Former President Joe Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, is facing fierce pushback online after jumping into the growing controversy surrounding Maine Senate Democratic nominee Graham Platner’s Nazi-linked tattoo, attempting to defend and explain away the Democrat’s disputed ink."The fact that a Biden WH Chief of Staff Democrat is comfortable downplaying a Nazi tattoo from a different Democrat tells you everything you need to know about today's Democrats," posted Prager University contributor Shabbos Kestenbaum.Klain sparked a fight with the Republican Jewish Coalition Wednesday when he defended Platner on the group's Instagram post condemning the candidate and calling on Democrats to withdraw their support.Platner has denied the tattoo was intended as a Nazi symbol, even as multiple people familiar with the candidate have identified it as an SS skull-and-crossbones design, which he has since covered."This is just a partisan attack," Klain wrote.
"The tattoo was a skull and crossbones to remember his fallen comrades from his service in Afghanistan."GRAHAM PLATNER BLAMES NAZI TATTOO ON MILITARY ‘CULTURE,’ DRAWS BACKLASH FROM GOP VETERANSPresident Joe Biden walks with Chief of Staff Ron Klain along the Colonnade of the White House in 2021.(HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Klain served as Biden's chief of staff from 2021 to 2023, before becoming Airbnb’s chief legal officer.
He was appointed to serve on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by Biden in January 2025 before President Donald Trump removed him nearly four months later.The United States Holocaust Memorial Council is the presidentially appointed board that oversees the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum.The exchange ignited a firestorm on social media, where critics argued Klain's defense reflected a broader unwillingness among Democrats to distance themselves from Platner amid the growing controversy."Here's former Biden WH Chief of Staff, and @Airbnb Chief Legal Officer, Ron...