ME-SEN: Sanders weighs in on Platner: 'I'm sure he's not a saint'

[RandySF]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) addressed new criticism against the candidate he endorsed in Maine’s Senate race.

Democratic candidate Graham Platner, who was already under fire for controversial social media posts and a chest tattoo some say resembles Nazi insignia, is now facing reports that he sent sexual messages to women who were not his wife.

“I’m sure he’s not a saint,” Sanders told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday evening.

The Vermont senator, who caucuses with the Democrats, has endorsed the military veteran’s bid to oust incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) and defended him from criticism. Platner is the leading Democrat in the race, after Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) dropped out of the contest.




https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5908426-sanders-supports-platner-maine/

[aeromanKC]

1. One thing he's not is a pdfile felon!!

Or is that 2?

[Miami Blue]

2. I have been boycotting

Any show on MS. NOW that brings up Graham
Plater’s so-called scandals. Enough is enough
Please leave this man alone. ✋🏻

[EdmondDantes_]

4. That's not going to happen, nor should it

Our media should be free to investigate and not just the ones we don't like.

[Autumn]

3. He's not an ignorant asshole pedophile and sex trafficker.

I like him.

[Nanjeanne]

5. Here's what I do know...

Platner has not done:

Committed a felony.

Assaulted anyone..

Raped someone.

Trafficked a human being.

Trafficked drugs.

Fucked a child.

Appeared on the Epstein client list.

Accepted gold bars from a foreign government.

Driven a car off a bridge and left someone to drown.

Built a career helping corporations figure out how to fire people more efficiently.

Maintained a relationship with a suspected foreign intelligence operative while sitting on an intelligence committee.

Siphoned public money into offshore accounts.

Lobbied for a foreign government while holding elected office.

Voted to fund a genocide and called it foreign policy.

Taken unlimited donor money from the same class of people he claims to oppose.

Voted to cut Social Security while accepting checks from private equity.

Voted to deregulate the financial industry and then accepted speaking fees from the financial industry.

Voted for the Iraq War and then pivoted to calling himself an antiwar candidate.

Used their office to enrich their family members.

Been credibly accused of insider trading while serving on a committee that oversees the industry they traded in.

And more…

I don’t believe he would have voted for Kavanaugh for Supreme Court, voted to pass Big Piece of Shit Bill, or voted for Save act.