Allegations:
- He knew the tattoo was a Nazi symbol.
- Called it “my Totenkopf.”
- He picked SS death’s head on purpose: “They were killers.”
- Joked about it being a Nazi tattoo while dating.
- Mistreated women.
- Threatened one woman. Violent at times.
- Is a drunk.
Graham Platner, the Nazi-turned-communist Democrat running for the U.S. Senate from Maine, was written up by The New York Times. It seems like a balanced piece in that some women made excuses for him and found him exhilarating and charming. However, he is also described as a chauvinistic pig by three of his many long-term girlfriends.
He paints himself as a victim, suffering with PTSD, which he may or may not have, but there’s little excuse for his misogyny and threatening behavior. That’s who he is.
The best part of the Platner drama is this:
But [Lyndsey Fifield] said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders—sometimes hard enough to leave marks—and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car. During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom, and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.” Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning. The Times also goes into Platner’s threats of sexual violence: He had what she described as a “warrior ethos” and would fantasize about killing people he deemed a threat, she said. She said he told her that rape was about power. It was something that stuck with her through the years, Ms. Fifield said. “He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”
Excerpt from The New York Times
But in extensive conversations over the past two months, three other women who had been romantically involved with Mr. Platner offered a far more complicated assessment, describing volatile and “toxic” relationships that were unsettling and at times emotionally wrenching.
Mr. Platner could be charming and charismatic, they recalled in interviews, but also demeaning to women and, in at least one case, even physically threatening. He drank heavily and was regularly unfaithful.
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The disclosures last week that Mr. Platner, now married, was exchanging sexual messages with women as recently as last year have complicated that narrative and unnerved Democrats, who see the Maine seat as key to their efforts to regain control of the Senate.
Lyndsey Fifield, 40, a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns, recalled him as “cavalierly contemptuous of women’s emotions, of our ‘weakness.’” Ms. Fifield, who dated Mr. Platner from roughly 2013 to 2015, said that his offensive online posts “reminded me of just how much he hated women.”
Jenny Racicot, 41, a Maine Democrat, who said she dated him casually off and on between 2019 and 2021, said the posts deepened her belief that he did not respect women. “When I saw the old comments that he made online,” she said, “I recognized a version of him that I had experiences with.”
Some of the women also raised questions about his trustworthiness. Mr. Platner’s insistence that he did not know that his tattoo was a Nazi symbol until it became a campaign issue last fall was simply not true, Ms. Fifield said. After all, she said, he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as “my Totenkopf.”
Oh, and there’s the violence…
During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom, and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.” Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.
“It hurt,” she said. But she added: “It didn’t cause an injury; it didn’t break my arm.”
Mr. Platner “strongly disputes” any claims of physical intimidation or altercations, his campaign said. The Times could not independently corroborate Ms. Fifield’s account of the altercations.
Ms. Fifield also recalled that Mr. Platner’s displays of weaponry and discussions of violence sometimes left her uneasy.
I can’t wait for the next drop on this pornographic life of Graham Platner. This guy grosses me out.
Senate candidate Graham Platner from Maine shows off his real N*zi tattoo of the SS Totenkopf.
Remember this next time Democrats falsely accuse Republicans of being N*zis.
Every accusation by Democrats is an admission of guilt. pic.twitter.com/DVlYmI124V
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) October 22, 2025
