Maine Democrat Senate nominee Graham Platner is facing fresh allegations from a woman who says he cheated on his fiance with her and justified his Nazi tattoo by claiming it reminded him that the U.
S. was the evil bad guy overseas..
According to Breitbart, the alleged former girlfriend told the New York Post that Platner was fully aware of the Nazi origins of his Totenkopf skull-and-crossbones tattoo and that his conduct damaged her reputation. She said he carried on an affair with her while engaged, compounding concerns about his judgment and character as he seeks to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a high-stakes race.
As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, Is that a Totenkopf? and he told me a whole, he will hold this weight forever bravado sob story about how it was, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas, the woman, who requested anonymity, told the New York Post. She maintained that Platners explanation was not the product of ignorance but a deliberate choice to retain a symbol historically associated with the SS and Nazi deaths-head units.
The woman reportedly provided the Post with screenshots of text messages she sent to her mother and a friend in September of last year, in which she discussed Platners Nazi tattoo. Better not take a peek at the Nazi tattoo on his chest, she wrote in one message, indicating she had raised concerns about the ink long before it became a public controversy.
Platners campaign has attempted to downplay the scandal, insisting the tattoo was a misguided tribute to fallen comrades rather than an ideological statement. Grahams repeatedly said he picked a skull-and-crossbones tattoo off a wall in Croatia to commemorate surviving Ramadi and his friends who were killed there, a spokesperson from the Platner campaign told the Post. Graham has also since covered up the tattoo, and answered countless questions about it.
The same spokesperson quickly pivoted to attacking Sen. Collins, rather than addressing the deeper implications of a Senate candidate sporting Nazi imagery. Unlike Susan Collins, who refuses to take questions on her disastrous vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, gut rural hospitals, and supported every foreign war of the last thirty years, the spokesperson added, echoing standard Democrat talking points against the long-serving Republican.
Platners ex-girlfriend emphasized that, despite the infidelity and disturbing symbolism, he never became physically violent with her. Her account, however, adds to a growing list of women who say Platners behavior in relationships has been unsettling and erratic, raising red flags about his temperament.
The Maine Democrat clinched his partys nomination to challenge Collins less than a week after multiple women publicly described unsettling and controversial conduct while dating him. The New York Times profiled several of these women, further intensifying scrutiny of Platners past and amplifying concerns already swirling around his Nazi tattoo.
In one interview, conservative commentator Lyndsey Fifield, who dated Platner between 2013 and 2015, said he would often be rough with her while talking about violence, though she clarified he never actually struck her. He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them, Fifield told the outlet, a remark that many voters may find profoundly disturbing coming from a would-be U.S. senator.
Fifield also alleged that Platner once escalated an argument by physically restraining her. She said he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldnt get out, telling her to remain there until she was calm.
Regarding the Nazi tattoo, Fifield expressed skepticism about Platners claims of ignorance, noting that he would sometimes refer to it explicitly as my Totenkopf. Jewish Insider previously reported that a former acquaintance also recalled him using that term, undermining the campaigns narrative that the symbol was an innocent battlefield memorial.
At least two other women who dated Platner have described patterns of heavy drinking and womanizing, painting a picture of a candidate whose private life appears at odds with the seriousness of the office he seeks. Maine Democrat Jenny Raciot, who was involved with Platner between 2019 and 2021, characterized his behavior as reckless and unsettling, adding yet another voice to a chorus of women whose stories now shadow his campaign as he attempts to unseat a veteran Republican senator.
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