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Combat veteran nearly killed by Taliban fires back at Platner’s deleted online attack: ‘You’re a coward’

Combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient Ted Daniels, who was nearly killed by the Taliban, ripped Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner over a resurfaced post in which Platner said Daniels should not have survived.Speaking to "The Bottom Line" on Thursday, Daniels called Platner a "coward" for hiding behind a keyboard."People like this don't say stuff like this to my face," he said. "It's online, and that right there tells me, Graham, you're a coward."In a now-deleted Reddit post from June 2019, Platner reacted to a viral helmet-cam video showing Daniels being shot four times during a 2012 c...