By Staff Reporter |
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) described masturbating inside portable toilets and other sexually deviant behaviors involving restrooms as typical military behaviors.
Gallego made the claim in defense of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Reddit posts made by Platner, a Marine veteran, described his habit of masturbating into portable toilets and appreciating the explicit graffiti to be found in restrooms.
Fox News first reported these online confessions issued by Platner on his now-deleted Reddit account, “P-Hustle.” These and other posts were retrieved from an archive of Platner’s Reddit account spanning over a decade maintained by the Maine Monitor.
“I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portash*tter,” wrote Platner in a 2017 post. “That blue water smell conditioned me.”
In another post from 2021, Platner wrote praise for graffiti depicting penises.
Platner posted on Reddit from the ages of 24 to 37.
Gallego described as “relatable” Platner’s confessed practice of public masturbation and public discussions indicating appreciation for explicit sexual graffiti.
“Did Fox News talk to any grunt or deployed Marine before posting?” said Gallego. “If the goal is to make him more relatable to veterans than mission accomplished.”
Other military veterans in the Senate begged to differ with Gallego’s take on Platner.
Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Navy SEAL and Republican, advised others to avoid using restrooms after Gallego.
“Mental note — don’t use the Senate men’s room after Ruben,” said Sheehy.
It was also on Reddit that Platner revealed he’d rubbed elbows with the late congressman Raúl Grijalva while working in Washington, D.C. sometime between 2011 and 2017.
“Raul used to drink in a bar I frequented/worked at right on the hill. Hell of a nice guy, we used to hang on the patio bullsh*tting about politics and whatnot while smoking a few cigarettes,” said Platner in a 2020 post. “I knew the guy six months, and one day someone walks past and greets him as ‘congressman.’ He’d never mentioned it. All around good people and a no sh*t public servant[.]”
Gallego has come to Platner’s defense before. Gallego endorsed Platner despite the latter wearing a Nazi military tattoo, pledging allegiance to socialism, identifying as Antifa, and disparaging white rural Americans. For close to 20 years, Platner had on his chest a tattoo of the Totenkopf, or “death’s head,” image used by Nazi troops.
It was that tattoo, critics say, that resulted in the Marine Corps refusing his reentry to active duty in 2009.
Just last month, Gallego was distancing himself from the sexual misconduct, assault, and rape allegations against former congressman and former California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell.
Gallego and Swalwell were best friends for a decade leading up to the allegations against the latter. When Swalwell ran for president in 2019, Gallego was his campaign chair.
Initially, Gallego had come to Swalwell’s defense.
“When you are in first place, is when they target you,” said Gallego. “Eric is a fighter and he will win the Governors race.”
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