Wilson Meegs

I come off strong, but I mean well!

[Adam Mossoff @AdamMossoff]

When a college student (Austin Franco) at an ivy league university (@Cornell) can write to a potential employer, "I'm not interested in working for a Jew," and this employer is then viciously attacked online for sharing Franco's Jew hatred as an example of antisemitism, we're well past the tipping point of social acceptance of antisemitism in the U.S.

If you ever wondered what you would have done in 1933 Berlin, you're doing it now.

[Wilson Meegs @WMeegs]

@RonDeSantis It wouldn’t even be close!

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

DUSTIN MAY COMPLETE GAME ONE-HIT SHUTOUT 🔥

[Daniel Negreanu @RealKidPoker]

Romanian by blood. 🇷🇴

Canadian by birth. 🇨🇦

Finally, thankful to America for taking me in. 🇺🇸

There is a reason so many desperately want to come to the US, and I’m truly grateful that I was given the opportunity to make the land of opportunity my home.

[Wilson Meegs @WMeegs]

@RedbirdRiot

[TexasTamie @TexasTamieK]

Good morning

[Wilson Meegs @WMeegs]

@LUFC1992_v2 Get some bbq in Saint Louis!!

[KNBR @KNBR]

Kuip: "It may be more than 'tarps off' if Eldridge knocks one out of here."

Kruk: "I'm gonna hold you to it. Time to drop trou, hog out."

DROP TROU. HOG OUT. 😤

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

I feel a little like Forrest Gump... but I was also on the flight in Bosnia when Hillary Clinton claimed we "landed under sniper fire."
We didn't.
She didn't.
The reporting I did on this for CBS Evening News led the broadcast two nights in a row.

[Wilson Meegs @WMeegs]

@mrojaycutler Five Star Burger in Clayton, Missouri is the best burger I’ve ever had

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

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.

Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me.

But of course he knew it was me.

What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.

I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.

But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

[Wilson Meegs @WMeegs]

@freedomfromlib @lyndseyfifield Literally no one corroborated Fords story. There was zero evidence they had ever met or even been in the same room together.

[Luke Rodriguez 🇺🇸 🎗️ 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @LukeRodriguez75]

Eric Swalwelll spent over a decade building relationships, serving in government, etc and his entire campaign burned down in about 48 hours. Everyone abandoned him

Platner is just some random dude with a Nazi tattoo lying for disability checks and so Dems are MAGA levels loyal?

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Idk what he knew about the tattoo when he got it, seems plausible he didn’t know much. But it's highly implausible he didn't learn about it at some point before he ran for office, and there are a lot of accounts that contradict his narrative.

[Wilson Meegs @WMeegs]

@CurtisHouck So abusing women is fine if you’re an alcoholic and don’t remember it? Huh?

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

So If I'm hearing this right, Graham Platner's defense is that even as a veteran he had no idea what his tattoo meant, but his ex-girlfriend was a secret Nazi history buff and knew what the tattoo was but never bothered to mention it to him in two years of dating?

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop.

0/24,000

A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000.

Astronomically small probability of happening.

Impossible.

California no longer even hides it.

Doors need to be kicked in.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

I’ve heard of this guy as a dark and imbalanced character for years. Women know that special kind of friend’s ex whose full-ass name you know long after they dated bc of the badness, and then he runs for Senate, and you’re like “wait, THAT GUY?!” And it’s hard to speak up about a guy like that, who has quite a bit of power and seeks more, but my friend Lyndsey’s accusations are specific and detailed about what happened and didn’t, backed by physical diaries and texts from long before he ran. They confirm that a man with a Nazi tattoo does indeed have a bunch of bad decisionmaking and impulse control problems and his behavior can be more than unsettling. If he’s healing, which last week’s story doesn’t indicate, he should do it somewhere other than the Senate.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

I like the idea that he was, by his own admission, on a drunken PTSD-exacerbated blacking-out bender for much of his adulthood, but can definitively say this. Interesting.

[Wilson Meegs @WMeegs]

@SenMcConnell @McConnellPress Fuck you! Just retired you stupid POS!!