Self-proclaimed Communist with a now ex-Nazi tattoo Graham Platner is doubling down on ‘Walzface’. In a political climate where Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to pitch hard luck stories, everyone in the party is pretending to be a kid from the sticks or the streets who spent his life just fighting to survive the mean streets of Marin County and the famines of Somalia.
One reason Trump is so popular is he never pretended to be the son of a mailman who was on the front lines in Iraq. The public knows all this stuff is fake.
In a chat with Biden’s former press secretary Jen Psaki, who now does her lying for MSNBC, the Maine Senate candidate bafflingly claimed that he was just a regular guy who has “never been close to money and power.”
As Freedom Center Investigates exclusively reported long before the rest of the media, none of that is true.
Platner is the son of Bronson Platner, a local lawyer who ran for public office and donated sizable amounts of money to Dems, and the grandson of Warren Platner, a world-famous modernist architect who worked on the Ford Foundation headquarters.
Here’s how the New York Times described Platner’s estate.
Years of living in “houses built by others for others” caused architect Warren Platner to envision every aspect of his ideal home and to spare no expense when the time finally came to build it.
“The concept is similar to a chateau in the Loire valley,” the architect says, “but on a smaller scale.”
No money or power there.
The product of a prep school and a boarding school, whose vanity business is subsidized by his mother, who owns multiple businesses, is certainly just a regular guy… who kept being quoted by the media.
Quotes by Graham Platner appear in media stories, not local ones, but in national papers like the Washington Post going back to 2009. One or two might be coincidence, but whenever the media needed to quote an Iraq War veteran, it turned to a seemingly obscure man from Maine.
In 2016, for example, the Washington Post looked to Platner to condemn Trump for not really caring about veterans. “Graham Platner, a Marine who fought in the battle of Ramadi, thinks that Trump is playing the part of ‘patriotic culture warrior’ and thinks that Trump’s ‘knee-jerk patriotism’ plays directly to his base.” That’s something Platner may know a lot about.
Past the gimme cap and the oysterman costume is the shiftless radical son of a wealthy family who joined the military for adventure, spent years at George Washington University on the taxpayer dime without emerging with any obvious employable profession (a Washington Post story from 2009 describes him taking an ‘art history’ class) and then had his mother, friends and family set him up with an existing oyster farm that he then used to conduct tours for tourists.
So working class.
