In one of the latest scandals to hit Maine Democratic Socialist Senate candidate Graham Platner, it was discovered that he smeared a fellow military veteran by saying he didn’t ‘deserve to live’ following a skirmish with the Taliban.
FOX News reported:
A Purple Heart veteran who was mocked online by Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner issued a blistering response to a video of Platner declining to apologize or acknowledge regret over the comment.”I saw the video, and, honestly, I don’t want an apology. I don’t need an apology. I consider the source of where the comment came from, and I’m the type of person that — in order for me to worry about what you say — first I have to respect you,” U.S. Army veteran Teddy Daniels said in response to a video taken by Fox News Digital over the weekend in which Platner declined to apologize.”There’s zero to no respect for a self-proclaimed communist,” Daniels said. “You know, the ironic thing is, some guys run towards gunfire, and other guys run toward keyboards, and I think that’s a big difference.”In a now-deleted Reddit post from June 2019 made under the username “P-Hustle” — an account that Platner has acknowledged owning — he reacted to a viral helmet cam video showing Daniels being shot four times during a 2012 clash with Taliban fighters, saying that Daniels “didn’t deserve to live.”
Teddy Daniels responded by writing an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.
This weekend, Daniels also appeared on CNN and slammed Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders for backing Platner.
Transcript via Mediaite:
I kind of consider the source on that, first and foremost, and I’ll be honest with you, what really upset me about the comments is — you know, I can’t even say that I was upset. I’m upset about the comment that he made about Chris Kyle. You know Chris Kyle has kids. He’s not here to defend himself.I have kids and you know with people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders backing this man, I want them, I want Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to — my youngest is 8, he turns 9 in a couple days — to tell my kids that they’re supporting a man who said their father didn’t deserve to live. I mean, think about that. You know, that’s the issue there. It’s just sad that somebody like this is being considered for a position in leadership in the United States Senate.
Watch the clip:
He went on to slam Democrats generally for their treatment of veterans.
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