I suspect there is a giant sign in the campaign headquarters of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, counting the number of days since the candidate has been connected to the Nazis or antisemitism. Platner – who insists he is not a secret Nazi, and claims to be a military history buff – says he accidentally got a tattoo of the Totenkopf death’s head symbol of the Nazi SS, and never recognized it as a Nazi symbol for 18 years. Platner’s former political director tells a different version of the story.

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Either way, that sign just got set back to zero.

Graham Platner, a far-left Senate candidate in Maine, amplified a social media post on Thursday from a far-right conspiracy theorist well-known for viciously antisemitic commentary — before quickly deleting the statement. In a comment to X late Thursday morning, Platner approvingly boosted a remark from Stew Peters, an extremist radio host who has frequently promoted antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial, calling a war with Iran “the only thing Republicans and Democrats have both given a standing ovation for.” …The Anti-Defamation League has described Peters as a “prolific antisemite” who blames “‘the Jews’ for everything he believes is wrong with society,” while the Southern Poverty Law Center has said his radio show has “become a central hub for antisemitic and conspiratorial content.” He has said Judaism is “satanic” and a “death cult,” promoted blood libels, called for a “final solution” to mass-deport American Jews and questioned the existence of gas chambers that exterminated Jews during the Holocaust, among other conspiratorial assertions.

Graham Platner, a far-left Senate candidate in Maine, amplified a social media post on Thursday from a far-right conspiracy theorist well-known for viciously antisemitic commentary — before quickly deleting the statement.

In a comment to X late Thursday morning, Platner approvingly boosted a remark from Stew Peters, an extremist radio host who has frequently promoted antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial, calling a war with Iran “the only thing Republicans and Democrats have both given a standing ovation for.”

…The Anti-Defamation League has described Peters as a “prolific antisemite” who blames “‘the Jews’ for everything he believes is wrong with society,” while the Southern Poverty Law Center has said his radio show has “become a central hub for antisemitic and conspiratorial content.”

He has said Judaism is “satanic” and a “death cult,” promoted blood libels, called for a “final solution” to mass-deport American Jews and questioned the existence of gas chambers that exterminated Jews during the Holocaust, among other conspiratorial assertions.

Asked for comment, a Platner campaign spokesman, retired Army sergeant Hans Schultz stated, “For ze thoustandth time, it vus just a ko-vinky-dink zat ze tweet vus from a Neo-Nazi, just like it vus a ko-vinky-dink zat ze tattoo un his chest vus ze Death’s Head Totenkopf symbol of ze Schutzstaffel! Lots of Volk accidentally do Neo-Nazi zings all ze time!”

Nah, I’m just kidding. They claimed it was an oversight and that they had no idea that Peters was a raving antisemite.

But Platner is strangely enthusiastic about putting people onto trains.

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