May 20th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. I’ll tell you what, this guy Plattner in Maine, he is a real sick S.O.B.. And I don’t see a lot of Democrats coming out against him. I mean, sick in every respect. Our our friends at the Washington Free Beacon. They’ve gathered additional information about him. Graham Platinum smeared the late American sniper Chris Kyle. Remember him in his great book and his wife. In a 2024 podcast interview suggesting that Kyle shot innocent civilians in Iraq to inflate his numbers. I don’t think we have that audio, do we, Rich? Let’s go ahead and play that. I didn’t know who these guys were. I left that deployment and continued on with my life, did a few more deployments, both in the Marine Corps and the Army. It wasn’t until somebody told me to read Chris Kyle’s book his stories about how many people he was shooting certainly tracked with the behavior we witnessed and then people I knew witnessed on the gut center, which is it’s relatively easy to get high numbers like that If you are if you’re a little less discriminating, you’re fire than, say, a more professional unit would be. So I that’s when I kind of learns about task unit Bruiser about Chris Kyle. And then it wasn’t till many years later that someone recommended Mike Drucker’s podcast or book to me. And I put that together and was like, You’ve got to be kidding me. I almost felt like there was like a like a weird practical joke being played on me by the war that like, all these, all these years later, I’m like, having to like, people are kind of like, Oh, that’s enough. You know, this guy, when you listen to him, when you listen to Joe Kent, something’s not right now. I’m not comparing them point for point, but something’s not right with Joe Kent. Something’s not right with this guy. This guy’s a real sleazeball. Basically saying that the late hero, Chris Kyle. He’s suggesting that he shot innocent civilians to inflate his kill numbers. And as the Washington Free Beacon points out, he also bristled at the fact that Kyle and members of his platoon were described as heroes, calling it a weird, practical joke. So he’s trashing a real hero who’s not alive anymore. Chris Kyle. You may recall him in his book again and his wife. And he does it, of course, after he’s passed away. It’s just grotesque. Now, you don’t hear Democrats withdrawing from supporting him because it’s power at any price. Again, to understand the Democrat Party, you just have to understand that. But there’s more. More in addition to his SS effectively SS tattoo on his chest that he had throughout his adulthood and still has. Now he’s a proud communist. Platten is delighted Reddit sparks outrage again as he appears to mock Wounded soldier. Deserve to live. Didn’t deserve to live. Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platinum’s deleted Reddit account has continued to cause headaches for his campaign in a recently resurfaced post appearing to mock a U.S. soldier almost killed in combat is stirring up more controversy. So you hear what he said about the sniper now? This video never gets all the credit account PR hustle, which Plattner has acknowledged he owned. Posted in June 2019. So he’s a full grown adult when he’s doing all of this. In reference to a viral video from the Helmet Khan, a PFC Ted Daniels taken during a clash with Taliban fighters in 2012 that ended in Daniels being shot four times. He earned a Purple Heart for his injuries. Dumb f mf didn’t deserve to live, says Plattner. Or at least his stupidity and fat a wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part is the only reason this mouth breather made it home. He managed to make every possible blank decision possible when it comes to small unit combat. Now, why is he doing this? Okay. That’s not that long ago. Six, seven years ago. The other one was one and a half years ago. The post was deleted but can be found at Main Monitor’s database of Shatner’s deleted Reddit history. Daniel said in later interviews that he purposely moved into the open to draw fire away from other men in his unit. While he expressed embarrassment, said tactically it was not a sound thing to do. Ultimately, I put my blank on the line for other guys. Shouldn’t have to defend himself. Partner, U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served for combat duties in Iraq and Afghanistan, has garnered criticism over the Dear Leader posts from a variety of sources, of course. We don’t make jokes about brothers and sisters dying. That’s something we don’t do. That’s not normal, said Adam Schwarcz, a former Navy SEAL and Marine veteran running for U.S. Senate as a Republican in Minnesota. He said that about Plattner mocking a fellow soldier on social media in an open forum. Schwartz acknowledged that Marines can sometimes have a dark sense of humor and give each other a hard time about tactics when speaking privately, but said that Platinum’s post was something different. We don’t post about our brothers getting wounded