Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson ripped the New York Times over its Thursday report detailing disturbing accounts from several of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriends.“There is a sense of confusion and betrayal right now about the nature of this report, what was included and what was not,” Benson said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom Friday.Benson said he knows one of the women in the report, Lyndsey Fifield, through a friend group.
Fifield recalled Platner’s unsettling behavior from when they dated. The New York Times identified her as a conservative, and said she recalled him as “cavalierly contemptuous of women’s emotions, of our ‘weakness,’” according to the report.
Fifield fired back at the paper for downplaying the story by posting on X Friday.
“Why does it say ‘nobody could corroborate’ when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?” Fifield said. “Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking ‘do not call Graham’ after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).”
“Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?” she continued. “The editors said it was too much, they explained.”
