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...or falling off his bike
...or wandering off and having to be retrieved
...or... what was your point again?
When the New York Times spoke with Lyndsey Fifield about her experiences with Graham Platner, the paper made promises. Representatives of the paper said they would protect her, that men couldn't keep getting away with it. They collected her diary pages, her screenshots, her contacts, and walked away with everything she had. Then they published their story.
The story they published was damning, but, according to Fifield, they omitted the most serious allegation.
Fifield had every reason to stay quiet. She described her current life as genuinely good, raising two young daughters in a safe neighborhood, working from home, active in her church, and surrounded by close friends and family. She knew exactly what violent leftist activists would do with her name once it was out there.
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So she let two New York Times journalists into her home and handed over everything. Diary pages. Screenshots. Phone numbers. Contacts.
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"I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists," Fifield said. She declined to speak to any other outlets and kept her promise through weeks of delays.
But then the story ran, and it was nothing like what she expected.
“After the story went up I began to ask them… wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?” she asked.
That’s right: The New York Times spiked accusations of sexual assault from the other women (who were Democrats) in their article, instead focusing on her and highlighting her work as a Republican operative.
"Why does it say 'nobody could corroborate' when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?" she continued. Those friends confirmed to the Times that Fifield had told them about Platner's abuse years before he ever announced a run for office. The Times left that out, too.
She drew the only conclusion that fit. .... "The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life."
In Louisiana’s 1991 “jungle primary,” the two top vote-getters were: Edwin Edwards, a former Democratic governor who had been charged with bribery and later convicted of extortion and money laundering; and David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who ran as a Republican. Duke received only 32% of the vote, but that was enough to advance to the runoff. Although he had run for office several times in the 1980s as a Democrat, Duke ran as a Republican in 1991 — and won the Republican candidacy. Faced with an impossible choice of backing an unrepentant white supremacist on their party’s ticket, Republicans rallied around Edwards, launching a campaign under the nose-holding slogan: “Vote for the crook — it’s important.” And it worked. The crook Edwards defeated Duke, 61% to 39%.
Donald Trump finally got the economic success he has touted since his re-election. Will it come in time to boost the GOP's midterm chances?
For the third straight month, the US job market blew past analyst expectations. The economy added 172,000 jobs in May, according to today's jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Not only that, but revisions to the previous two months added another 93,000 jobs. Wages also kept pace slightly ahead of inflation, despite the worries over the oil crunch creating a mildly worrisome inflationary wave:QuoteTotal nonfarm payroll employment increased by 172,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, local government, and health care. Employment in financial activities declined. ...
Yesterday, the Department of Justice dropped a superseding indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, revealing far more evidence it has obtained that pretty conclusively demonstrates that the organization didn't, as it claimed, just pay informants to spy on white supremacist hate groups; it actively organized and paid for activities such as cross burnings, rallies, and even klan robes for individuals who wanted to leave the group.
It has the goods. The bank records, the payments, everything.
An organization that sued the Klan into bankruptcy then used its own money, collected from donors using its IRS nonprofit status, to prop up these organizations and fund their activities.
Everything, it turns out, should be assumed to be a hoax. Even the KKK is a leftist op. Which is pretty embarrassing for everybody involved, amusingly.
AZLD4Candidate (7,023 posts)
1. Timing. Hit pieces one after another. Republicans are scared and know Collins is toast.
Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 07:31 AM
I expect a lot of people here to DEMAND he drop out and will now villify him.
Former Rep. Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress this spring, and dropped out of California's governor's race, following a slew of scandals in which Swalwell was accused of sexual misconduct and allegations of sexual assault. But Swalwell isn't the only one with a scandal on his hands.
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, another California Democrat, has been caught having an extramarital affair with Yardena Wolf, who was Swalwell's former Chief of Staff. Gomez is married with a young child at home.Quotehe mystery woman Rep. Jimmy Gomez admitted to making “mistakes” with is his best buddy Eric Swalwell’s former chief of staff, The Post can reveal.
The married California Democrat had an 11-month-old child at home when he was caught in a moment of passion with Swalwell’s minxy congressional aide Yardena Wolf three years ago.
Gomez, the founder of the Dads Caucus in Congress, confessed Tuesday in a statement that he cheated on his wife after The Post’s reporting on the encounter with Wolf, which kicked off a House Ethics Committee investigation, yielding fresh tips on his conduct.
Wolf, at the time 29, and Gomez, then 48, were spotted having an intimate moment against a car outside a party at Swalwell’s home north of the Capitol in the summer of 2023 — about two years into her tenure as Swalwell’s top staffer.
The Department of Justice on Thursday announced a series of anti-fraud actions in Ohio as part of a broader effort to crack down on public fraud nationwide.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Small Business Administration Director Kelly Loeffler, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Director Dr. Mehmet Oz all participated in the press conference.
"Today, Ohio’s fraud-fighting team is uniting with us in historic ways to contribute uniquely to the fight against fraud," McDonald said.
Oz detailed a string of fraud findings involving illegitimate recipients of public funds for healthcare.
"Unfortunately, this area around Columbus is responsible for 1/3 of all of the $1.5B spent on home healthcare in Ohio... that's 3x what you would expect... it defies belief. Some of these buildings were vacant," he said.
Loeffler, meanwhile, announced the discovery of $1.1 billion in Paycheck Protection Program fraud and the suspension of more than 27,000 Ohio borrowers.