in action. And he also took issue with partners account related to law enforcement, including all police are bastards, he said. He’s attacked all cops. He attacks his fellow Marines and military personnel. There’s other stuff that’s very grotesque that he’s written about, that he’s done. I mean, really grotesque. Schwartz said he believes Plattner has mental issues. I think it’s very dangerous to say, hey, this is how veterans think and type of goods. That’s just not true. Schwartz said, I serve 21 years, nine deployments. I don’t know. One combat veteran who makes comments like cops are bastards. I think he should get some help. I feel bad for him. He deserves help from his time downrange, from his PTSD and his mental health issues. But he certainly shouldn’t be running for the United States Senate. No, he shouldn’t be. Now, Platt is a first time candidate. Of course. He’s backed by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. You should read the comments in context. It’s very clear. I’m joking, he said. No, it’s not clear at all. Because you weren’t joking, you jerk. Other post Platini has been questioned about, including in a recent interview with the New York Times in 2013, which he later deleted, that people concerned about rape should not get so effed up. They wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to. Mm hmm. This guy sounds like little Adolf. For Wentz, partners also faced scrutiny from our recent reader posts, including one from five years ago. He described himself as a communist and a socialist planner’s post have contained alleged homophobic slurs and praise for military tactics used by Hamas. The guy should not be anywhere near the Capitol building, let alone the Senate. And if he’s armed, they ought to be figuring out how to deal with that too. This guy’s a nut. And yet they want him in the Senate. They got to have the power. They need the seat. They got to get rid of Susan Collins. You know what I’m going to do right now, Mr. Producer? This is going to shock everybody. Might even shock Susan Collins. This guy was a Nazi. Now he’s a communist. Trashing our troops, trashing our cops. If I lived in Maine, I would vote for Susan Collins. How do you like that, Rich? Would you too? Yeah. And so I’m going to endorse Susan Collins against Plattner. That doesn’t mean she stands for everything I stand for. Obviously not. And I’ve been here behind this microphone almost a quarter century, and I’ve never endorsed her. So there he goes. Ah. No, let me tell you something. This guy has to be stopped. Stopped. There. There’s a point at which I got to use common sense. Can you imagine this guy in the Senate? Can you imagine his votes? A guy that was a Nazi, now is a communist trashing our troops. I mean, men under fire, mocking them, talking about stuff, sitting in public bathrooms. Trashing the cops. No wonder Bernie Sanders loves him. No wonder Elizabeth Warren loves him. So I’ll throw a curveball to them. Nobody expected me to do what I just did, but I did it. And I will defend it. And I will defend it. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
You know, two Democrat congressmen who are Jewish. Moskowitz from Florida and Gottheimer, Right. From Cass Heimer. I’m not trying to play game of just can’t remember. From New Jersey, they put out a statement today that was very good. This woman running in the 31st 35th Congressional District in Texas in the Democrat primary, talked about putting Zionists that has Jews in concentration camps and worse. They said if she becomes a member, that every day they will. There will be filing an expulsion petition, and I’m very pleased they did that. But I want to say something about. Some of our Jewish friends who are Democrats, particularly elected Democrats, particularly these two guys, because they seem to have some level of common sense, you know, unlike Slotnick from Michigan and that jerk from Georgia, the senator there, they’re all in their hardcore left. Slotkin pretends I was CIA. She was an interpreter. I was CIA. Anyway. Your party is a huge problem. It’s bigger than this one primary candidate. It’s much bigger. And when you when you play the game of, well, the Republicans do it, too. You’re making excuses. How many days, America? How many hours have I been behind this microphone dealing with the Jew haters, the anti-Semites, the bigots generally, who used to be in conservative media, who are podcasters, who used to be Republicans. Now they’re not Republicans. Now God knows what they’re. In other words, we try to police, if you will, privately a government. Who it is that should be in our party and who shouldn’t. This idea that we’ll accept anybody is ridiculous. We’re not going to accept Nazis. And communists. We’re not going to accept fascists. That’s not why we’re Republicans. That’s not what we believe in. That’s not why we’re a constitutional conservative. So of course, we’re going to battle them. And they don’t have a place in the Republican Party. They’re not in the House