Exclusive | Hero Purple Heart vet whom Graham Platner said didnt deserve to live slams Dems backing him: Say that to my face

WASHINGTON — The heroic Purple Heart-winning Army veteran, whom Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner sneered as not deserving to live in a screed on his burner Reddit account, tore into the Democrats for continuing to back the candidate.Pfc.Ted Daniels, who captured viral helmet footage of himself moving into open terrain to draw Taliban fire away from his squad in 2012, said Democrats backing Platner owe his children an apology.“I’m very thick-skinned, and he said it,” Daniels told The Post.

“I don’t want an apology, and any apology from him [Graham] at this point would definitely not be sincere.”“What I’d really like is for Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Hakeem Jeffries, and everybody else on the far left to tell my children to their face that they are endorsing and supporting a man who said that their father should have not lived.Cheering on the death of their father.”Daniels had gone viral in 2012 over heart-pounding footage of himself out in the open on a ridge in Afghanistan with bullets flying all around him, trying to create an opening for his seven fellow soldiers.At the time, he was a 37-year-old father of two children.Ultimately, he was hit four times, but all members of his squad survived the chilling firefight.

Later, he was awarded the Purple Heart for sustaining injuries.About seven years ago, Platner, a Marine veteran, sneered at Daniels from his “P-Hustle” Reddit account.“This video never gets old.

Dumb mother—er didn’t deserve to live.At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt,” Platner, then a 34-year-old, chided on his burner Reddit account.The Post has verified Platner’s remarks using Pull Push.

Platner has mass-deleted his Reddit account history.The Post reached out to Platner’s campaign for comment.Daniels, who ran for Congress and later for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor as a Republican years ago, tore into Pl...