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Democrat Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner Outed By Own Comments As Anti-White Communist
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Ashley Brasfield
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October 16, 2025 5:31 PM ET
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Since-deleted posts by Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner have resurfaced and show him once calling himself a communist and insulting police and rural white Americans, according to a report.

Most of the posts were made about five years ago under the Reddit username “P-Hustle,” and they were deleted before his campaign launch in August, according to a CNN K-FILE report. The candidate reportedly made posts insulting law enforcement in response to reports of police activity and claimed rural white Americans were racist while tying it to President Donald Trump.

Platner distanced himself from the posts in a Tuesday interview with CNN, saying they emerged from a period when he was angry and disillusioned. “That was very much me fking around the internet,” Platner told CNN. “I don’t want people to see me for who I was in my worst Internet comment – or even frankly who I was in my best Internet comment … I don’t think any of that is indicative of who I am today, really.”






In one deleted thread discussing a black Army lieutenant who police reportedly pointed guns at and pepper-sprayed, a user commented, “Bastards. Cops are bastards.” Platner replied, “All of them, in fact.”

Platner often commented on police violence, allegedly calling it “a problem that extends deep into the profession as a whole” and dismissing claims of accidental shootings in cases like the killing of Daunte Wright. “Fk these cops,” he wrote.

Platner addressed the anti-cop posts. “I can honestly say that this is me just being an a**hole on the Internet,” he said. “I have an immense amount of friends who are police officers. They’re not all bastards because they’re literally buddies of mine.” (RELATED: Maine Mamdani: So-Called ‘Grassroots’ Oyster Farmer Has Deep Connections To Far-Left)

In a 2020 post that has since been deleted, Platner reportedly replied to a thread called “White people aren’t as racist or stupid as Trump thinks” by saying, “Living in white rural America, I’m afraid to tell you they actually are.”

The candidate told CNN he didn’t recall that particular discussion, though he suggested it was a reflection of a debate he had online at that time.

When someone posted the question “‘When you are older, you’ll be more conservative.’ — How many on this subreddit are older,” Platner wrote, “I got older and became a communist,” according to a screenshot. The comment was made on the far-left subreddit r/Antiwork in 2021, CNN reported.

Platner, a Maine oyster farmer who entered the race in August, has been presented as a “grassroots” challenger to Republican Senator Susan Collins, aiming to connect with the state’s Trump supporters through a campaign focused on improving conditions for Maine’s working-class residents. The candidate said he deleted the posts because he desired to rid himself of any association with a darker period of his life.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/16/maine-senate-graham-platner-communist-police-trump-white-voters-susan-collins/