A woman who accused Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner of toxic behavior when he dated her years ago accused the outlet that reported her allegations of manipulating the narrative in his favor. The New York Times published a story on Thursday containing allegations from Lyndsey Fifield and two other women who dated Plater, expressing concern that he was guilty of “unsettling” emotional abuse, consisting of volatile and toxic behavioral patterns. Three others who dated the Democratic Senate candidate praised him. Fifield, who reportedly dated Platner from 2013 to 2015, this week accused New York Times reporters Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer of twisting her story into a “gift” to her ex’s campaign.
“This really was a setup all along,” she wrote in a lengthy post to X. “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.”
Among Fifield’s complaints was an accusation that the journalists failed to include “any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office.”
