for their only viable challenger is evil and unprincipled fedposting