Donald Trump Gets a Pass. Graham Platner Gets a Woodchipper: The Impossible Democratic Purity Test
We Saw the Devil: Unfiltered Political Analysis
We Saw the Devil
4.2 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
We break down the allegations against Platner, what he has admitted, what he denies, and why the political background of his most prominent accuser matters. We also talk about the larger question Democrats keep refusing to answer: what exactly is the standard?
Because Donald Trump has 34 felony convictions, was found civilly liable for sexual abuse, owes millions in defamation damages, and is still treated by Republicans as perfectly fit to govern. But Graham Platner, a Marine combat veteran and PTSD survivor running against Susan Collins, gets treated like an extinction-level event by his own party.
Also in this episode: Trump cries election fraud while his own candidates are winning in California, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon slashes recognized faiths and leans harder into Christian nationalism, Republicans briefly flinch at a $1.8 billion weaponization slush fund before protecting the possibility of bringing it back, Trump’s White House ballroom donors rake in billions in federal contracts, and the House moves to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
It is corruption, hypocrisy, purity politics, and institutional cowardice all the way down.
Keywords: Graham Platner, Susan Collins, Maine Senate race, 2026 Senate election, Democratic Party, Democratic purity test, purity politics, Trump corruption, Donald Trump, Democratic double standard, Graham Platner allegations, Susan Collins Maine, Maine primary, Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, Janet Mills, Project 2025, Heritage Foundation, Independent Women’s Forum, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump felony convictions, E. Jean Carroll, Pete Hegseth, Department of War, Department of Defense, Christian nationalism, Pentagon religion policy, Trump election fraud claims, California primary, Xavier Becerra, Steve Hilton, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Trump ballroom, White House ballroom donors, federal contracts, weaponization fund, Democratic leadership, We Saw the Devil, political podcast, left wing politics, anti corruption, authoritarianism, media hypocrisy, Democratic infighting, Susan Collins challenger, Graham Platner Maine Senate
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| 0:00.0 | The man currently sitting in the Oval Office has 34 felony convictions. |
| 0:05.8 | He was found civilly liable for sexual abuse by a federal jury. |
| 0:10.1 | A judge ordered him to pay $88 million in defamation damages to the woman he's sexually abused and then publicly humiliated. |
| 0:18.3 | 26 women have accused him of sexual misconduct. He bragged on tape about |
| 0:23.4 | grabbing women by the pussy. He paid hush money to a porn star while his third wife was home with |
| 0:28.8 | their infant son. He called for the execution of his own vice president. He incited a riot at the |
| 0:34.3 | United States Capitol, stole classified documents, and also called Nazis |
| 0:38.8 | very fine people. And he is the president of the United States. For whatever reason, Republicans |
| 0:44.6 | did not have a single fucking note on that. Now, now, Graham Platner, Democratic Senate candidate |
| 0:50.9 | from Maine, also oyster farmer, marine combat veteran, PTSD survivor, |
| 0:56.2 | he has some Democrats ready to throw the whole race into the whichever. Because his ex-girlfriend, |
| 1:02.9 | a Heritage Foundation operative who spent seven years at an organization that wrote, wrote Project |
| 1:09.3 | 2025, and then worked on Nikki Haley's campaign and is now a fellow |
| 1:14.2 | at the same conservative group that wrote Susan Collins' talking point to support Brett Kavanaugh. |
| 1:20.4 | She gave an interview to the New York Times saying he was a bad boyfriend, potentially abusive, a |
| 1:26.3 | decade ago. And suddenly now Chuck Schumer can't find his phone. |
| 1:30.4 | John effing Fetterman is all over television demanding that Graham Platner drop out. |
| 1:37.6 | Melissa de Rosa, who is Andrew Cuomo's former right hand, absolute icon of progressive credibility, said, and I quote, |
| 1:45.8 | there are a lot of moderate Democrats like myself who will not cry tears should we lose Maine. |
| 1:53.6 | Should we lose Maine? Maine. The state that Democrats need to flip the Senate. The race were |
| 2:00.1 | platinum is leading Susan Collins by nine points |
| 2:03.2 | despite months and months of bad press. A Nazi tattoo controversy. Deleted Reddit posts that were |
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