of Representatives. They’re not in the Senate as Republicans. The Democrats do. They’ve Taleb and Omar, They Bernie Sanders, they have AOC. They have others on the squad. The squad has been. Quite substantially extended expanded if candidates and Michigan and Maine one that just one in New Jersey, others that are running, you have Democrats who are mayors. Paterson, New Jersey. Dearborn, New Jersey. You can go on and on and on. Dearborn, Michigan, rather. You can go on and on and on. They are welcome within the Democrat Party. They are not condemned. You’ve got this guy Piker, who’s a real sleaze ball, and then you have Democrats running to be interviewed by a running with him as he endorses them for their candidate. We don’t do that. You have a. We push them out. You have a marjorie trader Gangrene. She left because she had to leave. We are much more. Aware of and active in confronting this which I call woke Reich See? H because they’re not of the so-called. Right, the conservative right. They’re more Reich. They’re more neofascist, if you will. And we challenge them and we fight them. And our president does, too. He’s banished them. He’s banished them by name. You don’t see that with a Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries. Sure. They’ll talk about this one running in the 35th District of Texas. That’s a low hanging fruit cake right there. But Schumer embraces partner Schumer once. The vile Hamas supporting Islamist who is running the Democrat primary should he get the nomination. He wants him in the Senate. Hakeem Jeffries never says anything about the bigots in his party, as a matter of fact. In many ways, he’s a bigot. So I would say to. I’ll call him Josh. And Moskowitz. You need to leave your party. If you really want to show an objection with what’s taking place. Jews who are elected Democrats need to leave that party. I have no respect for Josh SHAPIRO. None. Who plays footsie with the worst Islamists in Philadelphia. And then he plays the game of while I like it or I just cannot stand Netanyahu. We all know that that tap dance. We all know that tap dance. These people aren’t just about hating Netanyahu. One day Netanyahu won’t be there, but these people will still be chasing Jews and attacking Jews and the Mirror and America still be burning the American flag. I think they’re waiting for Netanyahu. Think Iran has been waiting on Netanyahu. They’ve attacked us for 47 years without having anything to do with Israel. So I’m just pointing this out. That for Josh and for Moskowitz. I salute you for what you’ve put out. Now you’ve got to really take a principled stance here because your party has left you. Your party has left you. Reagan left the Democrat Party. He said, It’s left me. Dershowitz has now left. The Democrat Party says it’s left me. If you’re really going to show some muscle and you both come from districts where you can win Republican seats, Moskowitz may have been gerrymandered out, but Josh as a as sort of a marginal district. The fact of the matter is, unless you leave the Democrat Party, which is the party of the Islamists, the Marxists and, yes, the neo-Nazis, now you’re stuck.

Segment 3
We’re here with our good friend John Catsimatidis or Katz, as we like to call you John, and John owns this radio station WABC, where I got my start CEO of Red Apple Group, but he also owns a number of grocery stores and he’s well known throughout New York City and he’s well well-liked throughout New York City. You’ve seen him on Fox, and I wanted to have you on, John, because it’s not so easy to run a grocery store, is it? There’s a lot involved in it. And the idea that the city government’s going to run government run grocery stores, would you lay this out for us, please? Well, you know, I’ve been running grocery stores the last, I guess, 54 years, and it’s not so easy. I remember you blink your eyes and I remember how we used to work 80, 90 hours a week and we used to go to Hunts Point Market to buy the produce, to buy specials for the for the for customers. And it is. And then what happens and you know what’s happening with Zohar and Madani you know we work the people in the supermarkets, in the bodegas, in the in the in the poorer neighborhoods. They work 70, 80 hours a week. And what Tommy with the mayor wants to do is he wants to give away some products. And the supermarkets always gave away products. You know, they used to I remember those days there used to be the milk wars, They used to be the the end wars. And the mayor has said that he wants to have low cost bread, low cost milk, low cost, whatever it is, but he doesn’t realize it that when the bodegas and the supermarkets go in the surrounding area, when they lose the sales and they lose the money, it’s the it’s the people themselves that lose the money. When the politicians when the city owns the stores, you know, who loses the money? The taxpayers. It’s not it’s they the politicians lose zero zero. They they they give away products. They give away eggs, they