Politico dropped a new Graham Platner bombshell Monday afternoon that ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot alleged the Maine Democrat senatorial candidate “forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections.” MS NOW surprisingly was on it within 30 minutes and made clear that, aside from one guest arguing he stay in because Brett Kavanaugh “raped” Christine Blasey Ford, they have had enough of their now-former darling. Notably and separately, The New York Times spoke to Racicot for a June 4 story, but reportedly refused to include this allegation despite Racicot volunteering that information. But back on MSNOW, their coverage began with The Moment as host Katy Tur had congressional correspondent Mychael Schnell summarize the Politico piece and remind viewers Platner had a week from Monday to drop out for Maine Democrats to replace him on the November ballot. “The sentiment that I was hearing was..Democrats didn’t see him as the perfect candidate, that there were these concerns about these indiscretions and these — these poor reports. But at the end of the day, Maine is such an important pickup opportunity for them, and he was their candidate. So, they were letting it go by the wayside,” she added. The first real sign of trouble on this liberal flagship cable network was The Weeknight co-host and longtime Swamp nepobaby Luke Russert, who said “the person who made the accusations was very conflicted about coming forward” because she’s a fellow progressive. Because of that, he argued, “I don’t see how he can be the nominee for senator in Maine for the Democratic Party.” MSNOW host Luke Russert on the Politico article about Graham Platner: “I don’t see how he can be the nominee for senator in Maine for the Democratic Party.” “Well, I think something that jumped out to me in the article, which I just read, is that the person who made the… pic.twitter.com/BSOMDxgZLg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 “I think what you have here, though, is a pickup opportunity is incredibly important in Maine for the party if they want to get control of the Senate...but now is looking that it’s significantly worse than what was advertised, and especially for a party that was so intertwined with Me Too, and believing women, it looks very hypocritical if there is not, I think, a real examination of him moving forward,” he concluded. New York Times columnist Charles Blow went in the other direction with a serious, double-dose of whataboutism. Once he deployed standard platitudes that Racicot deserves to say whatever it is she wants, Blow whined “Democrats and Republicans are playing by a completely separate, separate rulebooks [sic]” because “Donald Trump was found liable of sexually abusing a woman” and “Christine Blasey Ford gave, I thought, compelling testimony against Brett Kavanaugh about what she said — she was raped.” NYT columnist Charles Blow DEFENDS Graham Platner staying in the race after the Politico story alleging sexual assault, arguing the GOP has stuck behind Kavanaugh despite Blasey Ford’s “compelling testimony” that “she was raped”.... “Well, the first thing I always want to say in… pic.twitter.com/LQssxeKB38 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 Going to Deadline: White House, fill-in host Antonia Hylton solemnly began with the “deeply disturbing new report, published in the last hour about Graham Platner, is shaking up the crucial U.S. Senate race in Maine” with a “new bombshell” in Politico. Hylton’s panel consisted of Schnell as well as former fellow The Weekend: Prime co-host Ayman Mohyeldin and far-left pundit/columnist Molly Jong-Fast. Hylton noticed Platner’s video denial included verbiage “in the past tense as though he’s about to...suspend this campaign” while Mohyeldin blasted the Nazi tattoo guy as having “a credibility problem” as the litany of denials have come with an “open-ended” tinge to leave open the possibility of more damaging stories. It's all coordinated. It's all by design. Listen to how this MSNOW panel talked about Graham Platner. *Now* they want him gone pic.twitter.com/JEzZZM5tHA — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 Once you add in Jong-Fast’s admission that “this is not a candidate who is ready for prime time in any stretch of the imagination,” and she’s “baffled that the vetting and the vetting process for this candidate” failed so spectacularly, you have a liberal media ready to throw him overboard after months of standing by him. Within that larger clip, however, were a series of vile attacks we have to address. First, Mohyeldin took aim at Lyndsey Fifield, another Platner ex-girlfriend who spoke to The New York Times, falsely claiming Racicot was the first ex to have brought “receipts” or “told other people about” him and thus has “so much more credibility.” PANTS ON FIRE: MSNOW’s Ayman Moyheldin falsely claims Jenny Racicot’s allegations to Politico about Graham Platner are the first