Deleted social media comments and an interview with an acquaintance undercut Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s claims this week that he only recently learned that a tattoo on his chest had Nazi ...

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, says he will remove a tattoo of an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol that he got on his chest nearly 20 years ago.

Mr Platner, who looks set to take the Senate seat despite a series of scandals, insisted he was not aware until recently that the style of his tattoo resembled the insignia of an elite division of the...