As Democratic Senate Candidate Graham Platner (ME) suffers repeated scandals, the CNN News Central crew has been playing interference for his campaign, avoiding coverage of the most concerning details of the whole ordeal during their Monday show. From his sexual messages on an app referred to as a ‘Predator’s Paradise’, to his Nazi tattoo cover-up, nobody over at CNN News Central brought up any of the most important details regarding the scandals in its three-hour run time. Instead, they simply noted the scandals existed.
CNN’s most expansive coverage regarding Platner’s older scandal, his now-removed Nazi tattoo, amounted to “his other scandals.” Strange to see the media writing off controversial tattoos given their reaction to Pete Hegseth’s tattoo. This controversy was secondary, however, to the primary focus of their coverage: Platner’s sexcapades on a messaging site allegedly notorious for child predation and sexual abuse:
. steve malzberg
