Graham Platner says allegations of physical abuse of former partner ‘are simply not true’ – as it happened

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner rejects new allegations of abusive behavior During a live interview with MS NOW on Thursday, Graham Platner flatly denied having ever been physically abusive to a former romantic partner, as she alleged to the New York Times. The Maine Senate candidate made the denial to Chris Hayes after the host read him the published allegations from Lyndsey Fifield, who claimed that, during one argument, he “twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side”. On another occasion, she told the paper, he “yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument”. Platner said that neither of those incidents took place and suggested that Fifield, a Republican political operative, was lying to damage his campaign. “There are some allegations in this piece that are simply not true. Anything alleging physicality, anything alleging I knew what my tattoo was, these are the statements of somebody politically motivated,” Platner said. “That is not true.” Platner also said that Fifield was lying when she said that he knew that the skull-and-crossbones tattoo he got in 2007 was a Nazi symbol, used by t