Sen. John Fetterman, often an outlier in his own party, has again broken ranks by publicly torching a fellow Democrat now mired in scandal.
According to Gateway Pundit, Fetterman of Pennsylvania was pressed on CNN about Graham Platner, the Democratic Socialist candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, whose campaign has been rocked by revelations of extramarital sexting and a string of disturbing controversies. Platner, a darling of the partys far-left flank, has been exposed for sending explicit messages to women who were not his wife, even as national Democrats largely look the other way in a race they consider crucial to maintaining their Senate power.
CNN reported that Sen. John Fetterman issued a scathing takedown of Graham Platner as the leading Democratic candidate in Maines Senate race has become embroiled in a scandal over reports that he sent sexual text messages to women who were not his wife. In the same interview, Fetterman did not limit his criticism to the sexting allegations, instead highlighting Platners long-troubling online history and a notorious tattoo that has raised serious questions about his judgment and values.
Fetterman likened Platner to a Nazi sympathizer over a now-infamous tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol, a mark Platner now claims he did not understand and has since covered. Platner has apologized for the past posts and has pleaded ignorance over the meaning of the tattoo, but that explanation has done little to quell concerns among voters who expect basic moral clarity from anyone seeking high office.
When I was growing up, if someone had a clear Nazi tattoo on them, you probably could conclude that theyre a Nazi sympathizer, Fetterman said, before listing some of Platners more inflammatory posts. Are you going to continue to defend that or dismiss that? he added, implicitly challenging Democrat leaders who have refused to distance themselves from the embattled candidate.
The Pennsylvania senators remarks land at a time when many Senate Democrats have been reluctant to criticize their partys top candidate in Maines highly competitive Senate race after reports have circulated about Platners wife flagging his sexual texts with other women to his campaign That silence underscores a familiar double standard in Washington, where Democrats routinely preach about norms and decency while circling the wagons around their own scandal-plagued hopefuls.
Oh, phustle, Fetterman said of Platner. What kind of a creep? What kind of a creeper has been on a platform like Kik, and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and who knows what else? His blunt assessment stands in stark contrast to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who continues to back Platner despite the mounting evidence of moral and ethical rot.
John Fetterman has more courage and clarity than Chuck Schumer, who is steadfastly standing by Platner, despite everything that has been learned about him. If Democrats lose this election in Maine, it will be easy to see why, as voters grow tired of a party that protects its radicals and lectures everyone else on character.
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