Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner is a woman-hater who once twisted an ex-girlfriend’s arm — and fantasized about killing people and raping intruders, according to a slew of women who’ve come forward to out his disturbing behavior.
The Democrat candidate also boasted about having a Nazi tattoo, calling it “my Totenkopf,” one ex recalled — contradicting his October claim that he thought it was merely a “terrifying skull and crossbones.”
Totenkopf is an image that was adopted as a symbol by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, or SS.
Three of Platner’s ex-girlfriends recounted their troubling time dating the Marine veteran to the New York Times, with the women describing him as someone who “hated women,” referring to them as “hatchet wounds” in the latest scandal to dog his campaign.
“He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them” — and “not in a gay way,” said 40-year-old Lyndsey Fifield, who dated Platner from 2013 to 2015. “He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant.”
It was also Fifield’s arm Platner reportedly once twisted during an argument — before he shoved her in a bedroom and wouldn’t let her leave until she was “calm.:
“It hurt,” Fifield told the Times. “It didn’t cause an injury, it didn’t break my arm.”
Platner disputed Fifield’s claims, referring to Fifield — a Republican campaign worker — as a “lifelong G.O.P. operative”
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