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参议员苏珊·柯林斯就重新浮出水面的Reddit嘲讽美军士兵帖子严厉抨击普拉特纳，称这些言论“令人发指”，目前针对这些有争议的网络言论的审查力度不断加大。（图片来源：尼古拉斯·巴拉斯 为福克斯新闻数字频道拍摄）
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格雷厄姆·普拉特纳——民主党在缅因州参议院的推定候选人，在其现已删除的Reddit账号的帖子中，将美国陆军称为“十足的垃圾”，并称其“全是些肥胖、懒惰的垃圾，根本不想穿军装”。
“在海军陆战队服役结束后，我又在陆军待了四年，虽然我很幸运能在一些精锐部队服役，身边都是优秀的战友，但整体而言，这个组织就是十足的垃圾，”普拉特纳在2019年4月写道。“我不是那种会全盘诋毁陆军的人。它确实有一些训练有素的作战单位和优秀士兵，也有一些不错的教义。但它完全缺乏海军陆战队所拥有的武士精神和对领导力的执着，而且总体上招募的人员标准更低。”
这些重新浮出水面的帖子还包括2019年的一条针对受伤陆军老兵泰迪·丹尼尔斯的评论。丹尼尔斯曾被塔利班枪击，后来被授予紫心勋章。在该帖子中，普拉特纳批评了丹尼尔斯的战场战术，并写道这个“愚蠢的混蛋根本不配活着”。
普拉特纳针对丹尼尔斯的言论以及其他现已删除的Reddit帖子——包括他使用歧视性词汇、贬低美国白人农村居民以及自称马克思主义者的帖子——已成为缅因州参议院竞选的重大争议议题。普拉特纳正试图推翻共和党现任参议员苏珊·柯林斯的席位。
曾在中东战争服役的退伍军人发起针对苏珊·柯林斯参议员的竞选活动
2025年10月15日，缅因州参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州刘易斯顿的法裔中心市政厅发表讲话。（图片来源：利比·肯尼/《太阳日报》 via 美联社）
普拉特纳曾在海军陆战队和马里兰州陆军国民警卫队服役，多次在伊拉克和阿富汗执行战斗部署任务。美军各军种成员之间互相严厉批评的情况并不少见。
“陆军做事方式不同，整体而言，他们的方式要糟糕得多，”普拉特纳在2019年3月写道。“作为一个组织，它太糟糕了。全是些肥胖、懒惰的垃圾，根本不想穿军装。”
普拉特纳并非全程持负面态度，他称赞陆军拥有“一些非常出色的轻步兵、侦察和特种作战单位，还有一些很棒的军校”。
他还公开表示，武装部队内部开展批评是必要的。
“平民可以想有多蠢就有多蠢，但我们有责任直言不讳，”普拉特纳在2013年写道。“我希望平民认为我们的作战能力无人能及，但我也希望我们能在内部开展毫不留情的批评。”
2026年4月30日，周四，美国参议院民主党候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州刘易斯顿的新闻发布会上发表讲话。（图片来源：罗伯特·F·布卡蒂/美联社照片）
敦促暴力的已删除帖子困扰缅因州民主党参议院候选人
《华盛顿自由灯塔报》最先报道了普拉特纳针对陆军的贬损言论。
这些帖子是通过Reddit账号“P-Hustle”发布的，普拉特纳此前已承认该账号属于他。
“我对此感到抱歉。请明白，这完全不能反映我现在的为人，”普拉特纳在去年10月谈及重新浮出水面的Reddit帖子时表示。“我不希望你们仅凭我在网上写过的最蠢的东西来评判我。我更希望人们能根据今天的我来评判我。”
作为美国海军陆战队和陆军退伍军人兼牡蛎养殖户的格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，于今年8月宣布以民主党身份竞选美国参议院缅因州席位。（图片来源：格雷厄姆·普拉特纳竞选团队）
2019年，普拉特纳在看到一名美国士兵被塔利班枪击的视频后发表评论称，这个“愚蠢的混蛋根本不配活着”。普拉特纳的帖子批评了这名士兵——后来被授予紫心勋章——战术拙劣。
这位参议院候选人的言论遭到了其他一些退伍军人的批评。
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“我们不会拿牺牲的战友的死亡开玩笑，这不是我们会做的事，也不正常，”前海军海豹突击队队员、明尼苏达州共和党参议院候选人亚当·施瓦茨在谈及普拉特纳时表示。
左图：格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，右图：与参议员苏珊·柯林斯（R-缅因州）同框的照片。（图片来源：格雷姆·斯隆/盖蒂图片社；希瑟·迪尔/盖蒂图片社）
缅因州参议院候选人就涉及性侵犯的“恶劣”帖子对峙时称其源于战斗创伤
普拉特纳将自己的行为归咎于部署到中东后患上的心理创伤，以及在海军陆战队期间习惯了的“粗俗幽默”。
这位参议院候选人针对军方的争议言论并不局限于Reddit。
在2024年的一次播客采访中，普拉特纳暗示已故海军海豹突击队队员克里斯·凯尔为了夸大自己的杀敌数而杀害平民。
“[凯尔]关于自己射杀人数的说法，确实与我亲眼所见的行为相符，”普拉特纳说。“如果你的射击标准稍微低一点，比如不像更专业的部队那样讲究，那么达到这样的高杀敌数相对容易。”
他还在Reddit账号上指责海军海豹突击队整体上能力不足，但对陆军游骑兵队给予了好评。
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“格雷厄姆·普拉特纳对受伤服役人员的恶毒攻击以及对陆军的公然蔑视令人作呕，也让他丧失了参选资格，”全国共和党参议员委员会新闻秘书贝尔纳黛特·布雷斯林在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。“我们对他了解得越多，像伊丽莎白·沃伦这样的民主党盟友就越需要回避问题，解释他们当初为什么会支持他。”
周四福克斯新闻数字频道联系普拉特纳竞选团队置评时，未得到回应。
Platner’s brutal attacks on Army soldiers as ‘fat, lazy’ revealed in resurfaced posts
May 23, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
Posts made under the ‘P-Hustle’ account have become a major campaign issue in the Maine Senate race
Collins blasts Platner over Reddit posts mocking wounded U.S. soldier
Sen. Susan Collins blasted Platner over resurfaced Reddit posts mocking a U.S. soldier, calling the comments “just appalling” as scrutiny grows over the controversial online remarks. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)
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Graham Platner, the Democrat’s presumptive nominee for Senate in Maine, described the United States Army as “absolute trash” and “full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform” in posts on his now-deleted Reddit account.
