Bernie Sanders is defending the Democrat Maine senate candidate Graham Platner, who – up until this week – had an actual Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.
Platner has also made racist, homophobic, and sexist comments on the internet forum ‘Reddit’ over the years, a fact which Sanders also dismisses.
Democrats and the media falsely accused War Secretary Pete Hegseth of having Nazi tattoos. Now, they’re defending a leftist who really has a Nazi tattoo. You couldn’t make this up.
FOX News reports:
Bernie Sanders defends Maine Senate candidate under fire for Reddit comments
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is standing firm behind Maine Democrat Graham Platner, a first-time Senate hopeful facing outrage over a Nazi-style tattoo and resurfaced Reddit posts.
Sanders, in an interview with Axios, blamed the media for the fury about the tattoo and Platner’s deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he said he went through a challenging chapter in his life.
“I’m not overly impressed by a squad of media running around saying, ‘what do you think about the tattoo on Graham Platner’s chest,’” Sanders told Axios on “The Axios Show.”…
Despite the disarray, Sanders is doubling down on his support of Platner, who is contesting a crowded field. He told the outlet that Platner “went into a dark period in his life” regarding the online posts.
“I suspect that Graham Platner is not the only American to have gone through a dark period,” Sanders said. “What he did was he expressed his darkness on the internet. Probably not a brilliant thing to do, alright? And he said things that are stupid, things that were hurtful. He has apologized for them.”
Here’s the video:
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders completely dismisses Graham Platner’s literal Nazi tattoo, saying it doesn’t bother him.
This is the same Bernie who attack Pete Hegseth for a Jerusalem Cross tattoo and refers to Trump as a “fascist.” pic.twitter.com/OJ47zygzg5
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 23, 2025
Platner has since covered the tattoo with another, this one of a Celtic wolf.
Also, it is being reported that he offered his former campaign director (who quit over this scandal) a bunch of cash in the form of a nondisclosure agreement. He was trying to hush it all up. She refused.
BREAKING: Graham Platner’s former campaign political director, Genevieve McDonald, says she was offered a $15,000 payment conditioned on signing a non-disclosure agreement as part of the recent shake-up in his Maine Senate campaign.
McDonald refused to sign and later stated that… pic.twitter.com/Mse2kdYDW1
— Maine State Press (@MaineStatePress) October 23, 2025
On top of all of this, he is now the frontrunner in the Maine senate Democrat primary. The Democrats are voting for the guy with the real Nazi tattoo. It’s all beyond parody.