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Graham Platner: “I took my shirt off in front of my family, many of whom are…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Graham Platner responds to BOMBSHELL NYT report

Published | Video Starts at 03:35

And in the time that I had it, I got a security clearance with the State Department. I reenlisted in the United States army, where I was screened for gang and hate tattoos. And I took my shirt off in front of my family, many of whom are Jewish. We even released as a campaign a video, which you're putting up on the screen right now, of me dancing at my brother wedding to his wife, who is Jewish and her fully extended Jewish family. (03:35–03:39)

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