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MS NOW host Chris Hayes dropped a doozy of a sexting question on controversial Senate candidate Graham Platner (D-ME) when he asked him if he confirmed the ages of the women involved. Platner has weathered a blizzard of controversy over a blizzard of past comments and a tattoo that he claims he did not know had Nazi connotations when he got it, and has since covered. On the heels of a story containing allegations of sexually explicit texts sent early in his marriage, Platner now faces a bombshell New York Times report alleging misconduct with women. On Thursday night’s edition of MS NOW’s All In with Chris Hayes, Platner sat for a marathon grilling on the controversies roiling his campaign. In one exchange, Hayes pursued the sexting allegations for a solid six minutes plus despite Platner’s lengthy shot at sidestepping it, and concluded by asking him to confirm “these were adult women”: HAYES: Can we talk — I want to talk about the piece that came out before this, which was about the — what your wife had alerted your internal campaign folks to. And — and just to sort of stipulate, to get out ahead, that like, I think some people view this as a real betrayal by your former campaign manager and that — that may be true. And I understand and I also watch the video that your wife put out, which I found incredibly compelling and moving, about what you’ve worked through. But just to be clear again on the details here, and there’s obviously two subtexts here, right? This is you facing Maine voters in a primary and also a general election that’s going to happen. We all know that, right? We’re all on the same page. Were you sending sexually explicit messages to other women back in 2023-2024 as reported in the piece? PLATNER: So this is the first time in my life that Amy and I’s marriage has been the interest of people besides Amy and I. HAYES: Yes. PLATNER: And it’s — it’s definitely a bit jarring, a bit strange. It’s also a marriage that is very strong and that I do believe we deserve some privacy in. I will just say this, I — at the beginning of our marriage, I made mistakes and Amy held me accountable for them. And we worked through them. And the work that we did made our marriage significantly stronger. And who we… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Graham Platner Accuser Says the NY Times Betrayed Her in Stunning Statement: ‘...
LEFT: Graham Platner (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File) RIGHT: The New York Times (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) Lyndsey Fifield, the ex-girlfriend of Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, accused The New York Times of betraying her in a stunning Friday morning statement. Fifield, who dated Platner between 2013 and 2015, offered the following account of his behavior in a bombshell Times story published on Thursday: Mr. Platner could be rough with her, Ms. Fifield said, particularly when they were drinking, leaving her shaken and sometimes afraid. In the interviews, Ms. Fifield grappled with how to process her experiences. She was quick to note that he “never hit me, he never punched me.” But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders —sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car. During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.” Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning. “It hurt,” she said. But she added: “It didn’t cause an injury, it didn’t break my arm.” Fifield also alleged that Platner, who is challenging Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in the Pine Tree State, referred to his controversial, Nazi-linked chest tattoo as “my Totenkopf,” and fantasized about raping an intruder “to show them that I’m dominant,” as opposed to “in a gay way.” On Friday, though, Fifield expressed her dissatisfaction with the story, which she claimed she had been misled about. “Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy. I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the ‘cool girl’ or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham. I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past,” she wrote on X. “Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Corporate Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Reap $50B in Government Contracts, Watchd...
(AP Photo/Jon Elswick) More than half of the publicly identified corporate donors funding President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project have received federal contracts worth more than $50 billion since contributing to the effort, according to a government watchdog group. Public Citizen found that 14 of the 27 publicly known corporate donors to the $400 million ballroom project have secured additional federal business in the months since Trump moved forward with plans to replace the East Wing, according to The Washington Post. The nonprofit also reported that many of those same companies facing federal enforcement actions have seen investigations eased or suspended during Trump’s second term. Jon Golinger, a public policy advocate at Public Citizen and one of the report’s authors, told The Post: “These giant corporations aren’t funding the Trump ballroom fiasco out of the goodness of their hearts. They have massive interests before the federal government, and they hope to curry favor with, and receive favorable treatment from, the Trump administration.” Defense contractor Lockheed Martin received the largest share of new government business identified in the report, with roughly $43.8 billion in new or expanded contract funding. Booz Allen Hamilton followed with more than $4.2 billion, while Palantir received just over $1 billion. Other companies cited include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Caterpillar, and T-Mobile. Public Citizen also found that 16 of the 27 known donors are involved in federal enforcement matters or have seen government scrutiny reduced. The list includes antitrust cases involving Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Nvidia, as well as labor-related disputes involving Google, Lockheed Martin, and Meta. In a comment to The Post, the White House rejected suggestions that donor contributions and federal contracts are linked. “The same critics who are alleging fake conflicts of interests, would also complain if American taxpayers were footing the bill for these long-overdue renovations,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said. “The donors for the White House ballroom project represent a wide array of great American companies and generous individuals, all of whom are contributing to make the People’s House better for generations to come,” he added. Questions over transparency continue to surround the project, The Post reported. The administration has disclosed only 21 corporate donors, while journalists later identified six additional contributors.The post Corporate Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Reap $50B in Government Contracts, Watchdog Finds first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Trashes Preservation Advocate Trying to Block ‘Desperately Needed’ Whi...