A leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine took the unusual step of disclosing that he has a tattoo that has been linked to Nazis.
In an extended interview on “Pod Save America” that first aired Monday night, Graham Platner said he and other fellow Marines got a skull tattoo while drunk on leave in Croatia in 2007, without knowing about its association with Nazi Germany.
“We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo,” Platner said. “We chose a terrifying looking skull and crossbones off the wall because we were Marines and, you know, skulls and crossbones are pretty standard military thing.”