Alana Goodman writes for the Washington Free Beacon about another disturbing revelation involving Maine’s Democratic US Senate candidate.
In the wake of the U.S. strike that took out longtime Iranian terror chief Qassem Soleimani, a Reddit user posting under the handle “RevolutionaryCommie” denounced America’s “ghoulish” and “disgusting” response to Soleimani’s death, writing, “They are a disgraceful country.” The comment earned an endorsement from left-wing Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who responded, “I can’t disagree.”
The remark from “RevolutionaryCommie” came in response to an original post highlighting President Donald Trump’s famous American flag tweet sent after the January 2020 strike killed Soleimani, then the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans during the Iraq war. The self-described communist Redditor took issue with the “responses to the tweet: the racism, the cheering death, the calling for more killings, the mocking of the dead,” calling it “the most ghoulish and disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. They are a disgraceful country.” Platner, using the alias “P-Hustle,” responded with his endorsement.
“I’m an American, and I can’t disagree with you tonight,” he wrote.
The comment, which has not been previously reported, is the latest in a series of remarks from Platner denigrating the United States and its military veterans.
Months before his Soleimani-inspired remark, in June 2019, Platner—who also referred to himself as a “communist” on Reddit—denigrated a Purple Heart recipient, Teddy Daniels, who was shown in a then-viral video being shot by Taliban fighters amid a firefight in Afghanistan. Daniels had purposely moved into open fire to draw attention away from his fellow soldiers. Platner called him a “dumb motherf—er” who “didn’t deserve to live.”
“This video never gets old,” Platner wrote. “Dumb motherf—er didn’t deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home.”