time an ex-girlfriend of his brought “receipts” or “told other people about” him, thus she has “so much more credibility” than others. Fact-check:… pic.twitter.com/UAOq6fcUq8 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026   Fact-check: Pants on fire. Fifield offered friends, texts, and diaries as well. The Times never spoke to her friends. Hylton also set Racicot apart as more credible because “she’s clearly wrestling with the consequences of her coming forward, of her putting her reputation, her own personal story out there” and “you can tell this is something that she’s dealing with in real time and that she cares, it seems, about our democracy.” But Hylton also charged Racicot with more credibility in comparison to other exes because, in Fifield’s case, she was “associated with right-wing politics.” MSNOW’s Antonia Hylton rips @LyndseyFifield, arguing she was less credible than Jenny Racicot because she’s “associated with right-wing politics” pic.twitter.com/jcHXqqCDOT — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 News flash: Believe all women is one of the biggest lies in modern politics. Next, pay attention to how these leftists are suddenly aghast Platner lied to them (click “expand”): HYLTON: You know, Ayman, when Graham Platner was on with our colleague Chris Hayes, he told him that nothing else was coming. Chris asked him directly, is there something else out there? Will there be more allegations? And he said, no. He brushed it off. MOYHELDIN: This is the crisis that Graham Platner has created by his own doing, because throughout the allegations that have come forward over the course of his campaign, and there have been a few different buckets of allegations, whether it was the Nazi tattoo, whether he knew what it was, the — the previous allegations of misconduct with women, and now the sexual assault allegations, per Politico. Every time there is an allegation or a question about his conduct, he either says it was because of, as in the case of the tattoos, he was drunk. He didn’t know what he was doing. It’s attributable to mental challenges that he had or mental health challenges that he had. But then he would try to close the chapter by saying there shouldn’t be anything else to come out. As you said, when he had that interview, he said there were no more allegations. And for somebody who has had a troubled past and has acknowledged that he’s had a troubled past and is a flawed candidate, there have been more than, you know, ample moments for him to come forward in full disclosure and say, there have been a lot of mistakes that I have made, with as many specifics as you can, so that the people who are voting for him, the citizens and the residents of Maine, are aware of what those allegations are. Now, does that mean he has to come forward and name every single person? No, that’s — that’s not the case. But there’s always this sense when Graham Platner came forward to defend himself, that his apologies while he tried to project them as being sincere, always kept the door open, that there still may be more allegations, and at some point you have to wonder, when is it up? You know, enough is enough in terms of all of these problems that are — keep — that are being, you know, coming forward as a result of the reporting[.] Hylton and Mohyeldin actually had the gall to argue viewers should feel bad for the Democrats who “have staked their reputation by standing alongside Graham Platner, people who have endorsed him and have stood by him” as well as primary voters “who so many of them have been crying out, wanting change, desperate for a younger person to represent them in the Senate, someone with new ideas to bring to the table.”  MSNOW wants you to feel bad for the Democrats who endorsed, campaigned with, and stood beside Graham Platner and Maine Democratic primary voters “who so many of them have been crying out, wanting change, desperate for a younger person to represent them in the Senate, someone with… pic.twitter.com/1XxAgWCCww — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 Once Schnell further explained the process the Maine Democratic Party would use to replace Platner if he did quit, Mohyeldin gave his final thoughts by arguing “you can make a compelling argument that you have to try to find somebody within the Democratic establishment in Maine that represents closest to Graham Platner viewpoints” instead of who finished second in the primary, Governor Janet Mills. As for Hylton, the supposed journalist agreed because “Mills does have these serious, you know, vulnerabilities, both because voters were concerned about her age,” had “different conflicts with Native American communities,” and “really didn’t travel the state to the extent that Graham Platner did.” In other words, Platner better be replaced by a fellow socialist...or else! To see the relevant MSNOW transcripts from July 6, click here (for The Moment) and here (for Deadline: White House).

