New reporting reveals that after months of remaining silent on Graham Platner and his scandals, Sherrod Brown only condemned Platner after Chuck Schumer and the Democrats’ Senate campaign arm gave Brown permission to do so.
“Sherrod Brown spent 32 years doing the radical left and Chuck Schumer’s bidding. This time is no different,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
Brown has refused to denounce every Graham Platner scandal, including:
- Multiple women accusing Platner of abuse, harassment, and threatening behavior.
- Telling rape victims to “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f*cked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”
- Using an active account on the “predator’s Paradise” app, Kik.
- Mocking a U.S. solider shot by the Taliban saying, “dumb motherf*cker didn’t deserve to live.”
- Calling rural white Americans racist and stupid.
- Had a Nazi tattoo that he referred to as “my Totenkopf” for years.
- Saying that cops are “opportunistic cowards” and “bastards.”
Brown conveniently condemned Platner only after his friend, Chuck Schumer, had finally abandoned him.
Read the timeline here or below.
…At 7:01 p.m., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., released a joint statement: “The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing—violence, abuse, and sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable.”
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[9:03pm] Sherrod Brown in Ohio agreed the allegations were “deeply disturbing,” and “he should drop out.” Haley Stevens in Michigan agreed, “I believe women. Graham Platner should drop out.”