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Search results for "Graham Platner chose to put vile Nazi imagery on his own body and kept it there for years"

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Pine Tree Results PAC stated on April 26, 2026 in an ad:
“Graham Platner blames Maine’s women for getting raped because he says they get f----- up drunk"
By Amy Sherman• April 29, 2026
Allan Fung stated on August 18, 2014 in a news release:
"Nazi imagery [was used] by the Block for Governor campaign to describe supporters of Allan Fung for Governor."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• August 24, 2014
Facebook posts stated on September 01, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Facebook “is banning Trump from advertising for president.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 23, 2020
Wolf Blitzer stated on February 18, 2014 in comments on CNN:
The words "subhuman mongrel," which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama, were used by the Nazis to "justify the genocide of the Jewish community."
By Jon Greenberg• February 19, 2014
Instagram posts stated on June 14, 2020 in an image:
Nazi Germany’s Hermann Göring worked to "defund and eliminate the police departments so that they would not interfere with his Brown Shirts."
By Daniel Funke• June 18, 2020
Bob Graham stated on April 03, 2011 in a op-ed in the 'St. Petersburg Times':
"Since 1990, in inflation-adjusted dollars, per-student funding of the (Florida) state university system from general revenue has dropped by about $4,000."
By Aaron Sharockman• April 5, 2011
Instagram posts stated on December 03, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Henry Kissinger’s “deathbed confession” shows “Adolf Hitler was buried in Spain” and lived to age 68.
By Jeff Cercone• December 6, 2022
Instagram posts stated on November 07, 2024 in on social media:
“Something stinks” that Donald Trump won in several battleground states while Democrats won Senate or governor races in those states.
By Louis Jacobson• November 8, 2024
Bill Cassidy stated on September 20, 2017 in an interview on CNN:
Under the Graham-Cassidy health insurance bill, in "states like Maine, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states who have been passed by by Obamacare."
By Louis Jacobson• September 20, 2017
Viral image stated on February 05, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“NASA Curiosity finds Nazi helmet on Mars."
By Ciara O'Rourke• February 10, 2023
Jeb Bush stated on December 01, 2014 in a 'Wall Street Journal' CEO Council event:
"Too many" tattoos "on visible body parts" keep some applicants out of the military.
By Amy Sherman• December 3, 2014
Lena Taylor stated on February 15, 2011 in in a TV interview, as well as other venues:
Hitler "abolished unions and that’s what" Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is "doing today."
By Tom Kertscher• February 22, 2011
Instagram posts stated on April 06, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“34 dead after Lizzo attempted to crowd surf.”
By Loreben Tuquero• April 17, 2023
Dana Milbank stated on January 03, 2010 in a column in the Washington Post:
"Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope."
By Louis Jacobson• January 4, 2010
Alan Grayson stated on August 27, 2010 in an ad.:
"When career politician Daniel Webster became speaker of the House, he wasted $32,000 of our money on a spiral staircase for his office."
By Aaron Sharockman• August 31, 2010
X posts stated on January 22, 2025 in a post:
Elon Musk posted on X that the MAGA movement will “succeed in all the ways Nazi Germany failed to.”
By Sara Swann• January 23, 2025
Ken Paxton stated on January 07, 2021 in a tweet:
Says that “those who stormed the capitol yesterday were not Trump supporters. They have been confirmed to be Antifa.”
By Brandon Mulder• January 8, 2021
Facebook posts stated on January 30, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Image shows a patient experiencing claustrophobia and having a panic attack during a CT scan.
By Samantha Putterman• January 31, 2022
Kanye West stated on December 01, 2022 in an interview:
Hitler “didn’t kill 6 million Jews” and “the Holocaust is not what happened.”
By Gabrielle Settles• December 5, 2022
Russian Ministry of Defense stated on April 03, 2022 in a Telegram post:
A video taken from a car driving through Bucha, Ukraine, shows a corpse “moving his arm,” and then “in the rear view mirror the ‘corpse’ sits down.”
By Bill McCarthy• April 4, 2022

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By John Kruzel• August 18, 2017

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By Louis Jacobson• December 23, 2011

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