It’s easy to point out that there’s not much difference between MS NOW and “public” broadcasters. On Friday night, MS NOW broadcast a special program recorded in front of an audience in Philadelphia on June 25 titled We The People: America 250. MS NOW’s leading lady Rachel Maddow put on her smirky face to tout the patriotism of National “Public” Radio and how it’s so misunderstood by stupid conservative tweeters. It began like this: MADDOW:  On July 4th, 2017, NPR did something that it does every year National Public Radio, NPR. They every year they have their broadcasters read the declaration of Independence on air in full. In 2017, NPR also posted the declaration online. They just posted the whole thing unedited in a long series of tweets. This is an annual tradition for NPR. This is how they mark the country's birthday every year. Fact check? False. Rachel Maddow tells rapt MS NOW-fan audience that NPR has an ongoing annual tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence, and in 2017, some idiots misunderstood it. Fact check: NPR stopped reading the Declaration in 2022. It was suddenly too racist after the 2020 riots. pic.twitter.com/qMdRIc3hvk — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 6, 2026 Maddow somehow missed that NPR stopped this tradition after 33 years in 2022. In 2021, NPR ran it for the last time with the note: “But after last summer's protests and our national reckoning on race, the words in the document land differently.” In 2022, NPR co-host Leila Fadel announced on Twitter they were scrapping that tradition to analyze what Thomas Jefferson meant by "all men are created equal." They brought two liberal historians on Morning Edition to bemoan America's failures. NPR subsequently issued an “editor’s note” on previous July 4 readings, warning the Declaration of Independence is “a document that contains offensive language, including a racial slur.” Maddow indulged in smug recollection over a 2021 Washington Post headline: “Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted propaganda. It was the Declaration of Independence.” NPR had tweeted out the Declaration in little dribs and drabs, including this one: “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”. This led to tweets from low-follower accounts about NPR pushing a revolution. The MS NOW star read this response in a cartoonish stupid voice: “So NPR is calling for revolution. Interesting way to condone violence while trying to sound patriotic. Your implications are clear.” And: “Propaganda is all that you know how to do. Try supporting a man who wants to do something about the injustice in this country.” And then this one: “Please stop. This is not the right place.” The crowd roared. She noted CNN.com ran a piece echoing The Washington Post that was simply headlined: “No, NPR was not trying to start a revolution.” Before you embark on a lecture about Stupid Conservatives, it might be a smart idea to actually Google about whether NPR is still reading the Declaration on their formerly taxpayer-funded airwaves. Then you might not look as stupid as the much less famous people you're mocking.

