Video footage shows Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner refusing to offer an apology to a Purple Heart recipient whom he denigrated online.
A Fox News reporter confronted Platner outside a market near his home recently and asked him if he regretted the post about the veteran who was identified as Pfc. Ted Daniels, the outlet reported Sunday.
Daniels was shot four times during a firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2012.
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The Fox reporter also asked the Democrat what he would say to voters who found his comments upsetting.
“I did four tours in the infantry, any attempt to say that I disrespect veterans is slanderous and offensive,” Platner told the reporter, who then asked if he thought he owed him an apology.
“Do you know how many of my friends have Purple Hearts, do you know how many of my friends got wounded? Yeah, a lot of
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