A new report from CNN further proves that Graham Platner knew for years that he had a Nazi SS Totenkopf or “death’s head” symbol tattooed on his chest, despite claiming he had just learned what the symbol meant.
This comes on the heels of Jewish Insider reporting that an old acquaintance of Platner’s remembers him bragging about his Nazi tattoo at a Capitol Hill bar years ago, “He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’ and after Platner’s political director said Platner “knows damn well what it means.“
As reported by CNN:
In one thread from 2019, Platner weighed in on a conversation about the “Totenkopf” … to note that many US service members had adopted similar imagery, such as the Punisher skull used by some Navy SEALs.
Using his longtime Reddit handle P-Hustle, the former Marine infantryman and future Democratic Senate hopeful also argued in a 2020 online discussion that “SS” lightning-bolt tattoos were a “culture” marker within Marine Scout Sniper units, not an expression of White supremacist ideology.
When commenters in the 2020 thread described the lightning bolts as a Nazi or racist symbol, Platner dismissed the criticism, writing that outsiders “have no idea what they’re talking about” and added, “I will be sure to inform the Black guys I know with bolts that they’re Nazis now.”
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CNN also spoke with an acquaintance of Platner from more than a decade ago who said Platner spoke about his tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol. A second person told CNN that they learned of the tattoo years ago from the acquaintance, who told them that Platner had described it as a Nazi-style design.
CNN also reviewed a text chain between the acquaintance and another person discussing Platner’s Nazi-like tattoo several months ago, before the story became public.
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