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hone in on the fact that she is now a Republican and also, well, she'll explain to us why she thinks, because she's been very clear about this, I think, that the New York Times was dishonest in the way to approach her for the reporting and no surprise here is doing the work of the Democrat Party. That is what I would always expect from them. It is... It is interesting to see, I think, Clay, Democrats trying to maneuver around this and come up with explanations and come up with nullifications, if you will, of some of the nastier stuff. On MS now, which I still have to get used to this, because I really enjoyed MSNBC. was a great brand for conservatives to just mock and trash at every opportunity. And it took us a long time to get it to the point where it was a laugh line. So I feel like they've stripped that from us a little bit. I don't like this MS now. I liked MSNBC. I also liked that the lunatics, like, for example, Oberman was the biggest draw, and then it was Maddow at MSNBC. I liked that it was connected to NBC News. I like that everybody could kind of see, hold on a second. It's really all the same thing, isn't it? They're really just pushing the same agenda, maybe with slightly less crazy people, but the same kind of strategy and hope for the Democrat Party going on. But here is, Clay, this is cut 10. This is Chris Hayes, who is still over there at MS now, and he is trying to do the best he can, clean up on Isle Graham Platner. Play 10. If there was stuff that you're not proud of that you worked out with your wife, you don't want to talk about the details. When did it stop? It stopped when it was happening. I mean, like it was a, Amy and I, Amy and I, it happened soon after we got married. And we dealt with it very, very early in our relationship. And so that's when it stopped. So there's that. Clay. There is also something else to work in here. I don't know how much people care or don't care about the Nazi tattoo at this point. But I think it has become apparent to anybody who is being honest with themselves that Graham Platner's hole, oh, I didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo. A tattoo, we all understand, is a permanent thing, or at least until you're going to have a very painful removal process. You tend to think about what it is. And CNN had a report about how a woman is coming forward to say that he used to call it his, his quote, Tottenkopf, which meant that he knew exactly what this tattoo symbolized. Play 8. What we're learning tonight is that a woman who spoke to CNN anonymously last year is now going public to the New York Times and CNN and directly challenging Graham Platner's explanation about the tattoo. She says Graham Platner referred to the image as my Totenkov. That's a reference to the goal and crossbone emblem used by Nazi SS units years before the controversy became public. She was the same source who previously provided CNN with text messages showing that before Graham Platner said he learned the symbols Nazi associations, she was already describing the tattoo to

friends as a Nazi symbol and saying that she learned that from Graham Platner. Now, her account also lines up with reporting we uncovered last year from Graham Platner's deleted Reddit post. In those posts, they discussed the Todenkov and other Nazi link symbols. And he argued that some members of the military had adopted them as part of military culture rather than expressions of Nazi ideology. Now, this raises new questions about Graham Platner's longstanding claim that he only recently learned about the symbols Nazi associations last year. And most importantly, here, Aaron, is this campaign has really offered no explanation as to how his ex-girlfriend could have known about the tattoo before he did. These text messages were in August of last year, right when he announced his campaign, and Graham Platner said that he learned about it in October. Okay. Clay, Clay, this is our upcoming guest, to be clear, she was anonymous. She has come forward, but she is going to explain how this whole, I didn't know it was a, by the It's the most evil subunit of the Nazi party. Correct. It's worse, arguably, than even a swastika would be. Here is cut seven. This is last night, MS now, Chris Hayes. He hits her, and we're going to talk with Lindsay about this, hits Graham Platner with a pretty significant question. How is it that your girlfriend could have known. exactly what your tattoo was and been talking about it in text with her with her girlfriends and you didn't know what the tattoo on your chest which you had had for nearly 20 years represented cut seven The Times basically reported that they saw texts of hers, including a text in August, I believe August 3rd of last year. This would be before October of last year, in which she basically said that you had a, quote, Nazi tattoo, and she joked about how she's going to go volunteer for Susan Collins. How does she know it's a Nazi tattoo in August of last year, and you don't know it's a Nazi tattoo in August of last year? Well, she certainly didn't send that text to me. So whoever she sent it to and was talking to, that's, I can't say why, but I will say that I certainly didn't know. And the text messages she's sending to friends who may have recognized that, they didn't tell me that. I mean, he's such a bad liar. Think about how crazy this is. You have a tattoo for those of you out there listening to us right now. Are there any of you that have tattoos that you don't know what they represent? Any person listening to us right now. Has there ever been a time when your girlfriend... would be texting with her friends about what your tattoos represented and that you didn't know what your own tattoos represented. Look, we'll have her on. She says that he specifically said they chose this tattoo because they knew exactly what it was, and he was a Marine, I believe. He believed his group of Marines were the equivalent of SS guards. They were killers.

