The Issue: Democrats calling for Graham Platner to drop out of the Senate race following rape allegations.
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party spent months making one excuse after the other for disgraced US Senate candidate Graham Platner, and it worked (“Platner ‘Rape,’ ”July 7).
He became Maine’s Democratic nominee. But now they are calling for accountability after an ex-girlfriend’s rape allegation against him.
What do these hard-core left-wingers want to have happen to Platner if he’s found guilty? Who would arrest him? Who would keep him removed from society? Who would make sure the victim has closure? Because the ideology growing in the modern Democratic Party would prevent all of these actions from taking place.
It’s not a coincidence that a party connected to the breakdown of the law would attract someone with such serious accusations of criminal behavior.
Evan Grollman
Highland Park, NJ
Could Dems’ cowardice be more clear? An SS tattoo is acceptable to our fine senators from New York, home to the single largest Jewish community in the United States and outside of Israel. However, once they hear rape, they condemn him in a phony gesture of nobility.
So having tattooed a symbol advocating for the horrors committed against Jews is not worthy of condemnation?
The bard said conscience makes cowards of us all, but that assumes one has a conscience.
Elizabeth Schultz
Manhattan
So when Platner’s poll numbers showed him leading Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins by 10 points, all the Democratic politicians said the party had a large tent, even welcoming the Nazi-tattooed accused sexual predator Platner. Then his poll numbers started to drop and Sen. Collins was catching up. That’s when these shameful Democrats decided to believe all women.
Brenda Wang
Middletown, NJ
Let’s see: A Nazi tattoo is OK, assault allegations are OK, disparaging remarks about combat veterans are OK — but a rape allegation and now he’s not Dems’ “kind of man” anymore! The Democratic Party is a national embarrassment!
Jim Voltmer
Marion, NC
Democrats really picked a beaut when they chose Platner as their savior to be their nominee to serve as the next senator from Maine. If the Dem headhunters truly vetted Platner, with all his warts, I wonder who they turned down.
Walter Goldeski
East Brunswick NJ
The Issue: Pres. Trump’s intervention with FIFA’s president and the reversal of Folarin Balogun’s red card.
I didn’t think Folarin Balogun’s hit deserved a red card, but what does it say about FIFA that it reversed a call based on a phone call from the White House (“Trump’s pitch to FIFA,”July 7)?
FIFA, which has been accused of being corrupt in the past, certainly looks even more corrupt now.
If our president can call FIFA and get it to change the card, should another country’s president have the same ability? Would America have minded if another country’s leader — maybe even a team America would’ve had to play — convinced FIFA to change a call?
Edward Drossman
Manhattan
When it comes to dishonorable conduct, there is simply no bottom for President Trump. He leaned on bootlicking FIFA President Gianni Infantino and was rewarded with a rescission of the red card that disqualified Balogun from playing against Belgium Monday in Seattle.
Infantino, whose own ethics are marginal if nonexistent, is also the man who invented a sham peace prize for the undeserving Trump. He has now entered the personal cabal of persons willing to lie, cheat or steal for Trump.
David Kahn
Boca Raton, Fla.
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