The New York Times lured one of Graham Platner’s victims, Lyndsey Fifield, to tell her story of Platner’s abuse. Only it was not to expose him but to set up one of his victims. They made it look like criticism of him was a right-wing conspiracy. That is how it is being used. The Times didn’t tell her entire story, just what they had to share after some publicized infighting.
They didn’t plan to put any of the disgusting story in, but, much to their chagrin, they had no choice. The outlet had to quell the infighting.
You can read her statement in the X post below, which explains the situation.
They used her to help Platner, going to her repeatedly for more anonymous on-the-record comments. They handpicked what they wanted and didn’t keep her name out of it despite their promises. And they watered down what they wanted, highlighting her comments.
Hillary told us to believe the woman. The New York Times wants you not to believe this woman, who also happens to be a Jewish woman who leans right politically.
I believe every word she says because that is who the NY Times is, and that is how many journalists are. I have experience to back up that statement. They will do and say anything for the story, and they are the most arrogant group of people I’ve ever met. They want to be the story too often. It’s not all of them, but it’s many.
Mrs. Fifield’s quotes from her statement are indented.
“It dawned on me that this really was a set-up all along. The journalists I trusted, who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell, methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.”
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She has accused him of “abusive, coercively controlling behavior” and has denounced the New York Times’ reporting of her and others’ relationships with him, calling the outlet’s published coverage “a setup all along.” Her story and the others were watered down.
“The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims,” Fifield wrote early Friday on X. “Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.”
Only two of his victims were named, Fifield being one. Mrs. Fifield spoke on condition of anonymity, and they published her name. She now has the crazed leftists demeaning her and Glenn Greenwood claiming she is a pathological liar, and no, he knows nothing of her.
She has become a target.
“Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy. I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the ‘cool girl’ or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham,” Fifield wrote on X. “I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist.”
The article made a point of saying she worked with right-wing think tanks, and we all know why they did that.
“In early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story,” Fifield recounted. “They said, but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.”
Having been a victim of the NY Times, I wish I could have shared that with her in time.
She trusted them and told the other women she trusted them.
“After the story went up, I began to ask them, ‘Wait, where are the stories from the other women?’ Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)? Fifield shared, Why does it say ‘nobody could corroborate’ when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?”
“Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local Democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?” Fifield’s tweets continued, noting that the journalists she spoke with told her their editors had said the evidence in question “was too much.”
“The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive—long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so,” Fifield additionally alleged.
Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.
I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.…
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) June 5, 2026