Lawrence is saying Platner is a nepo baby

[WSHazel]

Platner could not be more full of s***. Outsider my ass.

[RandySF]

1. I don't know about "nepo" but Platner's a rich kid.

But he’s also an accused rapist. It’s over.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Went to Hotchkiss School - verrrrry Prep. . .

. . .and exclusive and expensive AF.

[niyad]

10. When I pointed that particular fact out during the primary campaign, I

was told, "oh, but he was there on a scholarship, so it doesn't count as privilege". Ii wanted to throw up. I went to a private college on scholarships, and I damn well recognized it for the privilege that it was, in terms of the education I received.

[2naSalit]

5. Lawrence is on it...

He's never felt he needed to cover him before now but he is now. And he has done his homework. If platner watches this, he should be ashamed of himself and step down now. As Lawrence said, "... has not been humbled enough, yet."

Worth the watch, 2 segments.

[rogue emissary]

19. Chris Hayes should also be embarrassed.He went all in on Platner.

[betsuni]

26. Well, he pushed the Tara "crotchless panties" Reade (who lives in Russia now) story against Biden.

His judgment isn't so great.

[rogue emissary]

31. Yeap. That why I refuse to watch his program.

Never forgave him for such a lack of basic journalistic standards.

[AloeVera]

7. A rich kid worth $300,000 including his home.

And his mother owns TWO restaurants and a flower shop!

But you're right. It's over. All except for the pile-on.

By tomorrow morning we might wake up to find out he was a Thiel plant to divide Democrats or that he's actually an alien spawn of Satan.

[Boo1]

13. Father was a lawyer and

Grandfather a famous architect. Went to prep schools and took "gap years" to go backpacking across Europe. Definitely just regular working class lifestyle.

He was and is a FRAUD, and that's one of his better traits.

[obamanut2012]

28. Lawrence and Wikipedia are hate groups?

lol

[AloeVera]

30. True, those 2 points are verified.

I will self-delete. I was hasty. It was early morning lol.

[sheshe2]

14. How a Rich Kid Politician Was Spun as a Working Class 'Oysterman'

Graham Platner’s takeover of an existing oyster business was actually funded by a $20,000 grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, a Greek billionaire’s nonprofit, and by his mother, Leslie Harlow, a local businesswoman who owns two restaurants and a gift shop in the area.

The Niarchos Foundation grant that helped finance Graham Platner’s business was supposed to be for small businesses owned by “underserved groups” without “access to capital” like “people of color, women, and veterans as well as those in lower-income communities”.

While Platner was a veteran, he came from a wealthy family and his business was not recovering from the pandemic. The progressive maxed out the $20,000 grant and took money that the Niachos Foundation had intended should go to help black people to build his business.

If you believe Graham Platner, he joined a war he didn’t believe in, then he dropped out because he didn’t believe in it, then he decided to believe in it some more, and then stopped believing in it a few years later, and now he’s running against a war that he switched between being for and against so many times that it would have given John Kerry whiplash.

Much more at the link! https://www.danielgreenfield.org/p/how-rich-kid-politician-was-spun-as

[Celerity]

15. Platner is a POS and has to go, BUT your reply article's author, Daniel Greenfield, is hardcore RWer, a Dem-basher,

a David Horowitz style hateful agitprop-pusher, a racist and an Islamophobic MAGAt.

Dismaying to see this motherfucker posted here on DU.

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/p/about-me



What Do I do?

My original ‘Sultan Knish’ blog was founded in 2005 and 31 million views later, several transformations later, it’s still here. My beat at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Front Page Magazine, its blog, The Point, and everything I do is fueled by the conviction that truth matters. I cover everything from the Left's war on America at home to Islamic terror abroad. I was named a "hate group of one" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC may not have been too happy that I caught them faking statistics.

From exposing Biden's theft of money from 9/11 victims to fund the Taliban to surveying the Most Corrupt Village in America to racial quotas in the military to being among the first to break the story of government mandates causing widespread COVID deaths in nursing homes, I cast a wide net.

I delved into Jihadists in the Biden administration, showed Facebook uses UN regulations to censor conservatives, including President Trump, how the CDC Deputy Director helped cover up COVID deaths and documented how Biden's funding of terrorism killed Israelis. Including money sent before the Oct 7 attacks.

Around the world, I document the hard truths about diversity terror migration, in depth pieces on terrorist attacks in Europe, across Israel and right here in this country. I have appeared on the shows of Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and many others. "You are one of many people who have given me feedback that my reading and interpretation of that piece by Daniel Greenfield was of profound enlightenment," Rush Limbaugh said of my writing.

My first book, 'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left' told the untold story of the rise of the American Left.

[AloeVera]

17. A nasty hit piece by a member of a hate group.

The right-wing, anti-Muslim "David Horowitz Freedom Centre" is a designated hate-group by the SPLC. The author of this hit piece is a Fellow there.

I ventured onto his blog from the link you provided. Hope no one else does. According to this fellow, Mamdani is giving away chocolate condoms, Kamala wants to wreck America to make her President, America can't survive the Welfare State, "Crying Terror-Linked Islamist Dems" are infiltrating the GOP and much more, one worse than the other. The SPLC is a target too, for obvious reasons.

