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Platner campaign rocked with damning allegations from another ex-lover as Senate race heats up: report
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A day after Graham Platner became the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, a woman took to social media to allege that she briefly dated Platner in 2021, recounting stories of having met him on the Tinder dating app, his infidelity and how Platner’s story about his infamous chest tattoo had changed over time.
«I am stepping forward as a person who has experienced lying and manipulation by his hand to lend my voice to what is a growing number of women who have been wronged by this man in one way or another,» a woman with the X handle, 420mercymain69, wrote in a long X statement on Thursday.
«It is hideous,» the woman, who claimed she was attracted to Platner’s Tinder profile because he was «hot and he was a leftist,» said in her X statement.
The new details add another layer to Platner’s allegedly deceptive conduct towards romantic partners and grows the pile of scandals that have trailed his campaign.
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner participated in a television interview on May 1, 2026, in Portland, Maine, following a campaign event with the Maine AFL-CIO. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)
Platner, who officially became the Democratic nominee to challenge incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, earlier this week, has grappled with his resurfaced past — receiving criticism for making off-color remarks on sexual abuse, race and terror and allegedly threatening behavior toward women.
According to 420mercymain69, a native of the Maryland area, the two of them started talking on Tinder in Feb. 2021 and started dating until mid-July 2021.
When approached about his Totenkopf tattoo, a symbol used by the Nazi SS, the author claims Platner said that he had gotten it in ignorance but that he had kept it as a reminder that the U.S. was viewed as «the bad guys» in many parts of the world.
«A sob story of monumental proportions that only further solidified my perception of his ideology,» the author remembered.
«But surprisingly enough not the one he gave to the people of Maine,» she continued. «And I do mean genuinely surprising because from the moment he announced his campaign, that is exactly what I expected to hear when the truth inevitably came out.»
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Graham Platner with his wife Amy Gertner earlier this month. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
When the tattoo surfaced late last year, he had said he wasn’t familiar with its Nazi associations.
«Graham’s repeatedly said he picked a skull-and-crossbones tattoo off a wall in Croatia to commemorate surviving Ramadi and his friends who were killed there,» a spokesperson from the Platner campaign told Fox News. «Graham has also since covered up the tattoo, and answered countless questions about it.»
«Unlike Susan Collins, who refuses to take questions on her disastrous vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, gut rural hospitals, and supported every foreign war of the last thirty years,» the spokesperson continued.
Aside from the tattoo, 420mercymain69 also accused Platner of several instances of relational infidelity.
Platner and the post’s author parted ways after she discovered from a mutual friend that he was allegedly seeing someone else while the two were still dating.
«He was talking about a woman he had blown it with, saying she was ‘the love of his life.’ I was naïve and probably a little too starry-eyed from my own good, but as a person who had only been on a handful of dates with him and f—– around a bit, I was smart enough to know he wasn’t talking about me,» the woman claimed..
«I took the hint,» she continued.
She claimed that, after leaving the relationship, she discovered Platner had been engaged to a woman named «Jen» when the two began conversing.
She was also told that Platner was allegedly cheating on her with a third woman.
«She had walked in on him having sex with another person at a wedding they were at in D.C. That mutual friend also advised that he was trying to repair things with this woman and asked me if I was going to seek her out to tell her,» she said on X.
In summarizing her experience, which was reportedly confirmed by the New York Post, the author said she did not intend to derail Platner’s campaign, but that she shared concerns about his character. Fox News Digital could not independently confirm the claims from the alleged ex-girlfriend.
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Graham Platner addresses the crowd at a YMCA in Blue Hill, Maine, on June 9, 2026, after winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the election. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)
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«There will be more information that comes out,» she claimed.
«If I were a Maine voter seeing the things I’m seeing, I wouldn’t have voted for him, personal experience notwithstanding, because I do not trust him. Why, after all that has come out, would I?»
