The Patriot Post® · Dems' Platner Problem Gets Worse

Excusing the Nazi-tattooed, antisemitic, sexting, womanizing, veteran-disparaging, Marxist-promoting Democrat candidate running for Maine’s Senate seat is getting more difficult by the day.

We can now add to the list of Graham Platner’s disqualifications seriously toxic relationships with ex-girlfriends, toward whom he engaged in a pattern of “intimidating and disturbing” behavior. As The New York Times put it, “The Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine could be charming, women said in interviews, but some found his actions intimidating and disturbing.”

For one thing, Lyndsey Fifield, who dated Platner from roughly 2013 to 2015, says that Platner’s story about his Nazi tattoo — that he did not realize it was a Nazi symbol — is bogus.

Fifield explains that Platner called it “my Totenkopf.” She said, “I would never have known what that was. He would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.” He then explained to her that the members of his military unit purposely chose the Nazi symbol for the tattoo because “they were like a death unit, they were killers.” She added, “They literally, deliberately, selected it because it was relevant to their military unit.”

While Platner has continued to deny knowledge that his tattoo was a Nazi symbol, he did not dispute other claims by Fifield, simply responding, “I take responsibility for all of that, and wish I had been better.” However, he then spun her story as politically motivated, saying, “Any characterization beyond that is false, and I believe, politically motivated. I’m not proud of who I was then, but I am proud of the work I’ve done since, and the movement we are building in Maine.”

Fifield also noted some seriously disturbing comments he would make. “He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them," she relayed. He explained it was not in "a sexual way, not in a gay way,” she added. “He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant.”

It wasn’t just disturbing comments. The Times reports, “During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was ‘calm.’ Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.” For what it’s worth, Platner “strongly disputes” this.

The Times interviewed another woman, Jenny Racicot, who had dated Platner off and on from 2019 to 2021. “When I saw the old comments [disparaging women] that he made online,” she said, “I recognized a version of him that I had experiences with.”

Both Fifield and Racicot believe that Platner holds a deep disdain for women, and Fifield also accused the Times of omitting some of the evidence. No surprise there.

Despite the new negative revelations that continue to emerge regarding Platner’s poor character, the Democrat Party has maintained its support for his candidacy, albeit amid growing expressions of disagreement and distancing from his odious record.

For example, Senator Bernie Sanders, who has been a steadfast proponent of Platner, largely due to his socialist ideals, said, “I’m not confident of anything” regarding any possible further revelations. He then deflected, “I didn’t get any assurances; alright, we got other things to worry about right now. We’re worried about massive income and wealth inequality and a corrupt campaign finance system. Why don’t you write about that?”

In other words, so long as the polling appears to be in Platner’s favor, don’t expect many Democrats to reject him. That’s because they believe it’s completely worth destroying their most-often-referenced moral objection to President Donald Trump for the outside possibility of capturing control of the Senate.