Ben Shapiro

It's his mommy's restaurant.

Aw, isn't that nice?

Anyway, according to the New York Times, Ms.

Fifield recalled that Mr. Plattner's displays of weaponry and discussions of violence sometimes left her uneasy.

She said he kept an AR-15 lying around his apartment on Capitol Hill and would sharpen an axe, a relic from his time working on the Appalachian Trail before he enlisted in the Marines while watching TV.

AR-15s, by the way, are banned in the District of Columbia, and Graham Plattner is a fan of gun control, so there's that.

Uh, also I just got to ask, I mean, I'm going to put it out there.

Ladies, if your man, like the way that he amused, like you're not living in the backwoods or you're not actually in Maine at the time you're in like DC.

And the way that you relax in the evening is by watching the news while you sharpen an ax.

That is the opening to a horror film.

That is not a masculine romantic gesture.

That's super weird.

And as we'll get to in a moment, it gets weirder.

According to Lindsey Fifield, he had what she described as a warrior ethos and would fantasize about killing people he deemed a threat.

She said he told her that rape was about power.

It was something that stuck with her throughout the years, Ms.

Fifield said, quote, he said this a lot.

If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them, she recalled, saying he added it would not be in a sexual way, not in a gay way.

He was like, I would rape them to show them that I'm dominant, she said.

Asked about those remarks, a Plattner campaign official did not dispute...