Graham Platner —the oyster-farming former Marine from Downeast Maine who vocally supports LGBTQIA rights and is currently running to unseat Republican incumbent Susan Collins —has had a hell of a week, and it’s only Wednesday. Days after he faced backlash for controversial resurfaced old social media posts and Platner’s political director, Genevieve McDonald , resigned, Platner’s campaign revealed that Platner has a stylized skull and crossbones tattoo on his chest that appears to be a Totenkopf , or “death’s head”—a symbol associated with the Nazi party and white supremacy.

Platner says that he got the ink in 2007 during a drunken night out in Croatia with a few fellow machine gunners, and that he picked the image at random from options displayed on the wall of the tattoo parl

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