I had actually read this hit piece yesterday and it left a real bad taste in my mouth for its and mean-spiritedness and right-wing style attacks. Now I know why.

[Ursus Rex]

33. The line about Kerry was a giveaway.

It sounds like a real pro hitpiece, for sure.

[kentuck]

24. And he sold his oysters to his mother's restaurants.

He was not who he pretended to be.

[AloeVera]

32. Is there a law against that?

He took over a friend's oyster business in 2019 and has been operating it ever since.

But people should be aware that they are repeating a lot of unverified and politically driven oppo research by the likes of the Washington Free Beacon, the Daily Caller, FOX and the odious hate group the David Horowitz Freedom Centre. I saw another o/p repeating this doodoo. It's a pile-on frenzy.

Even when (not if) Platner drops out, we don't need to amplify GOP oppo smears, that only benefits Collins. Bet on it she will make hay. So what exactly is the benefit or the motive here?

[appmanga]

3. Lawrence showed how much of a fiction Platner's "everyman oysterman" persona happens to be...

...and how authenticity isn't Platner's strong suit. Lawrence took the bark off him.

[Nixie]

4. That was total exposure. Silver spoon guy!

Lawrence laid it all out, wow.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. I respect LOD's consistency and rationality. He seems the real deal.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Lawrence was amazing tonight

I am going to rewatch Lawrence again tonight

[Nixie]

12. Same here. That was a masterclass takedown. I took the

word masterclass from Simone Sanders lead-in tonight while talking to Lawrence. It just fits his segment so perfectly. Definitely going to watch that again.

[3catwoman3]

9. That was Lawrence at his cold, steely, quiet fury best

Brutal.

[ABC123Easy]

11. Lawrence is correct.

Trust fund kid, nepo baby, born on 3rd base thought he hit a triple, etc.....
Platner is the definition of this. A big reason why I couldn't believe what he was saying. I feared another Fetterman.

[betsuni]

16. That info was there all along. Safe to finally type it out loud now.

"working class" "grassroots" "progressive" "establishment" "centrist" "status quo" "corporate Dem" "beholden to the donor class" -- it's a script of buzzwords anyone can read.

Democrats use their own words and don't all sound the same. They actually know how government works and get things done which are attacked as not enough (and of course nobody ever said or thought it was enough -- progress is incremental, like Social Security and Medicare and everything's a compromise).

I really hope people stop falling for scams.

[Cirsium]

34. Not always

Progress is not always incremental, and that idea can become an excuse for compromise and inaction. The administrations of Lincoln, Johnson and FDR enacted radical political change very quickly. Of course there had been a lot of work to lead to the conditions that allowed them to make those changes. That work was done by people who said "not enough," not by people who said "progress is incremental" and "everything's a compromise."

Actions by the FDR administration in the first 100 days: Civilian Conservation Corps, Emergency Banking Act, Federal Emergency Relief Act, Glass-Steagall Banking Act, National Industrial Recovery Act, Securities Act. Subsequent achievements: Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Social Security.

We may or may not be living in a time when rapid and radical change will happen. We certainly don't want to stand in the way.

The fact that people fell for scams regarding Platner or Fetterman does not invalidate the demand for radical change, especially among young people. Huey Long's shenanigans did not invalidate the New Deal.

[QueerDuck]

20. Many here had been pointing out these things, but without using the phrase "nepo baby"...

... for obvious reasons. And I'll just leave it at that.

[MichMan]

21. He was a darling here with a lot of apologists

Lots of others that did have doubts were afraid to express them or had their posts alerted on and removed.

We were told that he had no idea that the tattoo was from the Nazi's it was something he got while drunk and thought it was a cool pirate symbol. His sexist and racist posts were dismissed because they were taken out of context, were made while he was younger/stupid/drunk, or he had evolved since then. The initial accuser was a Republican operative who fabricated the entire thing. It was a plus that he had never held elected office before because he was a working class oysterman. etc. etc.

I wonder if he had been up in the polls over Collins by 12 points if all those red flags would still be dismissed by many.

Now, it's fair game to pile on and for everyone to universally say they knew all along that he was a fraud.

[obamanut2012]

29. Your first sentence?

It happened to me, and it made me silence myself for a while.

Now, it's segued into rape apologists.

[Lancero]

22. Don't forget his work as a Merc under Blackwater successor - And Epstein bankroller - Apollo Global Management.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Here is the clip from Lawrence last night

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on the lesson of the Platner campaign: Always wait for the vetting youtu.be/rnKosV5DkqA?...

— The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (@lastwordmsnow.bsky.social) 2026-07-08T04:19:12.688Z

[Torchlight]

25. We're entering a political era where every setback is dismissed as unfair

a hit piece, a pile-on, cheating, the work of operatives, or outright fraud. It seems that once we make a poor choice, our first instinct is no longer to confront its consequences but to defend or rationalize our decision, even at the expense of acknowledging the reality it has cuased.

Sometimes I have to admit I made a poor choice and work forward from that.

[obamanut2012]

27. No, but he is like Kid Rock -- a well-heeled, privileged background they stuff behind a good ole boy exterior

Jeff Foxworthy is another one. It drives me crazy -- I'm actually from a rural, blue collar background.