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Platner’s brutal attacks on Army soldiers as ‘fat, lazy’ revealed in resurfaced posts
Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, faced backlash over resurfaced Reddit posts where he derogatorily described U.S. Army soldiers as 'fat, lazy trash' and criticized wounded veteran Teddy Daniels. The posts, deleted from his account, now dominate his campaign against GOP incumbent Susan Collins, highlighting tensions between military branches and Platner's past Marxist leanings.
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