CNN’s Scott Jennings TORCHES Hypocrite Democrats — Exposes Radical Left’s Love Affair with a Candidate Sporting an ACTUAL Nazi Tattoo While Smearing Trump as “Hitler”

Scott Jennings absolutely eviscerated the Democrat Party on CNN, laying bare their shameless hypocrisy on everything from Nazi smears to their embrace of far-left radicals.

For years, Democrats and their MSM lapdogs have hurled “Nazi” accusations at President Trump, Elon Musk, and anyone who dares challenge their radical agenda. They’ve even fabricated lies about Pete Hegseth having Nazi tattoos.

Jennings took to X to drop this truth bomb:

“Dem after Dem called Trump, Elon, etc. Nazis. They accused Hegseth of Nazi tattoos (FALSE). And now? The most popular Dem Senate candidate in AMERICA has actual Nazi tattoos & the full backing of the radical Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. OWN IT.”

Platner, a 41-year-old Marine veteran turned radical leftist, has a chest tattoo resembling the infamous SS Totenkopf skull and crossbones, a symbol straight out of Hitler’s playbook.

He claims he got it on a drunken liberty stint in Croatia and had no idea it screamed “Nazi,” but CNN’s KFile dug up deleted Reddit posts from 2019 where Platner discussed the very same symbol and its Nazi ties.

CNN reported:

A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.

In one thread from 2019, Platner weighed in on a conversation about the “Totenkopf” — the skull-and-crossbones emblem worn by Nazi SS units that his own tattoo would later draw scrutiny for resembling — to note that many US service members had adopted similar imagery, such as the Punisher skull used by some Navy SEALs.

Using his longtime Reddit handle P-Hustle, the former Marine infantryman and future Democratic Senate hopeful also argued in a 2020 online discussion that “SS” lightning-bolt tattoos were a “culture” marker within Marine Scout Sniper units, not an expression of White supremacist ideology.

When commenters in the 2020 thread described the lightning bolts as a Nazi or racist symbol, Platner dismissed the criticism, writing that outsiders “have no idea what they’re talking about” and added, “I will be sure to inform the Black guys I know with bolts that they’re Nazis now.”

Instead of calling him out, the Democrats’ far-left base is so in love with this guy.

Platner has secured the endorsement of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and has received praise from several high-profile progressive Democrats in the Senate, including Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, and Sheldon Whitehouse.

During a CNN panel discussion, Jennings laid it all out, exposing the Democrats for who they really are: all talk, no substance, and total hypocrites.

Here’s the explosive exchange:

SCOTT JENNINGS:
I hate to break the news to you, but he’s winning the primary by 30 points. Getting a Nazi tattoo made him more popular — more popular among Democrats. You’ve got a guy running for attorney general in Virginia who wants to murder Republicans, and he raised $500,000 off of it.

You got Nazi tattoo guy in Maine. I sat out here for a year, two years listening to every Democrat at this table say, Donald Trump’s a Nazi, Elon Musk’s a Nazi, and your party is now in love with a guy with a Nazi tattoo who trained a left-wing paramilitary group and called himself an Antifa super soldier on the internet, and he’s going up every day. Good luck getting him out.

MARÍA HINOJOSA:
Your president —

SCOTT JENNINGS:
Good luck getting him out.

MARÍA HINOJOSA:
The person you nominated, 1,600 insurrectionists. I don’t think the Republican Party has —

SCOTT JENNINGS:
You’re not going to wash away now the Nazi tattoo with the old talking point. It’s not going to work.

MARÍA HINOJOSA:
And what did I just say? What did I just say? I said that he should resign.

SCOTT JENNINGS:
Good luck.

MARÍA HINOJOSA:
And I think that Democrats should also speak out —

ABBY PHILLIP, CNN Anchor:
Scott, are you making an argument that he should stay in? You seem to be very eager to defend his strength —

SCOTT JENNINGS:
I am but a humble political analyst. And I will just tell you that when you’re winning a race by 30 points, if a pundit on television tells you what you need to think about dropping out, you laugh in their face.

