Dem Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner made sexually explicit Reddit comments: report
The posts include explicit jokes and insults, while Platner has apologized and still leads primary rivals in several polls, analysts said.
- 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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