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The widow of \u201cAmerican Sniper\u201d hero Chris Kyle is blasting a Democratic Senate candidate for accusing her husband of intentionally killing civilians to inflate his kill count.<\/p>\n

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In an appearance on Fox News, Taya Kyle accused Senate hopeful Graham Platner of Maine of attention-seeking and cowardice.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing says, I want attention more than disparaging a national hero who\u2019s also dead,\u201d Ms. Kyle said on \u201cThe Sunday Briefing,\u201d calling Mr. Platner\u2019s charges a \u201ccheap political trick.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is cowardly, it\u2019s lowbrow to lie about somebody else, and it distracts from what you\u2019ve probably said,\u201d the widow said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, it shows a total inability to lead with character. For me he would be out of the running immediately,\u201d Ms. Kyle added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. Platner, an Iraq war veteran aiming to replace Republican Sen. Susan Collins, has drawn numerous controversies regarding his past online remarks and behavior, most prominently a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Platner has not publicly reacted to Ms. Kyle\u2019s charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The interview came in reaction to the resurfacing of remarks Mr. Platner made in a 2024 podcast on military issues in which he said indiscriminate sniper shootings were ordinary behavior and Chris Kyle\u2019s claims an example of such unprofessionalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHis stories about how many people he was shooting certainly tracked with the behavior I witnessed, and people I knew witnessed down at the Gov Center, which is it\u2019s relatively easy to get high numbers like that if you\u2019re a little less discriminating your fire than say a more professional unit would be,\u201d he said on the \u201cGreen Beret Chronicle Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of Kyle\u2019s accounts of his service in Iraq and other behavior in his best-selling book \u201cAmerican Sniper,\u201d which became the basis for a smash-hit movie starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood, have been disputed by other veterans and\/or not confirmed by the Pentagon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sniper counts by their nature are often uncertain and depend more than other war accounts on the personal word of the shooter.<\/p>\n

Kyle spent much of his post-service life helping other combat veterans with PTSD and related issues but was murdered by a Marine in 2013 at one such session.<\/p>\n

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