ABBY PHILLIP:
I don’t know.

MARÍA HINOJOSA:
This is a year out.

ABBY PHILLIP:
I feel like you ought to take the agreement when it’s happening. I mean, she’s saying pretty clearly —

SCOTT JENNINGS:
No. I want Democrats to be who they are. This is who they are. This is who they are.

MARÍA HINOJOSA:
Hold on. You’re saying that Democrats are Nazis? Is that what you’re saying?

SCOTT JENNINGS:
I’m saying it’s very on-brand right now. It’s very on-brand.

ABBY PHILLIP:
Hold on one second. Hold on. Scott, really, like are you suggesting — are you suggesting that a person who wears a Nazi tattoo because he was in the military or whatever is representative of the entire Democratic Party? Is that the —

SCOTT JENNINGS:
I’m only reading the polling, Abby. When all this story broke and he started talking about it, he literally got more popular. He’s beating the incumbent governor by 30 points.

ABBY PHILLIP:
You realize that he’s running in one state — in Maine — and you’re also saying that because of that, he’s representative of the Democratic Party? You said this is who they are. Who is “they”?

SCOTT JENNINGS:
Look at the polling. Look at the energy.

MARÍA HINOJOSA:
This is not about the poll.

SCOTT JENNINGS:
Bernie Sanders wants him. The beating heart of the Democratic Party, where their energy is, wants the Nazi tattoo guy. That’s what they want.

[…]

SCOTT JENNINGS: Listen, I understand you don’t want to have this guy, and I wouldn’t either. He is a totally unknown guy, comes out of nowhere. He’s got the full support of the left wing, progressive SANDERS wing of the Democratic Party. And he’s beating—

JEMELE HILL: Is who supports is BERNIE SANDERS?

SCOTT JENNINGS: Yes. Look at the polling. And here’s the most important thing. He’s beating the incumbent governor of the state by 30 points. This isn’t happening in a vacuum. People are comparing an establishment figure like JANET MILLS and this insurgent left-wing radical like JARED PLATNER, and they’re like, you know what, we’ll take the Nazi tattoos. It’s fine.

And I just—I think you—look, it could be early but people are following this race and the polling is pretty clear, it’s not that close.

ABBY PHILLIP: Look, I think this is not obviously the first time that we’ve had an unsavory candidate endorsed by the establishment despite his passwords. That happened in an—

SCOTT JENNINGS: He’s not endorsed by the establishment. She is.

ABBY PHILLIP: Excuse me, but I’m saying like you’re suggesting that this is representative of the Democratic Party. I’m just saying, in the past, you know, there was a Senate race in Alabama in which DONALD TRUMP endorsed the candidate who had said all kinds of inflammatory things, all kinds of skeletons in his closet, and they ended up losing that Senate race to a Democrat. So, it’s happened before. This wouldn’t be the first time.

And, by the way, I mean, I do think both of you seem reluctant to take yes for an answer at this table, at least. You have two Democrats basically saying, this guy should go, and you guys are very insistent.

SCOTT JENNINGS: I’m glad they are.

ABBY PHILLIP: But he’s representative of the Democratic Party when they’re making it clear that he’s not.

SCOTT JENNINGS: I just don’t think this guy—look, he doesn’t answer to you. I mean, I wish he did and I wish you were in charge. He answers to the energy base in your party. And right now, the energy is behind these left-wing progressive kinds of candidates. This is who they want.

WATCH:

Dem after Dem called Trump, Elon, etc. Nazis. They accused Hegseth of Nazi tattoos (FALSE). And now? The most popular Dem Senate candidate in AMERICA has actual Nazi tattoos & the full backing of the radical Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. OWN IT. pic.twitter.com/WzgknJR5UW

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 25, 2025

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