Our friends at the New York Post uncovered another twist and turn late Thursday afternoon in Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s phony record and scandal-ridden life as another ex-girlfriend came forward to share not only did Platner cheat on his then-fiancé with her in 2021, but confirmed he was aware he had a Nazi tattoo and believed America is the “evil, bad guy overseas.”
Despite having shown mild interest in his sexting scandal and allegations leveled last week by Lyndsey Fifield and other ex-girlfriends in The New York Times, none of them mentioned it Thursday night and Friday morning during their flagship newscasts.
In contrast, the Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends spent nearly three and a half minutes covering it in their first hour. Co-host Ainsley Earhardt declared “another shoe drops for Graham Platner” ahead of co-host Lawrence Jones noting “this is another second person that we know that it’s gone on record that talked about this tattoo, and he knows about the tattoo.”
New from me: ABC, CBS, and NBC completely ignored the latest Graham Platner scandal as another ex-girlfriend -- @420mercymain69 -- spoke to the New York Post about her experience dating Platner (while he was engaged to someone else) https://t.co/jJONOj5XPK pic.twitter.com/PjQ3NwXqOZ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 12, 2026
Jones added this further underlined it’s “a lie” for Platner to assert he had no clue “what the tattoo represented” and, on his anti-American rhetoric should be grounds for investigation because he’s seeming to imply his unit “did war crimes.”
He also reminded Earhardt and co-host Brian Kilmede that “the senators that are supporting him asked him about a week ago, was there anything else? This is something else.”
Kilmeade was exasperated:
No kidding. This is the most predictable outcome of Platner’s candidacy in the history of politics. You really think that everything stopped at the water’s edge and The New York Times was the only revelation that was going to come forward? And I go back to this is the second time a second woman said he knew exactly what the tattoo meant.
However, Kilmeade conceded “the bottom line is…[e]very time a controversy pops up, [Mainers] give him more money” and he’s maintained the support of current senators.
“[N]o one evidently did a background check, had access to Google. Because all this stuff was out there with just a little bit due diligence,” he continued as a segue to the fact that a focus on scandals has diverted attention from the “more damaging” reality that he’s running as though AOC or Mamdani were “running to be the senator for Maine.”
Kilmeade and Jones wrapped by calling on other members of his unit to come forward to answer whether they share his anti-American views, also got Nazi tattoos, and if they believe they committed war crimes in service.
Post reporters Jacqueline Sweet and Ryan King stated in their lede, “Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner kept his hideous Nazi tattoo to remind himself “the US was the evil bad guy overseas,” according to an ex-girlfriend with whom he cheated on his fiancée in 2021.”
A “left-wing streamer” – who goes by the X handle @420mercymain69 – spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity along with posting screenshots speaking to “her mom in September 2025 in which she blasted him for his ‘Nazi tattoo,’ ‘small d—k’ and claims that he tarnished her reputation by using her to step out on his fiancée.”
Notably, the fiancé Platner was cheating on with this gamer – whom he met on Tinder – did not go onto marry him.
As we learned a few weeks ago, Platner became engaged to and actually married Amy Garnter, but even she wasn’t spared his infidelity with Platner sexting at least a half dozen women after saying, “I do” and maintaining a profile on a site known as a harbor for pedophiles
She also told the Post (click “expand”):
“As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that a Totenkopf?’ and he told me a whole, ‘he will hold this weight forever’ bravado sob story about how it was, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas,” she recounted.
(….)
She also included a screenshot of an image of Platner on a boat showing off oysters dated June 15, 2021, in Bar Harbor, Maine, not far from his hometown.
Platner told the woman someone in his military leadership suggested the whole crew get the skull and crossbones tattoo because he was a military history buff, the woman said.
She doubted his authenticity, telling the Post their messages seemed “tailored to me, knowing my politics.” The paper pointed out this woman even tweeted last year about Platner: “Last October, she posted that ‘Graham Platner’s a piece of s–t but not because he’s a communist.’”
As for why she chose to spoke now, the Post relayed that “she never wanted to come forward with her story but became concerned by what she saw as Platner’s lying to the people of Maine about his tattoo, and a pattern of behavior toward women she saw in recent news reports.”
Instead, the networks had other priorities. Friday’s CBS Mornings spent a whopping 12 minutes and 40 seconds on the unveiling of the music video for a new Backstreet Boys song in the new Paw Patrol movie, released by CBS’s parent company Paramount Skydance. As for ABC, Thursday’s World News Tonight gushed over Dolly Parton releasing her own brand of coffee.
Meanwhile at NBC, Friday’s Today joined ABC’s Good Morning America with segments on the Seattle Seahawks receiving their Super Bowl rings.
To see the relevant FNC transcript from June 12, click here.
