The two reporters on the New York Times Platner story — Katie Glueck and Lisa Lere — are the same reporters who described Zohran Mamdani's July 2025 win as a "Spiritual Kristallnacht."
CNN: Platner’s campaign just announced raising over $200,000 in a single day following the New York Times article — their best fundraising day since Janet Mills dropped out of the Maine Senate race
The fact that the most bloodthirsty Zionist mouthpieces, from Van Jones to Fetterman, are running with similar narratives about this tabloid trash should tell you all you need to know about it. This is a hit piece, motivated by Platner's strong stance on cutting aid to Israel.
This was apparent but good of Mandel to confirm it: the previous anonymous claim about the tattoo was from the GOP operative, according to her friend Bethany Mandel.
So this new claim is not backing up another previous claim, it’s the same one from the same person. Bethany says she was trying to tank his campaign and thought it would work, but it didn’t, so now she is doing this.
Kyle Kulinski on Platner: “If you’re a so-called liberal and feeding into this smear campaign, let me be clear: you are a fucking traitor and you don’t give a shit about taking down MAGA. You’re a useful idiot for the fascist war criminal pedophile rapist that is Donald Trump”