{"id":2501623,"date":"2025-10-21T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/platner-denies-hes-secret-nazi-after-ss-skull-tattoo-revealed\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:07:07","slug":"platner-denies-hes-secret-nazi-after-ss-skull-tattoo-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/platner-denies-hes-secret-nazi-after-ss-skull-tattoo-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Platner denies he&#8217;s &#8216;secret Nazi&#8217; after SS skull tattoo revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fplatner-denies-hes-secret-nazi-after-ss-skull-tattoo-revealed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2501623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing controversy after an old video showed him shirtless with a large Totenkopf tattoo, a symbol infamously associated with hitler&#8217;s SS and Nazi extermination camps. Platner denied being a &#8220;secret nazi,&#8221; explaining he got the tattoo while intoxicated during military leave and was unaware of its meaning,saying he chose it because it looked like a &#8220;terrifying skull and crossbones.&#8221; The controversy follows previous backlash over Platner&#8217;s Reddit posts from 2020-2021, where he identified as a communist and expressed strong anti-police sentiments, for which he later apologized.Despite the turmoil, the Democratic Party, including DNC Chairman Ken Martin, has largely stood by Platner, emphasizing belief in second chances and sincere apologies. However, the campaign&#8217;s political director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-congress-must-open-a-probe-into-security-failures-at-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor: Congre... must open a probe into security failures at U.S. Capitol\">resigned amid<\/a> the scandal. Platner maintains his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comedian-fired-from-snl-over-offensive-comments-makes-comeback-as-host\/\" title=\"Fired SNL comedian returns as host after offensive remarks\">past comments reflect<\/a> his opposition to Nazism, antisemitism, and racism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Maine Senate hopeful Platner denies he&rsquo;s &lsquo;secret Nazi&rsquo; after SS skull tattoo revealed<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2377740\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/maine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maine<\/a> Democratic Senate hopeful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3856438\/ken-martin-graham-platner-posts-maine-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graham Platner<\/a> came under fire once again after an old picture surfaced showing him with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vanished-off-the-face-of-the-earth-missing-womans-phone-discovered-covered-in-blood\/\" title=\"\u2018Vanished Off The Face Of The Earth\u2019: Mi...ing Woman\u2019s Phone Discovered Covered In Blood\">large tattoo<\/a> of one of the Nazis&rsquo; most infamous symbols.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Platner apologized for posts he made on Reddit as recently as 2021, in which he called himself a communist and outlined his hatred for &ldquo;all&rdquo; police. He&rsquo;s now under fire for a move supporting the opposite end of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3858811\/bernie-sanders-stands-embattled-maine-senate-graham-platner\/\">Bernie Sanders stands by embattled Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3858139\/ed-gallrein-campaign-challenging-thomas-massie\/\">Ed Gallrein answers Trump&#8217;s call to primary Thomas Massie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3857545\/independent-senate-hopeful-dan-osborn-democratic-donors\/\">Independent Senate hopeful Dan Osborn cashes in on Democratic donors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>On Monday, a video emerged of Platner lip-syncing shirtless, showing a massive Totenkopf tattoo on his breast. The Totenkopf, or Death&rsquo;s Head, symbol is best known as the symbol of Hitler&rsquo;s SS, responsible for the worst crimes of the Nazis. The SS-Totenkopfverb&auml;nde, or Death&rsquo;s Head Units, were the organization responsible for running the Nazis&rsquo; extermination camps.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Tommy Vietor of Pod Save America, Platner insisted he was &ldquo;not a secret Nazi.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Senate hopeful, he got the tattoo while on leave in Croatia with his fellow Marines, at a time when he was &ldquo;very inebriated.&rdquo; He said the hate symbol was only chosen because it was &ldquo;a terrifying looking skull and crossbones,&rdquo; and he didn&rsquo;t know the deeper meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Platner then shifted his criticism to those who uncovered the video, arguing in response, &ldquo;Did anybody ever once say &mdash; &lsquo;Hey, you&rsquo;re a Nazi.&rsquo; It never came up until we got wind that in the opposition research, somebody was shopping the idea that I was a secret Nazi with a hidden Nazi tattoo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Franco Center in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (Libby Kenny\/Sun Journal via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a move likely to complicate his previous distancing from his controversial social media history, Platner sought vindication through his past Reddit comments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Actually, if you read through my Reddit comments, I think you can pretty much figure out where I stand on Nazism and antisemitism and racism in general,&rdquo; Platner said.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Democrat earned national attention last week when CNN published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/16\/politics\/kfile-graham-platner-maine-senate-candidate-deleted-reddit-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> revealing recent posts made by a Reddit account linked to him, which he then confirmed. In the posts, Platner identified as a &ldquo;psychedelics taking socialist&rdquo; and &ldquo;communist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In one post made in 2020, Platner responded to a post saying, &ldquo;White people aren&rsquo;t as racist or stupid as Trump thinks&rdquo; by writing, &ldquo;Living in white rural America, I&rsquo;m afraid to tell you they actually are.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Platner&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >account repeatedly called people &#038;ldquo<\/a>;retarded.&rdquo; He publicly apologized for his posts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3856438\/ken-martin-graham-platner-posts-maine-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DNC CHAIRMAN STANDS BY PLATNER IN MAINE SENATE RACE OVER &lsquo;INDEFENSIBLE&rsquo; DELETED POSTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His campaign&rsquo;s political director, former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald, resigned amid the controversy on Friday. However, the Democratic Party is largely sticking by him. Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin said he accepted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-debate-win-means-nothing-if-the-gop-doesnt-chase-ballots\/\" title=\"Trump&#039;s Debate Win Means Nothing If The GOP Doesn&#039;t Chase Ballots\">candidate&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s apology.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re indefensible, they&rsquo;re hurtful, and they&rsquo;re offensive,&rdquo; he said of the posts on CNN&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>State of the Union<\/em>. &ldquo;The question, though, is, I believe in second chances. I believe a lot of people say things at their most vulnerable times. They say things when they&rsquo;re young that, again, are offensive, and the question for me is whether or not they actually learn from them, whether or not they actually reflect on those, that they&rsquo;re sincere in their apology, and, more importantly, that they have changed their behavior.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Senate candidate Platner denies being a &#8216;secret Nazi&#8217; after SS skull tattoo surfaces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2501624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25293626326255.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[65502,65646,65647],"class_list":["post-2501623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-platner","tag-secret-nazi","tag-ss-skull-tattoo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25293626326255.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501627,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501623\/revisions\/2501627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}