Graham Platner can’t seem to get his story straight. He recently sat down with the New York Times and continued to spread his lies about his wealthy upbringing, his time in the military, and his Nazi tattoo.
We fact checked Platner so you don’t have to:
- Platner clearly says “I’ve never been close to money, I’ve never been close to power,” yet his grandfather is a world famous architect, his father is a prominent attorney who sent him to an elite boarding school, and his mother is a well-known Democrat operative.
- Platner admits that his father bought his house, forcing The New Yorker to correct a previous article where Platner claimed to have bought his house with a VA loan.
- Platner said, “Susan Collins voted to send me to Iraq,” but in reality Platner enlisted two years after the war started and told the NYT, “I am still proud of being a Marine.”
- Platner doubled down on the claim that his Nazi tattoo was a “skull and crossbones,” but Platner is a military history buff who knows what the tattoo means and those around him have said he referred to the tattoo as “my Totenkopf” years ago.
- After months of blaming Chuck Schumer for “dropp[ing] all this opposition research,” Platner got flustered and admitted he actually orchestrated it himself, saying, “we released all of the comments… we just put everything out there.”
- Platner claims that he and his wife make $60,000 a year combined, when in reality his wife makes $27,000 a year and he makes $60,600 a year.
- Platner claims they don’t have money to put in a retirement account, but his personal financial disclosure proves that they actually do have a retirement account.
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