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El bloqueo del estrecho de Ormuz, el posible cierre de una vía clave en el Mar Rojo y las amenazas de Trump disparan el precio del petróleo
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Mamdani slow to respond to suspected antisemitic stabbing as Hochul, other NY officials condemn attack
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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani remained silent for serveal hours on what officials described as an antisemitic stabbing in New York City on Thursday afternoon, choosing to instead post about his millionaire housing tax initiative — even as the attack drew attention from other state officials.
«I have been briefed on today’s horrifying stabbings on the Upper West Side, where an Asian man and a Jewish man were attacked. According to witness and victim statements, the perpetrator yelled «Allahu Akbar» during both attacks. I am relieved that both victims are in stable condition,» Mamdani wrote in a statement.
«The NYPD responded immediately and arrested Raul Morales in connection with both assaults—and I am grateful to the officers for their swift response.»
The delayed response from Mamdani played into the fears of some observers that his critical stances towards Israel, views shared by many progressives, are feeding into hesitations about supporting Jewish communities in the U.S.
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Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, during an announcement in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (John Lamparski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, another member of the New York City Council, more pointedly laid blame with Mamdani.
«According to credible reports I received, the attacker was yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ during his attempted murder. I pray for the speedy recovery of the victims. [Mamdani,] you got blood on your hands,» she wrote.
Authorities reported that a 57-year-old man was reportedly attacked near West 84th Street and Central Park West just after 1:30 p.m. local time. He was found conscious and alert with a stab wound to his back. He was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
Investigators later found another 50-year-old man nearby with a stab wound to his torso. He was also conscious and alert and was taken to a nearby hospital.
City officials described the violence as an «antisemitic stabbing,» though police have not yet identified a motive or said whether the attacks are being investigated as a hate crime.
Raul Morales, the suspect, is in custody, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) told Fox News Digital.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s video admitting that he lacks the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did little to ease Jewish leaders’ concerns. (NYC Mayor’s Office via YouTube/Handout via Reuters)
Almost immediately, the incident drew alarm and condemnation from observers, expressing dismay at another instance of violence against the Jewish community in New York City.
«Disgusted by what appears to be another senseless attack on New Yorkers simply because they’re Jewish,» New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a post to X.
«While we await additional details to be confirmed, we know that what is happening in our city is abhorrent. The fear in the Jewish community is real. Every New Yorker deserves to feel safe in their neighborhood, regardless of their faith or identity.»
«While we await additional details to be confirmed, we know that what is happening in our city is abhorrent. The fear in the Jewish community is real. Every New Yorker deserves to feel safe in their neighborhood, regardless of their faith or identity,» Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, wrote in a post to X
«A man yelling ‘allahu akbar’ stabbed a man in a kippah at 86th and Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side at 1:30 pm today, then likely stabbed someone else at 84th and Central Park West. Has apparently been caught. On the Jewish day of mourning. In Zohran Mamdani’s city,» another observer wrote.
Even as the incident captured attention online, Mamdani remained notably silent on the attack. Instead, he made a post on his recent housing tax plan, a strategy to dissuade wealthy New Yorkers from purchasing and keeping an outsized number of residences.
«If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you’ve got mail. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon,» Mamdani wrote at 3:55, almost two and a half hours after the attack.
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In the first quarter of 2026, the New York Police Department has received 146 hate crime complaints and made 71 arrests, according to police data — an uptick from 137 complaints and 51 arrests in the first quarter of 2025.
Mamdani’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether factors behind the scenes had caused a delay in response.
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El precio del barril de petróleo vuelve a subir, mientras la guerra en Medio Oriente se extiende y jaquea a la economía mundial
Mientras el precio del petróleo siguió subiendo en los mercados internacionales, la guerra en Medio Oriente se extiende a nuevos frentes y amenaza con repercusiones para la economía global con la ofensiva de los rebeldes de Yemen, aliados de Irán, contra buques sauditas en el mar Rojo.
