Dem Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner made sexually explicit Reddit comments: report
The posts include sexual jokes, racist remarks and comments mocking a wounded soldier, and Platner says he is deeply sorry.
- Fox News reported on Tuesday about unearthed Reddit posts from Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, revealing bizarre comments about portable toilets and graffiti made years ago while deployed in the military.
- In a 2017 Reddit post, Platner recalled masturbating in portable toilets, noting the "blue water smell conditioned me," and four years later, he praised phallic graffiti he described as "beautiful, engorged and veiny."
- These posts follow previous controversies involving Platner, who last year disavowed online comments calling Americans "racist" and police officers "bastards," and faced scrutiny for a tattoo resembling a Nazi Totenkopf.
- Platner apologized in a video message last fall, stating "I can honestly say that that is me just being an assh*le on the Internet," and cited mental health struggles after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Despite these reports, Platner leads his primary opponents in several surveys and is positioned to secure the Democratic Senate nomination next month, aiming to move past his online history.
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Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden rips Platner for ‘barbaric’ post trashing soldier under fire: ‘Out of line’
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Robert O’Neill, the U.S. Navy SEAL who is credited with killing Osama bin Laden, is weighing in on the unearthed social media posts from Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner that have caused an uproar in recent days. “Mr. Platner was way out of line talking about a soldier that way,” O’Neill told Fox News Digital days after a resurfaced Reddit post showed Platner trashing a s…
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