Dem. Candidate Graham Platner Denies Nazi Tattoo Allegations

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Getting a tattoo while you’re drunk is a bad idea… and getting one that at best looks like a Nazi symbol and at worst literally is one is a MUCH worse idea.
Which is the exact situation the Democratic Candidate in Maine’s Senate race, Graham Platner, has found himself in.
Images of the tattoo are a bit blurry, but it doesn’t take an expert at Nazi iconography to recognize that it looks A LOT like the Totenkopf, or Death’s Head.
Technically the Death’s Head has existed in German military traditions for much longer than the Nazis, but ever since World War II and its use among SS Divisions it's been exclusively associated with them.
Platner claims that he got the tattoo in 2007 while in the Marine Corps and on leave in Croatia and that one night he got drunk and decided to get a “skull and crossbones” tattoo without ever realizing the one he got seems to be VERY similar to the Nazi symbol.
He claims that he only recently learned about the resemblance and made plans to get it removed.
And that’s despite multiple government agencies taking a look at it.
For example, he joined the Army and they check all tattoos for any possible hate symbols and apparently didn’t have an issue with the tat.
Platner added that “I also passed a full background check to receive a security clearance to join the Ambassador to Afghanistan’s security detail.”
However he was understandably impatient and got it covered up yesterday, telling reporters “Going to a tattoo removal place is going to take awhile. I wanted this thing off my body.”
What’s wild is that this is just the latest gaffe for the progressive candidate in the race.
It looks like opposition research did their work, because not only was the tattoo found but also past Facebook posts where Platner said some pretty bad things.
This includes charged comments like asking about Black people’s tipping habits, mocking rural Americans, and dismissing military sexual assaults.
(He still kinda stands by his questioning about Black people. He asked about it on Pod Save America he said:
“I was legitimately asking the question. I mean, that was the point of the thread to ask the question. Amusingly enough, I remember this time when I first started bar tending and I had a conversation with a friend of mine who black, who was a bartender, who did a great job walking me through structural injustice, a feeling of a lack of agency, and after that I was like ‘Oh yeah, that makes absolute perfect sense.’ It certainly was not a malicious thing,”
He then later added “that one, I must say, I was legitimately curious.”



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