A second woman has come forward to claim that Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner was fully aware of the Nazi origins of his chest tattoo, contradicting his previous claims of ignorance.
The woman, who dated Platner in 2021, said she immediately recognized the tattoo as a Totenkopf symbol used by Adolf Hitler's SS troops in Nazi Germany.
According to the woman, Platner told her that he got the tattoo as a reminder that the United States was the 'evil, bad guy overseas,' and that he kept it as a symbol of his military history buff persona.
The woman's account is backed up by text messages she sent to her mother and a friend, in which she referred to the tattoo as Platner's 'Nazi tattoo.'
This is not the first time a former partner has made such claims against Platner, with another ex-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, previously recalling how Platner would joke about the tattoo being a 'Nazi tattoo.'
Platner's campaign has maintained that he 'picked a skull and crossbones tattoo off a wall in Croatia to commemorate surviving Ramadi and his friends who were killed there,' but the latest allegations have raised further questions about his honesty.
