Graham Platner told of strange dreams about raping home intruders, ex-girlfriend claims
Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner used to have strange dreams about raping home intruders — and he did it while watching TV and sharpening an axe, according to his ex-girlfriend.
“He said this a lot: If anybody ever breaks in here, I’m going to rape them,” said Lyndsey Fifield, 40, who dated the Maine candidate from 2013 to 2015.
“He was like, ‘I’m going to rape them to show them that I’m in control,'” she told the New York Times, adding that Platner would make it clear that he wouldn’t rape those who entered the shoes “in a sexual way, not in a gay way.”
Those are the latest claims to rock Platner’s campaign since he announced he would run against longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in August, and a series of lewd online comments he made disparaging women, rape victims, minorities, police and veterans in October.
He was also found to have a Nazi “death’s head” tattoo on his chest that he got while in the Marines, and was exposed last weekend for messaging women on a dating app while married.
And on Thursday, Fifield became one of three ex-girlfriends to tell the Times that all of that behavior is similar to what they saw when they dated Platner years ago.
Fifield said Platner’s talk about the rape would leave him unsettled – a feeling heightened by the gun he often left lying around his apartment, and the sharp wood ax he sharpened while watching TV and expressing strangely violent thoughts.
He even talked about killing people he considered a threat, and how rape was an act of power, Fifield said.
Those claims were just a few of the shocking accounts Fifield and two of Platner’s ex-girlfriends told about him, some describing him as chronically unfaithful and misogynistic — and well aware of the Nazi tattoo he sported, despite later publicly insisting he didn’t know what it was.
Fifield even said he sometimes grabbed her by the shoulders during arguments – hard enough to leave marks – and once twisted her arm before pinning her in a room and preventing her from leaving.
Platner “vehemently” disputed Fifield’s accounts of physical combat, but admitted that some of his behavior was questionable at the time – citing PTSD he endured from his combat as a Marine in Afghanistan.
“I’ve been open about the hardest time in my life when I was struggling with undiagnosed PTSD, self-medicating with alcohol, and I was far from a perfect boyfriend,” she told The Post in a statement.
“I take responsibility for all of that, and I wish I could be better. Any portrayal beyond that is false, and I believe it’s politically motivated,” he added. “Let’s be clear: This is a lifelong GOP employee dedicated to electing Republicans.”
Fifield – who spent time working on Republican campaigns – insisted that she would have told her account of her affair with Platner regardless of which party she was running for.