That's what he said. That's why he said they picked that particular one. These are the exterminators of Holocaust concentration camps. That was the tattoo that they wore. I think it's hard to believe that that would be on your chest for nearly 20 years and that you wouldn't know about it. And again, all of this just ties into dishonesty from him on epic proportions. Now, in general, Buck, you dated a lot more than I did because I got married younger. I do sometimes get a little bit nervous about the idea of person becomes famous. And we go back and we talk to every single person that's ever known them for their entire life. And we try to find someone who will say something negative. And that is the story here. So it is fair to say that if you are out there and you say to your point earlier Buck where you said, hey, you know what, you know, I'm skeptical that this will have any impact. I think one reason that that might be the case is because anybody who went through the whole Brett Kavanaugh situation when they just made up everything out of whole cloth about Brett Kavanaugh can be skeptical anytime someone becomes, quote unquote, famous or is in some sort of prominent role. And suddenly everybody comes out and says, hey, this guy did something bad to me. Now, I will say this was relatively recent in the grand scheme of things. She also says that he had what I think an AK that he kept in his house, his apartment. And again, I come back to the super weird. If anybody tries to rob me, I'm going to rape them. not to be gay, but just to establish dominance, which is acknowledged that he said by the campaign. That is super weird. This guy is a deranged loser, and the Democrats want him to win. I mean, and they don't care at all, really. That tells you something, I would think, right? That tells you something about where. the heart and soul, if that even exists, so the Democrat Party is these days. There is no one who is too scummy as a Democrat if they can win. They still fundamentally believe he can win. Eric Swalwell got kicked to the curb because they thought he couldn't win and they had a bunch of other Democrats ready to go and it didn't matter. So it wasn't a principle. This is very important. Swallow getting Swalweld, if you will. I think we could say that. That wasn't, oh, the Democrats have found their principles. It was, oh, man, this guy's a liability. Next, done. And they had a next. They had somebody up. We saw this clay, and of course I was on the losing side of this bet, which is still outrageous, because my overall analysis of it was apt.

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He likes the class. He's a classic rock guy. If you're a true classic rock guy, hair bands are kind of like apostates or something, you know? Also, how about how often does Mike get called up to the big leagues? It's like he got called on to come up with the bases loaded, and he's like, that's not really my time of the game. I would have just come, I would have just come up with an answer, right? Like, I would have just made something up. He's like, that's not my thing. Yeah, the bases are loaded. I can have the walk off home run. I can have the iconic moment. I let somebody else do it. That's not really my thing. I'm more of a sack fly guy. I can't swing for the fences. Yeah. Speaking of the... Where were you going to go before I hijacked this to talk hairband? Sorry, where were you going to go? No, no. I was just going to say, I do think... Let's come back. Let's talk a little bit about this because I do think culturally this is going to be seen as very significant. And social media is on fire about this. The Chicago Bears have officially announced that is the NFL franchise that has played in Soldier Field, I don't know, for 80 years is my rough guess, that they are leaving... Not only Soldier Field, not only Chicago. but the state of Illinois, and they are moving to Indiana. I think that's a wow moment for a lot of people associated with Chicago. Let me speak to the business owners and people who are in charge of business insurance in any capacity out there. Business insurance policies come with the help of a broker usually, and it's quick for them, a handshake, a commission check. They're done until next time. But then you may not hear from them again until it's just time for renewal. Your business doesn't run on the same schedule, nor do the gaps and the risk. That's why we're introducing SuperShore. If your company has more than 25 employees, whether you're the owner, CFO, or HR manager, it can be too complex to just buy a policy online. SuperShore is the super agency built for you, licensed in every state for your business insurance and employee benefits, all with year-round support. Go to supershore.com slash buck. Supershore.com slash buck. You'll have a team that's there for you year round, not just at renewal, and you'll really know what's in your policies, what's covered. Supershore.com slash buck paid for by Supershore Insurance Agency LLC, a licensed insurance agency. Welcome back in. Clay and Buck. We are rolling through the Friday edition of the program. And I wanted to mention this because I was doing a little bit of research during the break. And some people may say, well, What is the real impact here? I do believe that oftentimes sports teams come to embody in many ways city and state larger symbolic.