“I spent another 4 in the Army after the Corps, and while I was very lucky to serve in some sh–t hot units with good dudes, as a whole the organization is absolute trash,” Platner wrote in April 2019. “I am not one to totally bad mouth the Army. It does have some squared away fighting units and good guys, as well as some better doctrine here and there. But it is absolutely lacking in the warrior ethos and leadership obsession that the Corps has, and generally attracts a lower standard of person.”
The resurfaced posts include a separate 2019 comment about wounded Army veteran Teddy Daniels, who was shot by the Taliban and later awarded the Purple Heart. In that post, Platner criticized Daniels’ battlefield tactics and wrote that the “dumb motherf—er didn’t deserve to live.”
Platner’s comments about Daniels and other now-deleted Reddit posts — including posts in which he used slurs, demeaned white rural Americans and identified as a Marxist — have become a major campaign issue in the Maine Senate race, where he seeks to unseat GOP incumbent Sen. Susan Collins.
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Senate candidate Graham Platner, D-Maine, speaks at a town hall at the Franco Center in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 15, 2025.(Libby Kenny/Sun Journal via AP)
Platner served in the Marine Corps and the Maryland Army National Guard, where he completed multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is not uncommon for members of one branch of the armed forces to be harshly critical of other branches.
“The Army does things differently, and as a whole, they do things much worse,” Platner wrote in March 2019. “As an organization it’s awful. Full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform.”
Platner wasn’t exclusively negative, as he praised the Army for having “some solid light infantry, reconnaissance, and SOF units that are s— hot, as well as access to some great schools.”
He was also open about the necessity of internal criticism within the armed forces.
“Civilians can be as dumb f–k ret—ed as they want, but WE have a duty to be brutally honest,” Platner wrote in 2013. “I want civilians to think our ability to fight is unmatched, but I also want us to be brutal in our internal criticism.”
Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at a news conference Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Lewiston, Maine.(Robert F. Bukaty/AP PHoto)
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The Washington Free Beacon first reported on Platner’s disparaging comments directed towards the Army.
The posts were made under the Reddit account “P-Hustle,” which Platner has previously acknowledged as his.
“I’m sorry for this. Just know that it’s not reflective at all of who I am,” Platner said of his resurfaced Reddit posts back in October. “I don’t want you to judge me on the dumbest thing I ever wrote on the internet. I would prefer if people could judge me on the person I am today.”
Graham Platner, a U.S. Marine and Army veteran and oyster farmer, launched a Democratic run for the U.S. Senate in Maine in August.(Graham Platner campaign)
In 2019, Platner reacted to a video of an American soldier being shot by the Taliban by stating that the “dumb motherf—er didn’t deserve to live.” Platner’s post criticized the soldier, who was later awarded the Purple Heart, for utilizing poor tactics.
The Senate hopeful’s commentary has attracted criticism from some other veterans.
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“We don’t make jokes about our brothers and sisters dying, that’s not something we do, that’s not normal,” Adam Schwarze, a former Navy SEAL and Marine veteran running for Senate as a Republican in Minnesota, said of Platner.
Graham Platner, left, pictured alongside Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, right.(Graeme Sloan/Getty Images; Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
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Platner attributes his behavior to psychological trauma he developed from being deployed to the Middle East, as well as the “crude humor” he had gotten used to while in the Marines.
The Senate hopeful’s controversial statements about the military haven’t been confined to Reddit.
During a 2024 podcast interview, Platner implied that deceased Navy SEAL Chris Kyle killed civilians to inflate his numbers.
“[Kyle’s] stories about how many people he was shooting certainly tracked with the behavior I witnessed,” Platner said. “It’s relatively easy to get high numbers like that if you’re a little less discriminating in your fire than, say, a more professional unit would be.”
He also accused Navy SEALs of being generally incompetent on his Reddit account, though he had kind words for the Army Rangers.
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“Graham Platner’s vicious attacks on wounded service members and open contempt for the Army are disgusting and disqualifying,” National Republican Senatorial Committee press secretary Bernadette Breslin told Fox News Digital. “The more we learn about him, the more his top Democrat allies like Elizabeth Warren are forced to dodge questions on why they ever supported him in the first place.”
The Platner campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Thursday.