The Graham Platner controversy erupted this week after the Maine Senate Democrat candidate admitted he has a Nazi-style tattoo on his chest—revealed during a friendly interview on the left-wing podcast Pod Save the World, hosted by former Obama aides Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing a political firestorm after his own political director resigned in protest over a flood of offensive Reddit posts targeting white rural Americans, police officers, and sexual assault victims.
Self-described communist Graham Platner—a Democrat hoping to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)—is under fire for calling being accused of watching CNN “even more insulting than calling me retard.”