Will Graham Platner’s ‘Jewish conspiracy’ theories – Latest News
Whenever he will get in hassle — which is fairly typically — Graham Platner has a prepared response: It’s the Jews!
OK, he largely simply says “AIPAC,” and waves at Benjamin Netanyahu in the end calling the photographs, however he’s nonetheless making it sound like an worldwide Jewish conspiracy.
The Democratic candidate for a Maine US Senate seat has been hit by studies he has a historical past of abusing girls, revelations that he long (and till final month) maintained an energetic profile on the “Kik” predator app, plus his own admissions to sexting a number of girls since his 2023 wedding ceremony.
All of it after he inked over his decades-old Totenkopf tattoo.
Sen. John Fetterman final week slammed his fellow Democrats for defending this man, itemizing off all of the ugliness, together with the Nazi tat; Platner responded: “You’ve become a stooge for AIPAC.”
Of course, that’s additionally what he says about his GOP opponent, Sen. Susan Collins, although he has to inform large whoppers about how a lot AIPAC money she’s acquired to justify it.
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Nationally, the Democrats have gone blind, deaf and dumb to the type of factor they used to call “dog whistles,” however which on this case are blaring sirens and lights flashing “JEWS JEWS JEWS.”
Blind or complicit: Platner’s key visitor at his rally final Saturday was Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), one of the richest members of Congress, who got here to Bar Harbor to defend Graham and rail concerning the fabled “Epstein Class.”
The Epstein Class, a group initially named — however by no means outlined — by Khanna, refers to a shadowy cabal of pedophiles who evidently run the nation for nefarious functions.
The time period will not be explicitly antisemitic; you’ll be able to contemplate it simply a coincidence that all of it performs off Jeffrey Epstein’s evil . . . however contemplate how Khanna praised Platner for “telling the truth about the billionaire class, about the Epstein class, about AIPAC, about foreign wars.”
Vile as Jeffrey Epstein was, he and his circle had nothing to do with selling “foreign wars,” nor had been any of them distinguished AIPAC sponsors.
So what are Khanna and Platner — who additionally rants concerning the Epstein Class — speaking about?
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When they (together with their Republican ally, Thomas Massie, who simply bought rejected by his voters) keep dropping blatant hints about Jews, malicious elites and billionaires that sound like the type of factor Henry Ford revealed within the Nineteen Twenties within the Dearborn Independent, it sure feels like a concerted effort to revive the traditional mix of Jew-hate.
Few Democrats — Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) excepted — have been prepared to push in opposition to this rising tide of hate within their celebration.
If Dems don’t begin combating the virus quickly, it’ll take a full-on civil battle to burn out the an infection.