connections to the country. And one of the teams I would say that is most connected with any city and anywhere in the country is the Chicago Bears have been connected as the NFL team to the city of Chicago. I looked it up. They have played Buck for the last 105 years in downtown Chicago, basically. They played the last 55 years at Soldier Field. And in the 50 years before that, They played at Wrigley Field, of course, which is the iconic home of the Chicago Cubs. So 105 years, the Chicago Bears, have represented Chicago while playing inside of the city. They just announced that they are moving to Indiana. And not only are they then going to leave the city of Chicago, they're even leaving the state of Illinois. Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, J.J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. We're going to get some of your calls here in a moment because we've got some good calls. But this is two days ago, incompetent, awful Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson said, we're working on the nitty-gritty deals here. We've got the bears taken care of in Chicago, cut 27. And this is where you begin to work out the nitty-gritty in a negotiation. And there's still more work to be done there. But again, we are a lot further along than any other section in this date. So you're saying negotiations with the Bears right now, a term sheet on a Chicago proposal? That was always, that never went away, right? We were always working towards a term sheet. And again, if the guy can't get a deal done to keep the bears in Chicago, I just think it's emblematic and reflective of his inability to manage anything in the city of Chicago. You were talking earlier about the choices that voters make in these big cities. They went from Lori Lightfoot, who is a truly atrocious, awful mayor. And they went to Brandon Johnson Buck and got worse. So a lot of times we think there's no way they could make a worse decision than the one that they've already made. No, that does, of course, continue to happen. We got a bunch of calls. I want to start with our friend, light him up, Linda. And Linda, I'm not going to be saying I'm surprised about this. How old were you when you got your first tattoo? Fifteen on Long Island. 15 on Long Island. Did you have to use a fake ID or did they just go for it? I did. I did. I used my sister's fake ID, but you were able to, because it was paper, so I was able to take an eraser and change the date and then penciled it. Okay, what was the tattoo that you got at the age of 15 on Long Island? It was flowers and butterflies. And you know, they had this big wall that you could pick from. And I knew everything at 15, what every single thing was on that wall. So how Nipps wants to sit there and say he doesn't know what his tattoo is is totally crazy to me. Linda, by the way, you want to kill everybody. Light him up, Linda, for those of you don't know.

Yeah, yeah, bad guys. You want all bad guys dead. But back at 15, you were getting flowers and butterflies. Has the world turned darker for you? Or, like, have you added more tattoos since? Like, do you have a skull and crossbones now, too? Like, how would you assess? No, but I do have a, I do have a sword with roses wrapped and vines wrapped around it. Where? On my leg. Okay. So these are all, I was just making sure. You never know. Okay, so you added the sword to go along with the roses and the flowers. But have you ever met someone? Everyone I've ever met, and I've seen a tattoo and I've thought it was interesting, because sometimes I'll ask, what's the story behind that? Most everyone that I've ever met, in fact, everyone I've ever asked that story about has told me not only why they got the tattoo, but the full story behind it. It is an important part of their life, such that they want to have it on their body forever. Do you buy that this guy on his chest could get a tattoo, have it there for 18 years, and never know what it actually was? Yeah, that's BS. Oh, that's BS. Yeah. Yeah, that's because here's the thing that none of my tattoos are significant to anything. I just picked it off the wall. Yeah. But, you know, I knew what it was. Yeah, but I feel like even if you're going to get a Sanskrit tattoo, which people used to do back in the 90s along with their barbed wire tattoo around the bicep, right? You'd probably ask the tattoo guy, what does that Sanskrit tattoo mean, right? You'd probably ask. Oh, absolutely. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Well, thank you, Linda. Light them up, Linda. Light them up, Linda. We love you. Big hugs. Thank you for calling in. And, Clay, I will say, as soon as she joins us, I can sort of smell the Marlboro Reds in the air around me, you know, just right away. Nick in Maine. You are in Maine. We should mention that in, I don't do a very good Maine accent. This is the perfect city to do a Maine accent for you, Buck. Bar Harbor. They are doing the, it's a great, nice part of Maine, beautiful area. That is where he has a rally this afternoon. Graham Platner does. Nick, you're up in Maine. I don't know what part of Maine you're in. What do you think about the story here? He didn't know he had a Nazi tattoo. on the back side of the island of Bar Harbor, so I'm right next to where he's going to be tonight. And I went to grammar school with him, and he is a history buff to no end. He's actually smart. He's the smartest guy I've ever met.

Well, this is super interesting. So you knew him, you went to school together. He is a huge history buff, and Buck and I are huge history buffs. I think if we had a history-related tattoo and we claimed to you, we had no idea what it represented, that would be hard for a lot of you out there listening to believe. But you know, you're saying flat out, this guy knows way too much about history, military history in particular, to have done this and not know what it represented. This guy used to wear Civil War uniforms in fifth grade to school. Maybe I like this guy. Yeah, no. But no, I mean, he's the guy who would have known about the 20th main on Little Roundtop as a main resident, I mean, which is rare when you're a kid like that. Absolutely, yeah. And all the reason I'm calling is he's embarrassed us long enough. I've had enough. What's the last time you saw him or met him or had any interaction with him? Last time I saw him, I was in line for a 20 years ago and he just got back from his second tour of Iraq. And that was the last time I saw him. Okay. Well, thank you for calling in. What do you think the average main voter is thinking as these revelations have continued over the last several days? The average actual main voter won't back him at all. It's the psychos that have moved up here since COVID that are backing him. The New Yorkers in the Massachusetts and Vermont and Rhode Island.

