“Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner kept his hideous Nazi tattoo to remind himself ‘the US was the evil bad guy overseas,’ according to an ex-girlfriend with whom he cheated on his fiancée in 2021. The left-wing streamer” is “the second woman to say that Platner knew about the fascist origin of his Totenkopf skull and crossbones tattoo — despite his claims that he didn’t realize it was a Third Reich symbol until last fall,” reports The New York Post.
“Her assertions were backed up by texts reviewed by The Post that she’d sent to her mom in September 2025 in which she blasted him for his ‘Nazi tattoo,’ ‘small d—k’ and claims that he tarnished her reputation by using her to step out on his fiancée.”
As The Daily Caller notes,
Platner faced serious accusations throughout his campaign, most recently from a former girlfriend who described how Platner had been physically rough with her during their relationship. Lyndsey Fifield, the former girlfriend who was quoted in a New York Times story, described how Platner had once grabbed her shoulders so hard that he left marks, that he locked her in a room overnight after a heated argument, and that he pulled her out of a cab by her wrists.
Another scandal that has hovered over the Platner campaign includes the leaked sexually explicit text messages Platner had sent to multiple women in the early days of his marriage, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. These messages were notably turned over by one of Platner’s former campaign staffers who was shown the messages by his wife in the early days of the campaign.
The infamous Nazi tattoo similarly loomed over most of his campaign, with Platner eventually getting a cover-up tattoo. The tattoo was originally of a Totenkopf that he got while he was on leave with his fellow Marines in Split, Croatia.
The wife of Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner warned his own campaign last summer that he had traded sexually explicit messages with several women, a disclosure that stayed buried until two weeks ago.
Amy Gertner found the messages in the spring of 2025 and told a campaign aide about them in late August, only days after Platner launched his bid, according to the Wall Street Journal. Staffers were running opposition research on their own candidate at the time.
Rather than treat the texts as a liability, aides waved them off as a private affair the couple was working through in counseling, the Wall Street Journal reported.
