I’m almost starting to feel sorry for this guy. Graham Platner was riding high for a few months in Maine as a blue-collar challenger to Sen. Susan Collins. He was defying gravity long enough for him to get used to the feel of winning and to like it.
And then a deluge of oppo-research was dumped on him and he’s clearly struggling. In fact, he’s now doing oppo-dumps on himself as a way to get out ahead of some potentially embarrassing issues. Specifically, it turns out that Platner has a Nazi tattoo on his chest.
A recently surfaced video shows Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner with a chest tattoo of the SS Totenkopf, the skull-and-crossbones emblem used by Nazi “Death’s Head” units.
Platner has stated he got the tattoo while drunk as a young Marine on shore leave in… pic.twitter.com/euH926eTgA
— Maine State Press (@MaineStatePress) October 21, 2025
Platner’s own camp leaked this to Pod Save America so he could get out in front of it. This isn’t speculation, it comes directly from Tommy Vietor in this clip.
NEW: Graham Platner reacts to recently resurfaced video of him singing shirtless at a wedding and an opposition research attack alleging he’s a “secret nazi.” Full interview out now on the Pod Save America YouTube. pic.twitter.com/r8GEePCPLP
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) October 21, 2025
“I am not a secret Nazi,” is not something you want your Senate candidate to be saying in the midst of a campaign. And even still, it appears that Platner is lying about this, which sort of nullifies his effort to nip it in the bud. Here’s what he told the Associated Press:
In a statement to The Associated Press late Tuesday, Mr. Platner said: “It was not until I started hearing from reporters and D.C. insiders that I realized this tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol. I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that — and to insinuate that I did is disgusting. I am already planning to get this removed.”
He’s still planning to get it removed eventually but according to another AP story he has already had it covered up:
Platner, in an Associated Press interview, said that while his campaign initially said he would remove the tattoo, he chose to cover it up with another tattoo due to the limited options where he lives in rural Maine.
“Going to a tattoo removal place is going to take a while,” he said. “I wanted this thing off my body.”
Is it true that he just realized the tattoo was a well-known Nazi symbol? Well, no, not according to Jewish Insider which spoke to an old acquaintance of his. Turns out he knew exactly what it was more than a decade ago.
…according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.
“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”
The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.
Platner gave varying accounts of the image during this time, saying at one point he was aware it was a Totenkopf when he had first gotten the tattoo several years prior and at another time claiming he had not known, according to the former acquaintance.
The mixed accounts indicate that Platner has at least long been aware of the symbols’s connection to Nazism, even as he said in the podcast interview he was not familiar with any such association when he chose to get the tattoo.
So he’s know for at least 13 years what this was (and maybe longer) but this week he has decided to get it removed.
Genevieve McDonald is the former staffer who resigned from his campaign last week. She also said there’s no way Platner didn’t know what this was long ago. He’s a military history buff. She says the outcome of this is that the GOP is going to “f***ing crush any dreams we had in the general.”
WOW: Former Graham Platner political director on his alleged N*zi tattoo:
“He knows damn well what it means.” pic.twitter.com/RiontPqY7y
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) October 21, 2025
That should be true but Platner, like Jay Jones in Virginia, isn’t dropping out. And already there are leftists rallying to his side to defend him.
“Sure, he’s a Nazi, but it’s not like he supports genocide” pic.twitter.com/TOHBqhgmio
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) October 22, 2025
Scott Jennings sums up where lefty Democrats are at:
Latest requirements for lefty political support:
1. Promise to murder Republican opponents and their children
2. Nazi tattoo
What’s next? pic.twitter.com/hB1VlBLEZ2
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 22, 2025
The Nazi tattoo is a big one but it’s not the only story about Platner making the rounds. There’s also this.
Graham Platner is a self-described communist running for U.S. Senate in Maine who has previously described health care as a “basic human right”; but he is not paying for his staff’s health insurance, a Washington Reporter review of his campaign finance disclosures shows.
Platner’s campaign raised over $3 million in his highly-touted campaign for Senate, but despite how he rails against the current health insurance system as a “disaster,” he does not appear to provide the type of coverage to his employees that he seems to believe is a necessity.
Which story will be more upsetting to his voters. It’s hard to tell these days.
Finally, Politico reports there is still more to come. We haven’t reached the bottom of the Platner oppo-barrel yet.
There is more to come, I’m told by sources very familiar with the Platner opposition file who spoke on the condition of anonymity. And some of it will be even more localized, which will make for ready-made targeted mail and digital ads from his opponent
I’ve learned, for example, that in 2020, Platner went online and called the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office a den of “overweight pansies” and flatly said: “cops are opportunistic cowards.”
You can guess how many Mainers in and around Hancock County, a rural region outside its summer resort enclaves, are related to or friends with law enforcement officers there.
You probably already know that as recently as 2020, Platner was saying on Reddit that all cops are bastards and referred to himself as an Antifa Supersoldier. He denied believing that, claiming he was just talking on the internet. But a few additional attacks on police are going to make this issue pretty hard to sidestep.
At this point, he really should be done as a candidate, but in the modern Democratic Party he’s still hanging on.
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