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Warren torched over ‘my kind of man’ praise for Platner after death-wish post for wounded veteran resurfaces


via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News <p>Sen. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/elizabeth-warren">Elizabeth Warren</a>’s vocal support for her controversial New England neighbor Graham Platner’s Democratic Senate campaign is raising eyebrows in light of his Nazi-linked tattoo and a slew of resurfaced remarks, including an admission of getting aroused by smelling biocide in Port-a-Johns.</p><p>Most recently, Platner was lambasted for <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/platners-deleted-reddit-sparks-outrage-appears-mock-wounded-soldier-didnt-deserve-live">appearing to wish the Taliban</a> had killed former Pennsylvania GOP lieutenant governor candidate Teddy Daniels after video of him under siege in Afghanistan surfaced:</p><p>"Dumb mother---er didn’t deserve to live," Platner said in a resurfaced social media post about the Purple Heart recipient. "Poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part…"</p><p>On his podcast, Washington-area radio host Larry O’Connor presented a mashup of Warren shouting, "<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warren-says-her-kind-man-left-wing-senate-hopeful-rocked-nazi-tattoo-reddit-controversies">my kind of man</a>," with narration of Platner’s uncovered foibles.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unearthed-posts-show-dem-senate-hopeful-praising-vulgar-graffiti-making-crude-porta-potty-admissions"><strong>UNEARTHED POSTS SHOW DEM SENATE HOPEFUL PRAISING VULGAR GRAFFITI, MAKING CRUDE PORTA-POTTY ADMISSION</strong></a></p><p>"Hey Elizabeth Warren, Graham Platner says that whenever he goes into a Port-a-John, he smells the blue water in there and he has to pleasure himself — how do you respond?"</p><p>"That’s my kind of man!" a clip of Warren intercedes.</p><p>"Hey Elizabeth Warren, Graham Platner just said that [‘American Sniper’] Chris Kyle … is actually a psychopathic murderer…"</p><p>"That’s my kind of man," the clip replayed.</p><p>"Yeah I could do this all day," O’Connor quipped. "And I have no doubt that is in fact her kind of man."</p><p>When <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://x.com/samanthabrook_/status/2057493141834375546">confronted by Fox News Digital</a> in Washington on Wednesday, Warren smiled at the camera, said nothing, and continued walking into an office building.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-silent-progressive-candidates-nazi-tattoo-after-knocking-hegseth-christian-symbol"><strong>DEMS SILENT ON PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE’S NAZI-STYLE TATTOO AFTER KNOCKING HEGSETH FOR CHRISTIAN SYMBOL</strong></a></p><p>Conservative commentator "Western Lensman" flagged a 33-page letter Warren had sent to Secretary of War <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/pete-hegseth">Pete Hegseth</a> when he was under nomination consideration in 2025.</p><p>Warren questioned Hegseth about a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warren-warned-hegseths-tattoo-made-him-potential-threat-now-she-backs-candidate-nazi-linked-ink">tattoo with a Christian phrase</a> tied to the Crusades — "Deus Vult" or "God Wills It" — and expressed concern about Hegseth reportedly being removed from former President Joe Biden’s inauguration because "fellow servicemembers feel concerned enough about to report as a potential insider threat."</p><p>Lensman contrasted that objection to Hegseth’s Christian tattoo with her silence on Platner’s own chest tattoo considered German Nazi imagery.</p><p>"It just tells you all the [the left’s complaints about right-wing] White supremacy blah-blah is all performative nonsense," he said.</p><p>Bernadette Breslin, a former top aide to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., offered a side-by-side of Warren crowing about Platner just weeks ago before appearing tight-lipped to Fox News Digital.</p><p>"Look how quickly she changed her tune once his baggage started becoming a political liability," Breslin <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://x.com/bernbreslin_/status/2057500993445601324">said on X</a>.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-dem-lawmakers-duck-questions-when-pressed-platner-reddit-scandal"><strong>TOP DEM LAWMAKERS DUCK QUESTIONS WHEN PRESSED ON PLATNER'S REDDIT SCANDAL</strong></a></p><p>The <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/senate/republicans">Republican Party</a>’s rapid-response account RNC Research latched onto Warren’s glowing words for Platner and is now using them for second-degree criticism.</p><p>When Iowa State Sen. Zach Wahls, D-Iowa City, invoked Warren at an event and said he is "very honored to have her endorsement" in his US Senate bid to fill retiring Sen. Joni Ernst’s, R-Iowa, seat, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2052396604909375667">the RNC posted</a> context about Warren also endorsing the controversial Platner.</p><p>"Warren has also endorsed candidates like Graham Platner — who got a Nazi tattoo, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/progressive-frontrunner-crucial-senate-race-faces-backlash-comments-praising-hamas-raid"><span suggestionid="58ebe752-8052-4816-a5bb-0195e742a43b" highlighted="false" suggestiontype="_METADATA" isinsertion="false" class="_suggestionUnderline_1elhj_1268 _agentSuggestion_1elhj_1284" data-suggestion-id="58ebe752-8052-4816-a5bb-0195e742a43b" data-is-insertion="false" data-suggestion-type="_METADATA" data-highlighted="false" contenteditable="false">praised Hamas' tactics</span></a>, and said women should ‘act like an adult’ to avoid rape," they said.</p><p>Meanwhile, Daniels – who also ran for sheriff of Dare County, North Carolina last year – told <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6396354658112">Fox News’ "The Bottom Line"</a> that Platner’s comments are run-of-the-mill for what he’s dealt with and that he largely dismissed them.</p><p>"I don’t get offended. I’ve been attacked by the left for years," Daniels said.</p><p>"This coming from a man whose party has no idea what a woman is, but yet he was online and saw a video of a man and had an emotional meltdown like a 13-year-old girl who just got dumped by her boyfriend – that’s not the type of leadership we need in our government," he added.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/maine-senate-candidate-cites-combat-trauma-when-confronted-terrible-posts-about-sexual-assault"><strong>MAINE SENATE CANDIDATE CITES COMBAT TRAUMA WHEN CONFRONTED ON 'TERRIBLE' POSTS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT</strong></a></p><p>Platner has <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/platner-called-ptsd-excuse-bull-2020-post-cites-struggle-explain-online-controversies">attributed his online behavior to PTSD</a> from Middle East military service and personal depression, saying in a statement that "I’m sorry for this. Just know that it’s not reflective at all of who I am."</p><p>"I don’t want you to judge me on the dumbest thing I ever wrote on the internet. I would prefer if people could judge me on the person I am today," the oyster farmer added.</p><p>Other <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-senators-deflect-questions-platners-scandal-plagued-campaign-not-following">Democrats besides Warren have also</a> become tight-lipped on Platner this week, as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York claimed he had not seen the Reddit posts when confronted by a Fox News Digital reporter outside the same Washington, D.C., office building Wednesday that Warren had entered shortly beforehand.</p><p>Platner’s sudden spike in controversy now endangers Democrats’ most-coveted Senate seat this cycle, as GOP Sen. Susan Collins seeks to continue her uniquely independent tenure as the last sitting federal Republican in office in all of New England.</p><p>Fox News Digital reached out to Warren for comment.</p>
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