The Federal Agency Nazi-Tattooed Graham Platner Wants Erased

Facing increasing questions about his personal character, embattled Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner is ramping up the leftist rhetoric. 

Platner posted a video on Thursday showing clips from a recent speech where he called for the abolition of ICE, claiming that the agency has been used to “terrorize” and “murder” Americans. The video comes after reports revealed that Platner sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women while married. He also maintained an account on a platform frequently criticized by child-safety advocates, as first reported by The Daily Wire. 

“We do not need ICE. It is an agency that has been turned into a political weapon by the Trump administration to terrorize communities, and, quite frankly, murder American citizens in the streets,” Platner said. 

“It has been turned into a tool, not to enforce immigration law, but merely as a tool of political coercion. And an agency that’s been doing that, in my opinion, does not deserve to exist in the future,” Platner added. 

While some Democrats have attempted to distance themselves from complete opposition to ICE, the agency in charge of arresting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes against Americans, Platner has doubled down on his calls to get rid of the agency. 

Platner is looking to be the Democrat nominee for Maine to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins. If elected, Platner said he would never vote to fund the agency and work to “get rid of it entirely.” 

“If an agency has a culture in which it has no accountability, and people are essentially incentivized to go out of their way and break the rules, you can’t reform that,” he said. “There’s no amount of body cams or extra training that’s going to fix that. You need to get rid of it all and you just start over entirely.”

In recent days, Platner’s campaign has been rocked by reports of his previous sexual escapades. On Tuesday, Platner met with top Senate Democrats who asked him if there would be any more serious allegations against him they needed to know about. He insisted that no credible allegations of sexual assault were forthcoming.

“It’s not a secret I’ve had a messy, complicated life,” he told senators. “The worst of the rumors we’ve all heard are not true.”