Shootings in two major Democrat-led cities marred Independence Day celebrations over the weekend, including an incident in which the gunman was reportedly targeting babies. In Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago, at least 20 people – including two police officers – were shot, three people were stabbed and at least four were killed. Victims ranged in age from 17 to 54. In several cases, the victims were shot while they were simply walking down the street or sitting in their cars. A police officer was also among those shot in Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s New York City over the weekend where, in Brooklyn, an 18 year-old was arrested Sunday after seven shots were fired into an unmarked police car. A detective was shot in the back, but survived because he was wearing a bullet-proof vest at the time. In Coney Island, a mass shooting on Saturday, the 4th of July, left eight people wounded, including a 21 year-old woman who was hospitalized in critical condition. Four children, ages 6 to 14, were among those shot – and a witness told The New York Post that the gunman “aimed for babies.” “They just didn’t care,” Tiffany Williams, whose 21-year-old daughter was shot in the chest and left fighting for her life in a coma, told The Post. NEW: A violent Fourth of July weekend left multiple cities reeling. Chicago recorded 3 dead and 21 people shot, with homicides reportedly up 5% over the holiday weekend. In New York City, an NYPD officer was shot in the back, while a shooting at a Fourth of July cookout in… pic.twitter.com/JgmkdpuXgM — Fox News (@FoxNews) July 6, 2026

Monday’s CBS Mornings went all-in on jabbing the U.S. Men’s National Team hours before its World Cup Round of 16 match against Belgium, declaring the team is now surrounded by “outrage” after FIFA overturned star Folarin Balogun’s controversial July 1 red card, declaring they’re now “tainted” with a “stigma” and an future victories will come with an “asterisk” because they’ve “destroy[ed] the integrity of the competition.” Add in the fact there was a call last week from President Trump to FIFA boss Gianni Infantino wondering about if a review was possible and the liberal, elite media now have all the excuses they need to root against the United States (though, to be clear, CBS insisted they’re still hoping they win). Co-host Gayle King was burying the U.S. from the get-go, declaring in two opening teases about “the stunning reversal” having “caus[ed] a lot of outrage” as “President Trump helped overturn” the original “controversial decision.” Right from the start, 'CBS Mornings' was complaining about the "stunning reversal" of Balogun's red card. Co-host Gayle King fretted in the opening teases "Trump help[ing] overturn a controversial decision" has "caus[ed] a lot of outrage" pic.twitter.com/fxwhYEFlsw — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 Moments later, King promised the show would soon be “talking about the red card reversal because people have got lots of thoughts about that.” The idea fans (or any American) would be thrilled by this was largely absent from the ten-minute-plus coverage. Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers had the setup for correspondent Nicole Valdes’s report about the team and the surprising move, and emphasized there are “a lot of outraged people.” Valdes replied Trump’s “phone call is certainly sparking big questions” and painted that as the deciding factor (click “expand”): VALDES: President Trump praised the decision writing, “Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!” Sources tell CBS News Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino directly just one day after the match and asked for a review of the red card. The call was first reported by The New York Times. The pair have gotten close in recent years. GIANNI INFANTINO [on 12/05/25] [TO TRUMP]: Mr. President, this is your prize. This is your peace prize. VALDES: Infantino awarded Trump the newly created FIFA Peace Prize in December before the U.S. was set to host hundreds of this year’s matches.  Duthiers then turned to Roger Bennett of the Men in Blazers podcast: “Roger, good morning, or is it? Because a lot of people are wondering how FIFA was able to do this. There’s this little-known rule...Article 27, that allows it to defer suspension of this type. But...there are always bad calls. There are always things that we are unhappy about that we would like to see reversed, but they don’t get reversed.” Bennett preceded with a wild, Notable Quotable-laden screed. He started with the implication the U.S. was cheating with FIFA’s behavior “feel[ing] like something at a [WWE], you know, where home cooking is the best cooking” thanks to its all-encompassing Article 27, and “there was a call, as you report, said, from the White House to ask them to reinstate him.” WATCH: 'CBS Mornings' speculates the USMNT is now "tainted" with "a stigma" and any wins against Belgium and beyond in the World Cup will have "an asterisk" because FIFA overturning Balogun's red card has "destroy[ed] the integrity of the competition" pic.twitter.com/yEa59oUZ2T — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 “[T]his is not the way football works. You