SCOOP @J_Insider via @matthewkassel: "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" https://jewishinsider.com/2025...
"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
"“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 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
"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."
Platner, who is running to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said he had gotten the tattoo in Split, Croatia, in 2007, when he and a group of “very inebriated” fellow Marines had time on deployment and decided to step into a parlor. Platner, on Pod Save America: “We chose a
@JoshKraushaar @henryolsenEPPC @J_Insider @matthewkassel Janet mills is really trying to dirty him up. She’s behind these claims. The old hag doesn’t want to go quietly into the night like a lot of Ds. She wants to work in government forever and make government bigger like she did in Maine.
@JoshKraushaar @J_Insider @matthewkassel One can honestly say, "I am not a secret Nazi," if one is not secretive about his/her Naziism. So, there's that.
@JoshKraushaar @J_Insider @matthewkassel Let me know when an independent publication speaks on this.
@JoshKraushaar @J_Insider @matthewkassel "I am not a witch"
@JoshKraushaar @J_Insider @matthewkassel uh-oh, nazi tattoos: what could go wrong with that person??!!
@JoshKraushaar @J_Insider @matthewkassel @SenatorLuma it's his little totenkopf how cute
@JoshKraushaar @J_Insider @matthewkassel All his Reddit posts are very anti-nazi, however. Seems he is not fond of them.