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fromAxios
4 days ago

"I am not a secret Nazi": Maine Senate candidate responds to tattoo accusations

Platner's shirtless video revealed a skull tattoo resembling the Nazi Totenkopf, triggering GOP accusations and his explanation that it was drunken wartime ink.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

I'm not a secret Nazi': Maine Democratic Senate candidate addresses tattoo

In a video interview with Pod Save America that aired on Monday, Platner said he and fellow marines got matching tattoos at a parlor in Split, Croatia, in 2007 while deployed overseas. He said that he wanted to address the issues himself before opponents could weaponize them, saying there isn't anything worse or different than his problematic Reddit posts that have come back to bite his campaign in recent days, and insisting that he had no knowledge of the imagery's historical associations.
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