Overview
- Platner on Thursday reposted Stew Peters’s X comment about bipartisan applause for potential war with Iran and added his own criticism of U.S. wars, then deleted it within hours.
- The Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center have described Peters as a prolific antisemite who has promoted Holocaust denial and conspiratorial content.
- A campaign spokesperson said the team intended to share a C‑SPAN video clip and did not realize it was posted by Peters, calling his account “despicable.”
- New reporting shows that in late January Platner appeared on YouTuber Nate Cornacchia’s show and called himself a longtime fan; Cornacchia has pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories linking Israel to high-profile assassinations and terror.
- The episode renewed attention to Platner’s previously revealed chest tattoo resembling a Nazi Totenkopf and past inflammatory posts, even as polling shows him leading the Democratic primary and ahead of Sen. Susan Collins in a hypothetical matchup.