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Hero Vet Whom Graham Platner Said Didn't Deserve to Live Unleashes Tactical Brilliance, Leaves Dems in Painful Dilemma

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Hero Vet Whom Graham Platner Said Didn't Deserve to Live Unleashes Tactical Brilliance, Leaves Dems in Painful Dilemma

The Purple Heart recipient, whom Maine U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner said didn’t deserve to live, responded in a way that left Democrat backers of the candidate with no legitimate response.

In his since-deleted Reddit account, Platner wrote in 2019, “This video never gets old,” referring to viral footage taken by PFC Ted Daniels’s helmet cam during a clash with Taliban fighters in 2012.

“Dumb motherf***er didn’t deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat a** wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible s*** decision possible when it comes to small unit combat,” Platner, a U.S. Marine Corps and Army veteran who served three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, wrote on the platform.

Daniels — 37 and a father of two when the gunfight took place — earned the Purple Heart after being hit four........

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