know, if we were playing France and President Macron put in a call to make sure their elite striker was able to play — how would we feel if Saudi Arabia did this? How would we feel,” he added, asserting this incident has “destroy[ed] the integrity of the competition.” King interjected by comparing it to a rescinded call from an NFL game after the game because “President Trump called Roger Goodell.” She then implied American victories are now “tainted” with “an asterisk”: “Bad calls and sports are how it goes. So, if the U.S. wins and listen, with our USA, go USA, we all hope the USA wins. But if they win, is there an asterisk? Is it tainted, do you think?” Bennett affirmed these wild declarations: “[Y]ou’ve absolutely nailed it. And we’ll say the crazy thing that hurts so much...[T]his World Cup has been the World Cup of the People...and there you have this.” He conceded the Americans “have been doing us proud...without any of this interference,” but now they’ll be remembered as less-than-suspect. “In the eyes of the world, no matter what happens, every goal, every game they win, maybe tonight and afterwards, will have a stigma, will have an asterisk — by the way — which will last beyond the World Cup for both the team, and this poor player,” he said. For Balogun, Bennett predicted this will define his life: “When you mention his name in 10 years, no matter how many goals he scores, no matter how many games he plays, the world will only remember him from this moment. Balo-gate.” Asked by fill-in co-host Natalie Morales if he felt the red card shouldn’t have been dealt, Bennett upped the melodramatic attitude by insisting any sort of action has “destroy[ed] the integrity of the competition” and turned the World Cup into a “courtroom drama.” They kept this going into the second half. King teased a chat with CBS Sports analyst Nico Cantor about “FIFA’s very controversial red card reversal.” Speaking to Cantor, Morales framed the red card rescinding as the work of Trump because he “made this phone call to the FIFA president.” Remarkably, they doubled down in the second hour pic.twitter.com/5LQKACbq3F — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 Cantor went right in with the negativity by declaring, “all this celebration now comes amid controversy for the United States.” He continued to fuel the fire (click “expand”): CANTOR: [W]e all, in the moment, believed that it shouldn’t have been a sending off. But there really aren’t processes in place for the U.S. to appeal that red card. But FIFA is hanging on to an article in their disciplinary code that, in my opinion, it wasn’t put there for these types of things —  KING: Yeah. MORALES: Yeah. CANTOR: — and it’s kind of just given them a blank slate to kind of just do as they wish. MORALES: Right. CANTOR: It’s not shocking because FIFA historically has done as they wish, but —  KING: The reputation for FIFA doesn’t seem so great. CANTOR: — yeah, and especially with decisions like these, right? Just — it’s unprecedented to the level that since yellow cards and red cards have been implemented at the World Cup, that’s 1974. This has never happened. Some quibbling with Duthiers about FIFA vs. UEFA later, Cantor doubled down that allowing Balogun to play “is a very unpopular decision” and now “any national team can say, ‘Hey, if you do this for the US, why don’t you do it for us,’ unfortunately.” To see the relevant CBS transcript from July 6, click here.

With a very late submission for The View’s most anti-American comments of 2026 (so far) regarding America’s 250th birthday, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin suggested America was a place she was constantly surrounded and boxed in by white supremacists. She and guest co-host, comedian and actress Michelle Buteau proclaimed that a picture of the white nationalist group Patriot Front riding the D.C. Metro with a black woman (conveniently snapped by a Reuters photographer) was the “defining image of modern America.” Hostin kicked off her comments about America 250 with a big sip of divisive identity politics. “As a black woman,” Hostin shrieked about “my lived experience in this country was embodied by a photograph that was taken in celebrating the 250th.” She would later scoff at the lived of experiences of others who said America was the greatest country to live in, and decried that people experienced and lived different lives. According to her, the picture was the epitome of “modern America”: HOSTIN: You know, I think unfortunately in this country people have different lived experiences. So, while some may have a lived experience like ‘this is the best country in the world and while there's some stuff that goes on, you know, other things are okay.’ That for me was a defining image of modern America for black Americans! BUTEAU: Yes. Yes. HOSTIN: Defining!   Sunny Hostin claims her "lived experience" in America is being surrounded by white supremacists. She claims the picture of Patriot Front on the DC Metro is the "defining image of modern America." pic.twitter.com/JruOUymOdb — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 6, 2026   Elsewhere in the segment, Hostin would reiterate a story about how when she sees a community with American flags outside their homes, she feels “unsafe” and just assumes they’re all racists: When I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe, because there's a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy.   