Megan Basham

Plattner stood by his assertions that he did not know that a tattoo he had on his chest for years was a Nazi symbol until after he launched his campaign.

One of Plattner's exes from the Times story, Lindsay Fifield, released a statement this morning slamming the outlet's treatment of her story.

Fifield said on X that the article was, quote, a setup.

Times journalists reached out to her and spent weeks working on the story, she said.

Reporters went through messages, interviewed her friends, read diary entries, and in the end wrote a story that seemed angled to undermine Fifield's account.

She wrote, quote, 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 Plattner campaign, violating the trust of his victims, shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

Yeah, Georgia, all of this stems from an incident that occurred in April of 2025 during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas.

So Anthony and Metcalf had a verbal dispute over seating.

Metcalf had reportedly asked Anthony to move away from his team's seating area.

And at that point, Anthony allegedly grabbed his bag, reached inside and said, touch me and see what happens.

Metcalf then reportedly pushed him.

In response, Anthony allegedly pulled a knife from his bag and stabbed Metcalf in the chest, and Metcalf died there on the scene in his twin brother's arms.

So as the trial got underway this week with jury selection—

prosecutors used peremptory strikes against the three prospective Black jurors in the pool, and that left an all-white jury.

So defense attorney Mike Howard strongly objected, and he argued that these strikes were racially motivated.

What he said was that those three jurors that were excused were 100% of the available African-American jurors in the strike zone.

Now, that kind of challenge, which argues that jurors have been dismissed because of race, is what's known as a Batson challenge.

And law professor Anna Offit told the local Fox affiliate that these kinds of challenges are rarely made and almost never successful.

But it could provide grounds for appeal.

Prosecutors pushed back, saying that the strikes had nothing to do with race, but were because all three of those jurors were teachers.