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon President Donald Trump unloaded on a preservation advocate bringing a legal challenge against the development of his White House ballroom project in a late-night Truth Social post Thursday that called the project “desperately needed.” The ballroom has become one of the president’s most frequently discussed projects since he ordered the demolition of the White House East Wing in October and began construction. In Thursday’s post, Trump described the $200 million project as “coming along fantastically well” and “at a much higher quality than I ever promised,” adding that it includes “the DronePort, and ALL of the other many Military elements, which are all vital for National Security.” “It is desperately needed, and will be very special!” the president wrote, before pivoting to attack Alison Hoagland, a National Trust for Historic Preservation board member and a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to block the ballroom’s development. “The woman that sued me has absolutely no STANDING to do so,” Trump wrote. “This should not even be a case, and it is highly damaging to our Country.” He went on to describe Hoagland as “highly litigious” and a “serial plaintiff,” questioning her involvement in preservation-related litigation elsewhere in Washington. The lawsuit argues the project would cause aesthetic harm and alter the historic character of the White House grounds. Trump rejected those claims, insisting the challenge lacks merit as construction on the ballroom continues. Read Trump’s post in full below: The Ballroom is coming along fantastically well. It’s on time, and under budget (Unlike the Federal Reserve Building, where “Too Late” has done a terrible job of Cost and Time Control!), and at a much higher quality than I ever promised, including the DronePort, and ALL of the other many Military elements, which are all vital for National Security, that are being built throughout the whole integrated, cohesive Project. It is desperately needed, and will be very special! The woman that sued me has absolutely no STANDING to do so. This should not even be a case, and it is highly damaging to our Country. She is highly litigious, a serial plaintiff, and said she was bothered in her walking by the White House, but didn’t state her involvement in distant other places. Why then is she involved in litigation on other Developments in far distant parts of D.C. Is she walking there, too? How is she walking on a totally… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Senate Approves $70B Funding for ICE, Border Patrol After All-Night ‘Slush Fun...
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite The Senate handed President Donald Trump a huge legislative victory early Friday, approving a bill that would inject an additional $70 billion into immigration enforcement agencies central to his administration’s mass deportation agenda. The measure passed 52-47 largely along party lines at 5 a.m. ET, with Democrats unanimously opposed and one Republican, Lisa Murkowski (AK), breaking ranks. The legislation now heads to the House, where lawmakers are expected to take it up next week. The funding package would dramatically expand resources for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol over the next three years, bolstering an immigration crackdown that has become a defining feature of Trump’s second term. The money would come on top of roughly $100 billion in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enforcement funding approved by Republicans last year that remains unspent. The final vote followed a marathon Senate session dominated as much by intraparty Republican tensions as by immigration policy itself. Democrats sought to force votes on a series of amendments targeting other controversial Trump initiatives, including efforts to block federal funding for the proposed White House ballroom and to eliminate the disputed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that critics say could be used to compensate violent January 6 rioters. Neither of those amendments, however, was adopted. The debate exposed divisions within the Republican conference, where Democratic attempts to strip funding tied to the compensation fund drew support from several Republican senators, although the proposal ultimately failed. Despite the internal disputes, Republicans ultimately united behind the broader immigration package, delivering Trump a major policy win and advancing one of his administration’s highest-profile priorities in funding ICE.The post Senate Approves $70B Funding for ICE, Border Patrol After All-Night ‘Slush Fund’ Debate first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Reporter Says Former GOP Congressman Threatened Him With ‘A Gun in Your Faceâ€...
Nathan Howard/Sipa USA via AP Images An NPR reporter said on Thursday that former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) went on a bizarre tirade against him that included the words “a gun in your face.” On Tuesday, NPR’s Bobby Allyn reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Santos for possible insider trading. The probe centers on wagers made on the betting website Kalshi, where in February, millions of dollars were being wagered on whether or not Santos would attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. In October, Trump commuted Santos’s seven-year prison sentence for wire fraud and identity theft after the ex-congressman served less than three months. A month after he was first elected to Congress in 2022, Santos was revealed to have lied extensively about his career, education, and other biographical details, such as his false claim that he was Jewish. “I’m going to be there for the State of the Union in the gallery, guys,” Santos said in a video posted on social media the day before the State of the Union. But Santos was a no-show. Allyn reported that Santos had placed bets on himself not appearing. “Kalshi detected Santos’ trades, froze his account and referred the case to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice, which both opened investigations into Santos, according to a person familiar with Kalshi’s investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly,” Allyn reported. On Thursday, Allyn reported that a furious Santos called him earlier in the day. “I was winding down my work day here in Los Angeles when my phone rang at 5:37 p.m. from a blocked number,” the lede read. “It was former Congressman George Santos. He was boiling with rage.” Santos alleged Allyn’s report was rife with inaccuracies. The California-based reporter asked if he could record the call, but Santos refused. (California law requires all parties to consent to being recorded.) Allyn said at one point in their conversation, Santos said the story would “get you a gun in your face”: I asked him who his lawyers are, and he refused to answer. I questioned whether he really does have attorneys. He replied: “I’m George f*cking Santos, of course I have a legal team.” He then proceeded to name-call and attack the reputation of NPR, the kind of invective that’s common when reporting on people who try to discredit reporters and news organizations for stories they… [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
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