Drudge Report - Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts reviewed by CNN’s KFile.
Most of the posts were made five years ago under Platner’s then-Reddit handle P-Hustle. They were deleted ahead of his campaign launch in August.
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U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is disavowing a series of now-deleted social media posts in which he criticized police and said that white rural Americans “actually are” racist and stupid. The Reddit posts from 2020 and 2021 were resurfaced this week by CNN. In an interview with the Press Herald Thursday, Platner said the posts came from a time when he was disillusioned and angry, and they don’t reflect who he is today.
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U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is disavowing a series of now-deleted social media posts in which he criticized police and said that white rural Americans “actually are” racist and stupid. The Reddit posts from 2020 and 2021 were resurfaced this week by CNN. In an interview with the Press Herald Thursday, Platner said the posts came from a time when he was disillusioned and angry, and they don’t reflect who he is today.