Hostin says that any community with American flags is automatically racist: "...when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there's a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate… pic.twitter.com/SMnicvTrCd — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 6, 2026   You are, Sunny. You are the one linking the American flag to white supremacy. Why is it a bad thing that people have different experiences and live different lives? That’s what communists what; for everyone to live the same miserable life (except for themselves, of course). Building off Hostin’s hatred for America, Buteau wanted to know: “When you say ‘this is the best nation,’ the best nation for who?” “Because, if we are celebrating 250 years, what are we exactly celebrating? Is what I want to know,” she decried. She praised the image for how it supposedly showed how racists surrounded her wherever she went and whatever room she entered: And so, I'm really glad that picture was taken because that picture is how we feel walking into many rooms, down the street. That picture is how we feel and nobody will believe us. So, look at that picture and understand how it feels!   Buteau adds to Hostin's hatred of America, questions: "When you say this is the best nation, the best nation for who? Because if we are celebrating 250 years what are we exactly celebrating is what I want to know?" She says she feels like every room she enters is full of racists. pic.twitter.com/a5P5BZbikv — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 6, 2026   Additionally, The View also took issue with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum condemning the white supremacists this way: “I think that certainly what they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with, but one of the foundational principles of the United States, which makes democracy messy, is free speech.” They just needed to be honest and admit they just hated America. It’s the same reason Hostin once argued it was better to be a woman in Iran than black in America, and that Ghana was a better country. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View July 6, 2026 11:21:34 a.m. Eastern (…) SUNNY HOSTIN: In terms of, of, of, of, of, of, you know, as a black woman, my lived experience in this country was embodied by a photograph that was taken in celebrating the 250th. JOY BEHAR: Yeah. There was a Fourth of July march in D.C. By masked white nationalists who were also caught on camera riding the Metro with a very concerned-looking woman. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum -- See that picture? [points at the screen behind them] Look at that. HOSTIN: Yeah. BEHAR: It's scary. Doug Burgum was asked if he condemns the group's message on CNN. He’s a Trumper. Watch. [Cuts to video] SECY. DOUG BURGUM (Department of the Interior): I think that certainly what they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with, but one of the foundational principles of the United States, which makes democracy messy, is free speech. And there are plenty of things that I see that I might personally find offensive, irreprehensible, but in America free speech is allowed. [Cuts back to live] [Crosstalk] BEHAR: So that -- for that they're concerned about the First Amendment! HOSTIN: Correct. For that. BEHAR: But getting Jimmy Kimmel off the air that doesn't count! Go ahead. [Applause] HOSTIN: Correct. And that's the thing. You know, I think unfortunately in this country people have different lived experiences. So, while some may have a lived experience like ‘this is the best country in the world and while there's some stuff that goes on, you know, other things are okay.’ That for me was a defining image of modern America for black Americans! MICHELLE BUTEAU: Yes. Yes. HOSTIN: Defining! (…) 11:24:07 a.m. Eastern BUTEAU: When you say ‘this is the best nation,’ the best nation for who? HOSTIN: Yeah! When you say it's the best nation, the best nation for who? BUTEAU: When you say ‘this is the best nation,’ the best nation for who? Because, if we are celebrating 250 years, what are we exactly celebrating? Is what I want to know. And so, I'm really glad that picture was taken because that picture is how we feel walking into many rooms, down the street. That picture is how we feel and nobody will believe us. So, look at that picture and understand how it feels! HOSTIN: Yes. Yes. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And you never should be made to feel like that. It's wrong that this woman did. HOSTIN: And I said this on this show many, many years ago. Because this is my tenth year on the show and I said there are times; when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe, because there's a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy. And that should never be the symbol of white supremacy, but they have weaponized -- FARAH GRIFFIN: Because the flag belongs to all of us. HOSTIN: It does belong to all of us. But those men were wearing a flag on their hats. (…)