COVID are backing him. Not true Maine is not backing him. It's here, you know, this is the thing, the Clay, by the way, the outflow from New York, COVID, and even before that, into New England, unfortunately made New England even bluer. Because if you're a New York Democrat, you know where you ended up going? You ended up going to Vermont. You end up going maybe to moving to somewhere in Maine or Massachusetts. Florida, Florida got all the right wingers. Yeah. If you left New York for, the data completely bears us out. If you were like, I've had enough, I want freedom, I want red state, I want sunshine, you move from New York or at the surrounding area to Florida. It plays out once again. Chuck and Staten Island, you got a great question, and I've wondered about this as well. Thank you, by the way, for the last two callers, great jobs. Chuck and Staten Island, you got a great question. Yeah, I'm just curious. Didn't anybody think to wonder about the other guys in his unit and what tattoos they got? Yes. You are asking a question that I have wondered about for some time. Is there going to be a story coming? where they find other members of Graham Platner's unit and the guys say, because they supposedly, according to Graham Platner, all got matching chest tattoos, I believe in Croatia, if that's the story. And he said, oh, we were all super drunk. We didn't know we were getting. It's not only that Graham Platner got one buck, it's that every member of his little unit did as well. So if you didn't do the research to know what you were getting, don't you think one of your boys as you all had chest tattoos would be like, man, we got really wasted and went and got Nazi tattoos. Like somebody would have looked it up. So let me tell you a little bit about this. The Tottenkopf is German for Death's Head. or skull, and refers to a, this is from the ADL, a skull and crossbones image. During the Nazi era, Hitler's Schuchstaffel, SS, SS were the super, super bad guys. I mean, a lot of bad guys, but SS were like the worst of the worst, adopted one particular Tottenkopf image as a symbol. It became the symbol of the SS Tottenkopfwer Banda, one of three original branches of the SS. along with the Al-Gamaina SS and the Wafin, that's the most well-known one, the Wafin SS, whose purpose was to guard the concentration camps. Many original members of this organization were later transferred into and became the core of the Waffin-Waffen-S-Division, the third SS Tottenkopf Panzer Division, which engaged in widespread war crimes during World War II. And then following the war, neo-Nazis and white supremacists resurrected the Tottenkopf as a hate symbol because of its importance to the SS. So can I just note here, Clay?

The Democrat media talks about, they'll talk about white supremacy all the time to attack Republicans, you know, in the context of like, if we don't have sufficient, uh, sufficient diversity in the astrophysics department of MIT, that's just white supremacy. Like, they'll say that's white supremacy. Have you said, have you seen anyone point out that this guy actually has a neo-Nazi tattoo? Meaning that it's more common now among neo-Nazis. than anything else. No, I mean, I didn't. Your point is very well taken. Thankfully, neither you nor I is very well immersed in Nazi arcana. And so I think the fact that this even, the easy way to think about it is this. What would the reaction be if a Republican running for office right now had a Nazi chest tattoo for 20 years? Claimed he didn't know it was a Nazi chest tattoo and was a leading candidate to potentially be elected to the Senate. It would be the number one story for months. Every single Republican on the planet would be regularly asked to weigh in on every single little detail associated with it. I just, this is a funny one here. James, I thought light him up Linda calling in and saying I got my first tattoo when I was 15 was going to be tough to beat. James immediately. James, how old were you when you got your first tattoo? I was 13 on Long Island and I only found out last week when my wife finally told me that the USA tattoo I have my arm doesn't stand for unbelievably sexy ass. It stands for United States of America. Hey, where'd you get your tattoo at 13? Were you a miniola, patchhog, South Shore? Where were you? I was actually in central ice flip. I paid $10 for it, and I didn't have any ID. The guy did it in the basement of his house, and it was all good. Hey, that's how they do it in Central Islip. Thank you for calling in, my friend. We appreciate the story. $10 in a basement. This is why I have teenage boys. I'm like, you guys are morons. Teenage boys are. That's really funny. Appreciate the call. And let me tell you right now, we're talking about our knowledge and our love for American history. That's a big part of what, thankfully, our friends are doing at Americans for prosperity. In particular, as we come up on America 250, what's the last time you read our Declaration of Independence? Extraordinary document that is absolutely amazing to go read. Because in just a few paragraphs, our founders declared a revolutionary truth. All men created equal. Our rights come from God, not government, and freedom is the birthright of every American. Those words change the world. Now as we approach America's 250th birthday, you can take one small step to keep those principles alive. Join our friends at American for Prosperity on the Declaration Project. Take the pledge to read the Declaration of Independence allowed on July 4th. Read it with friends and family at the barbecue. Share it with your kids before the fireworks. Freedom isn't self-sustaining. Each generation has to understand it.

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