The context is that he was posting on a news article about a fake police officer with SS tattoos carrying weapons to intimidate BLM protestors in Las Vegas.

https://archive.ph/EDNKt (this cnn article says his reddit username is p-hustle)

I used samac.io to search his deleted comments.

A few more comments:

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    To be fair, I didn’t recognize the symbol, but I’m also like a newborn when it comes to ppolitics.

    Yes, to be clear, I’m not accusing people who are simply actually unaware of it of anything. However, it’s an incredibly well-known symbol that the nazis used, maybe right behind the swastika and the SS symbol. Someone who is a politician and has had it tattooed on their body for 20 years could not be unaware of what it means.

    It’s also already been shown through his deleted r*ddit posts defending other people’s SS tattoos that there’s no way he was unaware.