give away milk, They give away bread. But hey, so I you know, I don’t think it’s going to have a big difference in the overall community. But but, you know, it’s the people that work in that community and provide food in that community that are going to be hurt. And it’s the it’s the poor people that work 80 hours a week are not going to be making a living. And as the politicians own it. Guess what? It doesn’t affect them. It doesn’t affect them. And, you know, they only going to have five stops in those 12. I met with the mayor. I’ve talked to him. There’s going to be one story in every borough. And. All right, hold on. Hold on. You want one store in every borough? Why is he been doing this? It’s ridiculous. I think he wants you boys to play the violin for the people he promised it to. There’s another expression in the Greek community. Much get attached to that. Make sure you have 14 eyes. Well, what happens is people go in there and steal the product. You’re not going to arrest them, right? So why should they pay for it? Why should they pay for it? No. And it’s one big mess, a boo boo. We love New York and we want New York to survive. But what I’ve said to this morning, I was on Maria BARTIROMO yesterday. Right. And one which you made. And what I said this morning is that, you know, who’s going to suffer if people if the 2% that pay 48% of taxes in the city, if the 2% decide to move. Guess who’s going to suffer because they 2%. If you if you say I’m going to move to Florida for 186 days a year, I spend $1,000 a day between breakfast, dinner, taxis, Ubers, etc., etc.. Who’s going to get hurt? It’s the middle class. The people, the taxi drivers, the the taxi cab drivers, the Uber drivers, the busboys. My father was a busboy. The waiters. They’re going to suffer. They’re the ones that in a shelter. And, you know, if the city of New York, if the rating agencies, Moody’s, S&P, if they downgrade the bonds, he knows their cell phone employees. New York, New York state has 200,000 employees. New York City has 300,000 employees. Just like there won’t be any money to pay them. Mm hmm. So it’s not as easy as everybody makes it out to be some guy. All right. So we have to discuss how does a guy who’s 35 years old that’s never done anything. I mean, your business is complex enough now. There’s zillions of different types of businesses. He acts like he knows just from an ideological perspective how to how to run business and capitalism. Tell me by a little bit about your background. How did you become what you became? Well, you know, my family, my grandparents came to America in 1913. Both my my my mother’s grandfather, a father and my my father’s father. And then my father’s two brothers came in the 1930s and my father came in 1949. So, you know, all the immigrants, they came to America. They were ready to to work 70, 80 hours a week, and they worked their tail off. And what I say is, you know, you know why it is no time is left more. Why? Because the fathers worked 80 hours a week, sent their parents to the they sent their sons and daughters to become lawyers and accountants, just like the Jews, just like the Jewish community. Right. They worked 80 hours a week and they sent their kids to go to, you know, became lawyers and accountants and investment bankers. And that’s why there’s nobody left to run to the left to run the kosher deli. There’s nobody left to run me. The Greek diners, you know, they used to be open 24 hours a day. They were great, great. But, you know, as the world scurries and it’s tiny, you know, what happens is what people have to realize is that the Democratic Socialists has created actors. Don’t forget who Zora’s mother is, is big movie producer. He knows how to smile. He knows how to induce the guy to say hello to people. Omar, the congresswoman from Minnesota. And don’t forget, she was reading, you know, education. They are they are trained actors. And the same thing with AOC. And what happens is they are paid, they are trained and they they perform a task and the money comes in. Don’t forget, they go out and take it at 7:00 in the morning. Where do those signs come from? So we pay for them. And I believe it’s not is not necessarily the Soros or the world and not necessarily who’s the other guy in China. Yes, it is. This is as far as seeing them as something that is foreign money. Mm hmm. Foreign government money is being funneled through them. And America is under attack. And the American people have to realize that America is under attack. And we have to we have to fix that because, you know. You know why I’m working 77 hours a week? You know, I say because me, my kids and my grandkids, I want to leave them a better world. Mm hmm. And that’s what America it’s not about the money. It’s about giving them a better world. And that’s what I worry about. You’re worried about the kids, and so am I. Because look how fast we’ve we’ve spiraled into this. This sort of Marxist Islamist woke Reich. Ari, I see. You know who I mean? These people. You don’t