The second woman came forward and said Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Plattner He is fully aware that the tattoo on his chest is a Nazi symbol, which directly contradicts his repeated claims that he does not know the origin of the tattoo. However, the woman who dated Platner in 2021 said something different.
Plattner, a 41-year-old Army veteran and oyster farmer, drew widespread criticism for his skull and crossbones tattoo on his chest amid reports that it resembled the “Totenkopf” symbol used by Adolf Hitler’s SS in Nazi Germany. Plattner insisted he only learned of the connection from “journalists and DC insiders” and had the tattoo covered with a new design in late October 2025.
What my ex-girlfriend said
The woman told new york post She met Plattner on Tinder and dated him in 2021 after moving to Maine for work. She said she recognized the tattoo immediately when she saw it. “As a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that Totenkopf?’ and he told me the whole ‘he’s going to carry this weight forever’ bravado sad story, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that America is the evil bad guy abroad,” she told The Washington Post.
She said Plattner told her someone in his military leadership suggested the entire crew get skull and crossbones tattoos because he was a military history buff.
Her account is supported by Short message In September 2025, The Washington Post reviewed the tattoos, which she sent to her mother before they were made public, and she called them “Nazi tattoos.” In another message to a friend, she wrote: “Better not peek at the Nazi tattoo on his chest.”
The woman said she never planned to come forward, but felt compelled to take action after seeing Plattner’s pattern of lying to people. maine About tattoos, according to the New York Post.
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Another ex questions Plattner’s tattoo explanation
Well, this isn’t the first time a former partner has made such a claim. Earlier this month, another former lover, Lyndsey Fifield, told The New York Times that Plattner was lying when he said he didn’t know the tattoo’s Nazi origins and recalled how he called it “my Totenkopf.” “I’ll never know what it was,” she told The Times. “He would joke that it was a Nazi tattoo.” The Times reviewed messages from Fifield last summer in which she told friends he had a “Nazi tattoo on his chest.”
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She said he told her he got the title because “they were like a death force, they were killers” and saw similarities to the Nazi SS.
Plattner’s campaign insists, however, that he “plucked a skull and crossbones tattoo from a wall in Croatia to honor the surviving Ramadi and his friends who were killed there,” a campaign spokesperson told The Washington Post.
The campaign also noted that Plattner underwent a comprehensive background check to join the ambassador’s security team in Afghanistan and that concerns about the tattoo never arose.
