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In reply to the discussion: Maine Is Reminiscent of the Al Franken Fiasco [View all]Nanjeanne
(6,690 posts)Platner has not done:
Committed a felony.
Assaulted anyone..
Raped someone.
Trafficked a human being.
Trafficked drugs.
Fucked a child.
Appeared on the Epstein client list.
Accepted gold bars from a foreign government.
Driven a car off a bridge and left someone to drown.
Built a career helping corporations figure out how to fire people more efficiently.
Maintained a relationship with a suspected foreign intelligence operative while sitting on an intelligence committee.
Siphoned public money into offshore accounts.
Lobbied for a foreign government while holding elected office.
Voted to fund a genocide and called it foreign policy.
Taken unlimited donor money from the same class of people he claims to oppose.
Voted to cut Social Security while accepting checks from private equity.
Voted to deregulate the financial industry and then accepted speaking fees from the financial industry.
Voted for the Iraq War and then pivoted to calling himself an antiwar candidate.
Used their office to enrich their family members.
Been credibly accused of insider trading while serving on a committee that oversees the industry they traded in.
And more