Graham Platner’s rape allegation: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Democrats calling for Graham Platner to drop out of the Senate race following rape allegations.
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party spent months making one excuse after the opposite for disgraced US Senate candidate Graham Platner, and it labored (“Platner ‘Rape,’ ” July 7).
He turned Maine’s Democratic nominee. But now they’re calling for accountability after an ex-girlfriend’s rape allegation towards him.
What do these hard-core left-wingers need to have occur to Platner if he’s discovered guilty? Who would arrest him? Who would keep him faraway from society? Who would make sure the sufferer has closure? Because the ideology growing within the fashionable Democratic Party would stop all of these actions from happening.
It’s not a coincidence that a get together linked to the breakdown of the law would appeal to somebody with such critical accusations of legal habits.
Evan Grollman
Highland Park, NJ
Could Dems’ cowardice be more clear? An SS tattoo is suitable to our high-quality senators from New York, home to the one largest Jewish neighborhood within the United States and outdoors of Israel. However, as soon as they hear rape, they condemn him in a phony gesture of the Aristocracy.
So having tattooed a image advocating for the horrors dedicated towards Jews isn’t worthy of condemnation?
The bard mentioned conscience makes cowards of us all, however that assumes one has a conscience.
Elizabeth Schultz
Manhattan
So when Platner’s ballot numbers confirmed him main Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins by 10 factors, all of the Democratic politicians mentioned the get together had a giant tent, even welcoming the Nazi-tattooed accused sexual predator Platner. Then his ballot numbers began to drop and Sen. Collins was catching up. That’s when these shameful Democrats determined to consider all ladies.
Brenda Wang
Middletown, NJ
Let’s see: A Nazi tattoo is OK, assault allegations are OK, disparaging remarks about fight veterans are OK — however a rape allegation and now he’s not Dems’ “kind of man” anymore! The Democratic Party is a national embarrassment!
Jim Voltmer
Marion, NC
Democrats actually picked a beaut after they selected Platner as their savior to be their nominee to function the subsequent senator from Maine. If the Dem headhunters actually vetted Platner, with all his warts, I ponder who they turned down.
Walter Goldeski
East Brunswick NJ
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The Issue: Pres. Trump’s intervention with FIFA’s president and the reversal of Folarin Balogun’s pink card.
I didn’t suppose Folarin Balogun’s hit deserved a pink card, however what does it say about FIFA that it reversed a call primarily based on a cellphone call from the White House (“Trump’s pitch to FIFA,” July 7)?
FIFA, which has been accused of being corrupt prior to now, definitely seems to be even more corrupt now.
If our president can call FIFA and get it to change the cardboard, ought to one other nation’s president have the identical capacity? Would America have minded if one other nation’s chief — perhaps even a crew America would’ve needed to play — satisfied FIFA to change a call?
Edward Drossman
Manhattan
When it involves dishonorable conduct, there may be merely no backside for President Trump. He leaned on bootlicking FIFA President Gianni Infantino and was rewarded with a rescission of the pink card that disqualified Balogun from taking part in towards Belgium Monday in Seattle.
Infantino, whose own ethics are marginal if nonexistent, can be the person who invented a sham peace prize for the undeserving Trump. He has now entered the personal cabal of individuals prepared to lie, cheat or steal for Trump.
David Kahn
Boca Raton, Fla.
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