The NY Times was up here in Maine for 6 weeks. They have been on the Platner ex-gf beat for months & left no stone unturned. If there was anything else they would have put it in the story.
The icon in the bottom left means he didn't have this photo ready to go but instead Google searched like "Hunter Biden fucked up" or something. And I think that's beautiful.
The only thing that scares me is that this story is not bad enough to get him to drop out and doesn't have any particularly new characterization of him, but it could hurt him with moderates.
I just think AOC doesn’t have the stomach for politics or the presidency which requires getting into all kinds of morally gray areas. That’s why she’s so reticent outside of the far left sandbox.
Average Mamdani Scandal: here’s a video of Zohran saying “Palestine will be free and the NYPD must fall!!” at a rally in 2021
Average Abdul El-Sayed Scandal: He has two medical degrees, but can he call himself a “Doctor”???
Average Platner Scandal: here’s what Graham Platner texted his mistress while standing on the skeletons of dead civilians in Fallujah, according to his Reddit!!
Read it all and well bad isn't the kind of thing that is a death knell. The problem is it just adds to the drip-drip fear of future scandals that has consumed the Platner campaign. Does anyone actually believe this is the end?
It blows my mind that liberal supporters of Israel still just write this stuff off like "yeah those guys are terrorists" and "I don't support that" and "most Israelis don't support this" when it's stuff you simply cannot do without the state tacitly allowing it.
decided to dig into this and according to contemporary reporting, Hamawy wanted to help provide aid in Bosnia in the 1990s so he called Bosnia’s diplomats in the US, who *referred him to the BIF* which wasn’t known to be tied to AQ at the time. shockingly, Ari Fleischer is lying!