It’s 3:58 PM on Wednesday afternoon, and Graham Platner ’s campaign is sending me shirtless photos. I’m about to drive an hour to Ogunquit, Maine to attend Platner’s first town hall since the surfacing of unsavory and offensive deleted Reddit posts kicked off a week of tumultuous headlines for the oyster farmer turned politician, the Bernie Sanders -anointed Democratic frontrunner in the race to unseat Susan Collins . And in this case, sending half-naked photos to a journalist isn’t the latest scandal—it’s fact-checking backup.

In the two days since Platner’s campaign revealed that, for years, the candidate had a chest tattoo that starkly resembled a “Totenkopf” used in SS insignia and neo-Nazi iconography, the story has lived several online lives. By the time Platner spoke to me

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