How Long Will Democrats Keep Defending Platner?

 Remember when the Lying Maggotshit  all claimed 

Pete Hegseth had a Nazi tattoo and it was a flat out 

Lie and wanted him out .  

Now you have this Anti American Nazi piece of shit

 with a Nazi tattoo and it's ok?  They are SICK!

To get a sense of how bereft the Democrats are of genuine principles, a good place to start is their defense of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. This is the “oyster farmer” they hope can unseat five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins in November. And, in that cause, they are willing to overlook a lot of controversies surrounding Platner. Among these is the tattoo of a Totenkopf, the insignia of the Nazi SS, which he sported on his chest for 18 years. Yet, when Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) was asked about Platner on ABC News, he feigned “concern” then pivoted to President Trump: “This man is dangerous, and it’s time that we take back the Senate. And that’s what I’m focused on.”

Graham Platner is incontrovertibly a depraved, deceptive imposter. He is no more qualified to be a United States Senator than he is to work alongside genuine oystermen.

The Nazi tattoo is by no means the only noxious element in the cloud of controversy that follows Platner around. It has been previously reported that he has engaged in lewd acts in portable toilets, attacked a Purple Heart recipient as someone “who didn’t deserve to live,” has a still-active account on an app called KiK, apparently used for hookups with underage girls, sexted with numerous women outside his marriage, ad infinitum. Yet, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) posted, “I am proud of @grahamformaine for having the character to stand up against the war in Iran, against genocide, and against an unfair & lopsided economy. I am proud of him for having a vision for a new deal for our time. Excited to campaign with him on June 5!”

After extensive write-ups appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal about Platner’s sexual antics, he posted what amounts to a hostage video of his wife defending him on X: “I’m feeling angry today and I don’t normally make public statements, but it’s really important for me to tell all of you out there, especially people who are voting in Maine, that I think it’s shameful behavior to spend time, and energy and resources on negative ads and negative stories on Graham when all he’s trying to do is improve the lives of people.” She added, “I confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend.” This was a reference to Genevieve McDonald, the primary source for the New York Times article:

Ms. McDonald was one of three campaign officials who resigned in October after revelations about controversial social media posts by Mr. Platner and scrutiny of a tattoo widely recognized as a Nazi symbol … Ms. McDonald shared with The New York Times what she said was a screenshot of a text message exchange with Ms. Gertner that started in the early hours of Aug. 27, 2025. Ms. Gertner had sent a message to a broader group, asking someone from the campaign to contact her, and Ms. McDonald offered to talk. In their conversation, Ms. Gertner told her about the messages, which she described as “sexting,” according to Ms. McDonald.

Nonetheless, prominent Democrats like Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn) still defend Platner. On Sunday, CBS’s Margaret Brennan poses a Platner question to Sen. Murphy about the ongoing sexting scandal. And, like Sen. Booker, he quickly pivots to an attack on Sen. Collins and President Trump: “Character, also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country, and this race is going to be a contrast between somebody that put his life on the line for this country, against somebody that is literally empowering the moral hollowing out of our nation from The White House.” The accusation that Sen. Collins is somehow empowering President Trump to morally hollow out the nation is, of course, utterly ridiculous.

Over at NBC, it’s much the same story. Kristen Welker addresses the Platner sexting scandal within the panel discussion at Meet the Press. Former Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) responds by pivoting to Texas: “Well, let me go back to Texas for just a moment. Cornyn was a beloved candidate beloved by Republicans in Washington and in Texas. I’m not sure that candidate flaws matter as much as they used to. Millions of dollars were spent to save Cornyn. Didn’t work. Paxton won by a landslide.” Her point seems to be that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is just as weird as Graham Platner. This is absurd, but it’s important to remember what happens to heretics in today’s Democratic Party. Eoin Higgins explains at The Intercept:

Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Massachusetts Democrat, was confronted with this new reality earlier this week. He told CNN on Monday that he hoped Maine voters would reject Graham Platner, the state’s presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate, over his controversial tattoo, which Auchincloss called “personally disqualifying.” Critics quickly pointed out that the congressman was effectively offering a tacit endorsement of Sen. Susan Collins, the milquetoast moderate Republican incumbent who has for years infuriated Democrats … Regardless of what happens in Maine, Democrats need to take back the Senate and I’ll keep working hard to make it happen.

By the next day, Higgins points out, the congressman had been bullied into issuing a mea culpa on X and vehemently denied that his remarks were an endorsement of the Republican in the race: “Susan Collins is a rubber stamp for the worst admin in history. Claims that I would endorse her, implicitly or otherwise, ignore my track record supporting Democrats to take back both chambers. As I said months ago, I find Platner’s Nazi tattoo and his commentary about it personally disqualifying. If it were me I’d vote for someone else in the Maine Democratic primary.” This illustrates why centrists are a dying breed in the Democratic Party. Rep. Auchincloss cannot hope to survive if he doesn’t toe the party line.

Graham Platner is incontrovertibly a depraved, deceptive imposter. He is no more qualified to be a United States Senator than he is to work alongside genuine oystermen. Yet, because he appears to lead Sen. Collins in the general election polls, as reflected in the RCP average, the Democrats will allow no criticism of him, no matter what he says or does. The good news is that Sen. Collins, as annoying as she can be, has defeated far better men than Platner. If his numbers crash due to the latest scandals, that is when the Democrats will stop defending him.

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