En ese escenario, el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, amenazó con un “gran castigo militar” a Irán y a los rebeldes hutíes de Yemen si lanzan nuevos ataques.
El barril de crudo brent para entrega en septiembre subió 6 dólares en menos de 24 horas al pasar de los 94 dólares en los que cerró el miércoles a hasta los 100,69 dólares que tocó este jueves mediante un alza de más del 7,03%.
Por su parte, el West Texas Intermediate (WTI), de referencia en Estados Unidos, también subió el 4,92%, hasta los 90,95 dólares, mientras que el gas natural TTF caía un 1,3%, y el megavatio/hora tocó los 61,75 euros.
El fuerte repunte del precio del crudo se produjo después de que milicianos hutíes respaldados por Teherán reivindicaran ataques contra dos petroleros sauditas en el mar Rojo. Esta ofensiva abrió un nuevo punto de conflicto en otra importante vía comercial del crudo en el mundo cuando se entra en el decimotercer día de ofensiva de Estados Unidos contra Irán pese al acuerdo alcanzado en junio.
El caos se apodera del estrecho de Ormuz
Las hostilidades se reanudaron a principios de este mes tras un alto el fuego que duró apenas semanas, en una espiral que volvió a sumir a la región en un caos por el control del vital estrecho de Ormuz.
El conflicto se extendió al mar Rojo esta semana después de que los rebeldes de Yemen declararan un bloqueo de los puertos de Arabia Saudita y después afirmaran que atacaron a dos petroleros sauditas. Niños juegan en la playa en el estrecho de Ormuz, mientras detrás se observa una columna de humo (Foto: AP)
El secretario general de la ONU, Antonio Guterres, afirmó en una reunión del Consejo de Seguridad que la situación en Medio Oriente “está fuera de control”. “Una crisis alimenta a otra. Una escalada desencadena la siguiente”, declaró.
Mientras tanto, Jordania y Kuwait informaron haber interceptado proyectiles, mientras que el ejército de Irán y su Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica anunciaron golpes a objetivos militares estadounidenses en ambos países.
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“Las represalias de las fuerzas armadas continuarán mientras sigan los ataques de Estados Unidos contra la infraestructura y las zonas costeras del país”, dijo el portavoz de las fuerzas armadas iraníes, Mohamad Akraminia, según la televisión estatal.
Ataques en el mar Rojo
Estas hostilidades se produjeron tras la duodécima noche consecutiva de ataques de Estados Unidos contra instalaciones militares de la república islámica.
El miércoles, Trump advirtió que su país bombardeará la infraestructura civil iraní cada vez que Teherán dispare contra buques en Ormuz, dada su importancia en el comercio global de hidrocarburos.
El canciller iraní, Abás Araqchi, respondió que Teherán responderá de la misma manera: “Nuestra doctrina de defensa es clara: ojo por ojo”.
Los medios estatales iraníes informaron este jueves que un ataque estadounidense mató a dos personas en Shalamcheh, en la frontera de la república islámica con Irak. También reportaron que dos misiles estadounidenses impactaron en Bushehr, sede de la única planta nuclear civil del país y blanco frecuente de Washington.
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Los hutíes yemenitas afirmaron que atacaron el miércoles con misiles y drones dos petroleros sauditas en el mar Rojo, el Encelia y el Layla, y concretaron así su amenaza de bloquear a Arabia Saudita en esas aguas que sirven de vía alterna a Ormuz.
Riad confirmó que el Encelia fue alcanzado, sin hacer comentarios sobre el otro petrolero. Aún no está claro hasta qué punto los hutíes podrían implementar un bloqueo, pero la amenaza podría agravar el impacto del cierre que Irán mantiene en Ormuz.
Allí la Guardia Revolucionaria afirmó este jueves que impidió el paso a tres petroleros, mientras Washington y Teherán compiten por el control de esta ruta por la que transitaba alrededor de una quinta parte del petróleo mundial antes de la guerra.
(Con información de EFE y AFP)
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