Democratic Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner lied about not knowing the true meaning of his “Totenkopf” Nazi symbol tattoo, according to his ex-girlfriend.
Platner, a few months after the announcement of his Senate campaign, was bombarded with questions about the ink on his chest, which depicted a skull-and-crossbones — widely recognized as a symbol for the Nazi SS death squads.
The wannabe senator maintained that he thought it was merely a “terrifying skull and crossbones,” telling Politico in a statement in October that he “absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest” if he knew the meaning of the tattoo.
Platner, however, knew exactly what the hateful ink represented, his ex-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, 40, told the New York Times.
When the pair dated years ago, Platner would call the tattoo “my Totenkopf,” Fifield alleged in the bombshell report.
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“I would never have known what that was,” she told the outlet. “He would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.”
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