Platner Accuser Says He Stopped To ‘Apologize,’ Then Raped Her Anyway

Jenny Racicot, 41, said during a CNN interview that aired Monday that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, a Democrat, had stopped briefly to apologize while he was raping her.

Racicot described the scenario to CNN anchor Jake Tapper, claiming that Platner had appeared to be “blackout drunk” when he came into her house — and although he did not listen when she told him to stop, there were periods where he “came to” and apologized before going right back to what he was doing.

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Racicot explained that she and Platner had been texting each other on the evening of the alleged assault, and that she must have said something that he had believed to be an invitation. She said she had not meant it that way, but he said he was going to come over. According to Racicot, she said again that he should not come over, and he stopped responding — at which point she believed he had gotten the message.

It was about thirty minutes later that she said he showed up, entered her home through an unlocked door, and got on top of her. Racicot said she told him several times that she was “not into” what he was doing, but that he did not listen. She said that as the assault continued, Platner had a blank look in his eyes.

She said that in the struggle, one of them had knocked over a sewing kit that she kept near the couch — and when the contents hit the ground and scattered, that was the moment she began thinking that she should “comply” for her own safety.

“That was me recognizing that this wasn’t just like oh, hey, somebody showed up and I’m going to tell him to go home, like he was heavily intoxicated, had intentions with me, and wasn’t listening when I said no,” she claimed.

As the assault continued, she said he seemed to be going in and out of moments of lucidity — and even said that he “would apologize” before going right back to what he’d been doing.

Racicot said that once it was over, she sat in her bathroom for quite some time attempting to process what had happened. The hardest thing, she said, was realizing that he had been someone she trusted and had been involved with before, was that it “was consensual until it wasn’t.”

By the time she came out of the bathroom, she said that Platner had fallen asleep in her bed. Realizing that he had driven to her house drunk and not wanting to put him back on the road in that condition, she said she waited until he woke up and told him to leave. He said he did not remember anything that had happened the night before — and Racicot told him that nothing he had done that night had been acceptable, demanding that he leave.

“He just got up and got dressed and didn’t seem concerned,” she said. “He didn’t ask me a single question … How can somebody that you’ve been in some type of a relationship with for this long tells you to never speak to [them] again because of something that you did and you don’t even ask what you did?”

Racicot told Tapper that she had been torn on whether to come forward, in part because she is a Democrat and would like to see a Democrat win the Senate seat in Maine — but that she felt like she couldn’t stay silent any longer.