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The Messy Rise of Graham Platner
The Maine oyster farmer’s dark years are a mounting liability for Democrats in their quest to gain control of the Senate.
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The New York Times set up Graham Platner’s ex to make him look better — so now we don’t ‘believe all women?’
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A New York Times investigative piece on Graham Platner, containing serious accusations of abuse from an ex-girlfriend should be the political bombshell of the season. But it was delivered in bubble wrap.
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Controversy swirls around Graham Platner ahead of Maine Senate primary
Just days to go before the Senate primary in Maine, Democratic candidate Graham Platner insists he won't drop out of the race despite a new report from The New York Times in which three women who dated Platner detailed behavior they found "unsettling." It's the latest issue facing the fledgling political hopeful. Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.
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House Democrat says Platner has ‘disqualified himself’ from Maine Senate race
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said Friday that she believes Democrat Graham Platner has “disqualified himself” from the Maine Senate race amid a series of escalating allegations about his past behavior toward women. “I think it’s so distressing, all of the stories that are coming out, and they’re more and more it seems by the hour,”…
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Ex-FBI official says agents are abandoning Trump’s 'partisan idiots'
Former intelligence analyst and ex-FBI official Michael Feinberg said the spate of firings, dismissals and retirements in President Donald Trump’s second term is not so one-sided. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he believes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is “unnecessary and or too big,” and would “like to see it smaller”“I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said, about those who worked in the Joe Biden and Barack Obama administrations. But Feinberg said serious employees, those with intelligence and a hint of patriotism, are already a step ahead and likely leaving for their own reasons.“[I]n the intelligence community, bad leadership drives out good leadership because the people who take on those roles at the FBI, the CIA, … other places, they're principled, they're patriotic, they're idealistic. And when they see somebody come in taking a wrecking ball to the agency's ability to manifest and epitomize those qualities, they realize it's not somewhere they could work anymore,” Feinberg told MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace. “And all of a sudden you get a lot of lackeys. And as I said earlier, you get people who are not going to tell the president when he's wrong and the president's going to make bad decisions.”Wallace made a reference to a recent New York Times article reporting that Trump largely ignored his entire national security team and instead took trusted the claims of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the run up to Trump’s disastrous war in Iran, which has lifted gas and food prices and put Republicans’ hold on the House and Senate in jeopardy.“It's going to get worse,” Feinberg assured as more professionals evacuate federal rooms filling up with imbeciles.“The intelligence community … are Ph.D. holders. They are people who acutely understand social science research methods. They are people who speak multiple languages, who understand how to use cultural norms, to recruit somebody to want to work with the United States. There are more soft skills than hard skills … but the former is overwhelmingly more important and intelligent people, patriotic people, and they don't want to work for partisan idiots,” said Feinberg.“I don't know how to put it more straightforward than that,” Feinberg added. “And not only do they not want to do the work, they can't do it because people like Bill Pulte or Tulsi Gabbard or Kash Patel or John Ratcliffe don't want to let them.”Yeah,” agreed Wallace. “Yeah, it's about as blunt as that.” - YouTube youtu.be
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What Do We Do With the Latest Revelations About Graham Platner?
The latest revelations have left Maine's voters in an unenviable position.
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Is Graham Platner Too Messy to Flip Maine’s Senate Seat?
Some thought Graham Platner could be the future of the Democratic party. Now he's trying to get his campaign past another dumpster fire of his own making.
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Trump biographer exposes the inescapable flaw making him 'weaker and weaker'
President Donald Trump is growing "weaker and weaker" by the day, and according to his one-time biographer, this is all being driven by an incurable flaw in his character. Michael Wolff is a veteran reporter and author, best known for extensive coverage of Trump's political career, based on contacts within his inner circle and administration staff. In the latest edition of his Daily Beast podcast, Wolff revealed the essential failing within Trump that is making him weaker on a "daily basis": his inability and unwillingness to change.“Two things are happening at the same time. Donald Trump is not changing,” Wolff explained. “Donald Trump can’t change. Donald Trump can’t fix the situation that he’s in. Donald Trump doesn’t want to. Donald Trump wants to be Donald Trump.”He continued: “That becomes clearer and clearer, which means that the enterprise itself gets weaker and weaker and is, in fact, falling apart. So, we’re dealing with these two things: Donald Trump... and the power that he has, and Donald Trump and the power that he is losing on a daily basis.”Wolff gave the example of Trump giving major administration jobs to "unfit" people because he believes he can get away with it. He specifically highlighted his nomination of Bill Pulte to be the new director of national intelligence, effectively handing control of the world's biggest intelligence apparatus to someone with zero relevant experience. Wolff claimed to have spoken with someone close to Trump, who gave a simple answer as to why Trump is doing things of that nature."I was talking to a Trump guy — you know, someone I regard as basically a decent sort about this — and I was asking how can he hire these people? And this person replied, ‘To show that he can,’“ Wolff said. “It’s all about him. It’s all about the message that he’s sending. So when he appoints these totally unfit people, it’s a message of control and contempt for rules and standards."Wolff noted later that Trump has a simple message for Republicans, Congress, his administration and the rest of the world with his unceasingly bad nominations: "F—— you."“That is elemental to how he sees his administration and how he staffs his administration: I can appoint this person because I can," he said.
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Trump plans to attend NBA Finals in New York City
President Trump, a native New Yorker and self-described Knicks fan, said he was invited to attend a Knicks playoff game by the team's owner James Dolan, who has donated to his political campaigns.
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