Bernie Sanders Won’t Stop Championing Oyster Farmer With Alleged Nazi Tattoo

Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is refusing to drop his adamant support for Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner despite revelations that the candidate’s chest tattoo appears to be connected to Nazi symbolism.

Platner has denied that the tattoo is related to Nazism in any way, though its skull and crossbones appears to resemble the German SS Totenkopf emblem. Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, became Platner’s most high-profile endorser just days after the oyster farmer announced his campaign to oust Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

“There’s a young man who served his country in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he went through some really difficult experiences seeing friends of his killed or whatever, and in spite of all of that he had the courage to run,” Sanders told reporters Tuesday. “I personally think he is an excellent candidate and will support him, and I look forward to him becoming the next senator from Maine.”

The lawmaker was visibly angry and lashed out at the “corrupt campaign finance system,” according to Punchbowl News.

“We don’t have enough candidates in this country that will take on the powers that be and fight for the working class,” Sanders said.

Sanders did not immediately respond to the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation