You're going to skip over his use of the r word before his tattoo coverup ?
Platner covered his tattoo up in Oct.
Several months later, when discussing the coverup, he used the r word.
Several months later he apologized for using the r word several months earlier.
Huh?.
"Platner said he didn’t know what it was until it became an issue during this campaign. Even when someone working with his campaign told him there was a rumor going around that he had a white supremacist tattoo, he said he didn’t connect it to the skull and crossbones on his chest. “I was like, ‘Well, that’s the fucking most r-tarded shit I’ve ever heard in my life,’” he told me. “‘No, I don’t have a white supremacist tattoo,’ and I never thought about it again. And then it came up later on, and I was like, ‘God fucking damn it.’” (He had the tattoo covered in late October.)"
It appears he used the r word in April? to describe his reaction last fall or earlier. If it matters.