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Platner’s brutal attacks on Army soldiers as ‘fat, lazy’ revealed in resurfaced posts

Graham Platner, the Democrat's presumptive nominee for Senate in Maine, described the United States Army as "absolute trash" and "full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform" in posts on his now-deleted Reddit account."I spent another 4 in the Army after the Corps, and while I was very lucky to serve in some sh--t hot units with good dudes, as a whole the organization is absolute trash," Platner wrote in April 2019. "I am not one to totally bad mouth the Army. It does have some squared away fighting units and good guys, as well as some better doctrine here and there. But it is a...