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Ted Cruz: “Graham Platner had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, a Totenkampf.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 03:59

That's how he described his own political and economic philosophy. Graham Platner had, and you, you've heard this cuz at this point most people had, Graham Platner had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, a Totenkampf. What is a Totenkamp? It is a Nazi skull and crossbones that was the symbol of the SS that ran the concentration camps in, in Germany and throughout, throughout Europe in the World War II. (03:59–04:06)

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