even recognize our country with their their doctrines, their ideologies, their attacks on the United States or attacks on the Constitution. And New York become ground zero for some reason, hasn’t it? It has become ground zero. It was the perfect storm. President Trump told me, You got to get Curtis every race. Essentially it. He got out of the race. He and he says I’d rather have a Democrat even though, you know, Andrew Cuomo did have a socialist or a communist and we failed President Trump. Mhm. Yeah, it’s. And it was a perfect storm. It was a perfect storm. And what should happen now? I think the U.S. attorney in New York, Jay Clayton, is excellent. And we’re not he’s not waiting for the state attorney generals to put people away. If they if they had a a violation that touches a federal crime. Mm hmm. Jay Clayton uses the federal forces to come in and do whatever he has to do, that he’s not going to do anything and checks and balances from the state. I think a Bruce Blakeman, I was with him last night. I think he has a good shot. If people realize people have to realize what the heck is going on. I got to bring him back, you know? Yeah. Now. You’re right. You know, he he has a good shot. And it is what it is into what people keep yelling out. They keep talking the idea, keep telling people the truth. And that’s what we’re doing. We’re telling people the truth. And we want to get to a point where people realize, you know, in 92% of the American people believed Walter Cronkite. Right now, nobody believes any it. That’s true. Yeah. Well, I want the country to know something. I’m on your station because. Are you right? Yes. Yes. And I started out in your station. And get the truth out. Get the truth out. Thank you so much. And you, too. Thank you. Got a great line up on this station. We’ll keep fighting and keep fighting in that city. You know, we’re not all from New York, but we love New York. Whether they challenge the BBC, what we’re going to go do. I talked to the president about it, to Europe. And what does that mean, you see is not telling him, well, we’re going to do we’re going to go into Europe and try to because the Voice of America and the BBC does not tell the European people the truth. Are we going to have to use private stations? How are you going to do that? No, we’re we’re working it out right now. And well, these days, you know, five years ago, we said we’re going to sit down for dinner. We never did. Are you ever in? Well, we’ll do this off the air. We’ll do it. We’ll do it. I’ll make sure of it. I don’t go anywhere, you know You do. Yes. Thank you for everything you do. And God bless you. And God bless America. Let’s get the truth that. Thank you so much. You too, John. Take care of yourself. It’s a good man. Concealed city is about what’s going on in New York. And I don’t blame him. Because it’s going on in New York and Chicago. And L.A.. And Philadelphia and Detroit. It’s gone on in Boston and Pittsburgh. Kansas City and Cleveland and Cincinnati. Dallas. Plano, for crying out loud. Houston. Austin. We’re in every one of these markets. It’s crazy. Look at California, what’s happened in California. You know, 35, 40 years ago, the Republicans own that state. And we’re doing everything we can to help, you know, help black men and help Helton and. And pick some of these other candidates. And I’m quite serious about Maine. Some of you may be upset. I can’t control that. If you listen to my logic, I think you will agree with me. Plattner hates the military, trashes his own. His own services that he was in Marines and Army. Walks around not just with a a Nazi tattoo on his chest, but SS camp guard. Tattoo on his chest, and he was a fully grown adult when he chose to do that. And he’s trashing the American sniper. You remember him who’s now past basically insinuating he killed citizens to get his numbers up. How disgusting. He trashed another man who had a, you know, one of the helmet cameras. He took four bullets. Trashed him, mocked him. He’s done things in his things in his personal life that he used to brag about that literally perverted, horribly disgusting. And now he claims to be a communist. Which is why Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are attracted to him. And so, yes, I will support Susan Collins and I’ll know her. I’ve never talked to her and I don’t care. And I don’t care. I cannot. Pretend that it’s okay to elect open communists and Nazis to the United States Senate. And I’m not going to sit here and just and just accept it. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
You know, every now and then you need to talk to somebody who’s actually been successful in these businesses that are under attack. And you can see how stressful it is. It’s terrible. Terrible. You work your whole life. You work 80, 90 hours a week. And they act like there’s something wrong with you. Meanwhile, you come into the country illegally. You’re pushing the destruction of America and you deserve a freebie. No, I don’t think so.