Democrat Candidate For Senate Says He Was Drunk When He Got A Nazi-Linked Tattoo

Posted • October 21, 2025: Remember back when former New Yorker "fact-checker" Talia Lavin smeared a Marine veteran working for ICE by calling out his Nazi tattoo? Except it wasn't a Nazi tattoo, and Lavin, a supposed expert on exposing the far-right, was sent packing. Now we have another Marine being accused of having a Nazi tattoo, which he exposed on the Obama bros' "Pod Save America" podcast. The difference is that Graham Platner is running for the Democrat nomination to be the next senator from Maine. Graham Platner says ‘I am not a secret Nazi’ after photos of his tattoo emerge" - "A fmr acquaintance of the D Senate candidate said he called the tattoo ‘my Totenkopf,’ referring to a symbol adopted by a Nazi SS unit" - “We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo.” […]

We believe him when he says he didn't know it had any Nazi connection. Now, remember what they put Secretary of War Pete Hegseth through during his confirmation hearings when they claimed his Jerusalem Cross and "Deus Vult" tattoos were connected to white supremacist groups. Hegseth said he was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member and pulled from guarding Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration. Sadly for the Democrats, the tattoo "controversy" didn't stop Hegseth's confirmation. So what are the Democrats going to do about Platner? Just excuse him because he was drunk and thought the skull and crossbones looked cool. Will Dems give Platner the Hegseth treatment? Where's Lavin on this? "I'm not a Nazi just a communist" is a lateral move. Man's had a totenkopf on his chest for 18 years and is only now learning it was an emblem of the SS? I call bullshit. In Maine, it comes down to this: either this individual or Susan Collins. What a choice when Collins looks good. (…)

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