Graham Platner has skeletons dancing out of his closet, and it’s an open question just how many more will come spilling out before the June 9th primary – and beyond.

Honest question for Democrats – out of all people, you picked THIS guy? Platner ticked off all the boxes that the Democrats thought could win in Maine – a military veteran, an oyster farmer, a progressive radical who gained Bernie Sanders’s blessing.

EXCEPT… the military veteran has mocked other veterans. The oyster farmer turns out to be from a wealthy family whose father bankrolled his mortgage. The progressive radical has a Nazi tattoo, and has twisted views on women, sex, and relationships. And now we are learning that he has even fewer morals, especially when it comes to respecting his wife.

The news broke in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday that Graham Platner had been sexting women, and that his wife was the one who discovered this. Amy Gertner, who also works for her husband’s Senate campaign, revealed this to campaign aides, who then chose to not get ahead of this. That was not a good decision.

Amy Gertner, who married Platner in 2023, told the campaign about messages she had found early in their marriage in the spring of 2025. In late August, as some aides were conducting opposition research on their own candidate, Gertner disclosed the texts to a campaign aide to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s nascent campaign, those people said. The campaign had been preparing for a major rally over Labor Day weekend last year with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was set to officially endorse Platner at the event.

Aides ultimately decided the texts were a private matter that was being handled by the couple in marriage counseling, a campaign official said. The rally proceeded as planned, with thousands in attendance.

There was another extremely problematic revelation in that Wall Street Journal report.

Platner also has an active account on Kik, a popular, private messaging app. Platner’s profile shows a mirror selfie of him shirtless with a towel wrapped around his waist. Many of his tattoos are clearly visible in the picture.

The Wall Street Journal verified the account on the app, a messaging platform that has been widely used for sexual encounters.

The account is listed with the user ID phustle0331, which is similar to other social-media handles that Platner has used, including Reddit and a now-deleted Instagram account. It was created in 2016.

That are two VERY big skeletons in the closet that are now out in the open. First of all, the Kik account is problematic because of its use by child predators – and Platner’s profile picture is yet another shirtless photo, with some very careful hand placement for that selfie.

The more I think about this the more it makes me laugh grimly. Hilarious collateral proof that he knew exactly what a Totenkopf was. https://t.co/75v2hrznIb

— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) May 31, 2026

Second, the sexting with other women. The campaign was ready to scapegoat someone (more on that in a second), but the reality is that we don’t know – YET – what is floating out there, and WHO has it.

Ding ding. Any underage? Dems need to worry.

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) May 31, 2026

The Platner campaign then decided to run a double-pronged effort to deal with these new revelations. First, wife Amy was sent out to do a video on behalf of her husband.

“It makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip, instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on, like healthcare and education and childcare,” Gertner groused in a video addressing the scandal.

In the raw video Gertner cut after the scandal exploded, she acknowledged that between her and Graham, they had three counselors help them with their marriage and said her oyster farmer is “probably a genius.”

“I admire the f— out of him. So when there are news articles about our marriage, it’s just extra sh—y,” Gertner went on. “Can I say that online? I hope I can.”

The problem is, of course, that Platner highlighted his marriage when he and Amy took a break to pursue IVF. Let’s just say that the campaign’s use of Amy Gertner as a human shield has been problematic before she was sent out to do this video to defend her husband’s cheating.

And yet, disturbingly less cringe than when he made her praise his sperm. https://t.co/qP8qYBSo4O

— Erik Telford (@ErikTelford) May 31, 2026

Then the second angle was revealed – and Gertner laid that groundwork in her video by referring to the sexting reports as “gossip.” Their campaign strategist, Morris Katz, decided he had a scapegoat – Genevieve McDonald. For those of you who are asking “who the heck is that?”, McDonald is the campaign aide who quit after the Nazi tattoo came to light, and she refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement. McDonald did talk to the WSJ, she says, but they say they went on to verify her claims. Katz, however, decided that McDonald was to blame, and called her a liar and demanded that she deny everything.

Morris Katz, the 27-year-old hot-shot strategist who helped catapult Mamdani to Gracie Mansion, allegedly pressed former Platner campaign staffer Genevieve McDonald to deny the sexting scandal to the press.

“Just want to be clear on where we are right now,” Katz wrote to McDonald through a third party, according to messages reported by Bangor Daily News.

“If the story goes in its current iteration, we’ll communicate directly on the record, and by name, that Genevieve violated the personal trust of Amy and Graham and shared explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign.”

Katz, who owns the firm Fight Agency, is working for Platner — who is the de facto Dem nominee for Maine’s Senate race.

(McDonald) was one of three officials who quit Platner’s campaign last fall after wild details about his past emerged.

Katz had been incensed after the Platner campaign caught wind of a forthcoming Wall Street Journal story about Platner sexting up to a dozen women after marrying his wife in 2023.

The Katz demanded that McDonald call up the Wall Street Journal to deny the sexting scandal to the outlet and record herself doing that so she could send it to the campaign, BDN reported.

But McDonald didn’t take kindly to being threatened and instead went on the record with the New York Times, which confirmed the bombshell story shortly after the Wall Street Journal reported it.

McDonald herself confirmed this on her Facebook page, that she went to the New York Times to verify THEIR reporting once Katz threatened her. The NYT article reiterates that McDonald’s accounting of events was confirmed by others.

At this point, the campaign simply gave up and said yeah, the sexting happened.

Graham Platner exchanged sexually explicit texts with multiple women while married to his wife, Amy Gertner, his campaign confirmed to POLITICO on Saturday, the latest scandal he has faced since launching his Maine Senate campaign last year.

In a statement, Gertner slammed a former friend for spreading “malicious gossip” in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report that she had informed her husband’s campaign of the texts in late August.

“I confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend,” she said. “In the months since, I have had to watch as she spread malicious gossip to anyone who would take her call. I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives — the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind — and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and the invasion of our privacy.”

While Gertner did not name the friend in question, Genevieve McDonald, a former senior campaign staffer who shared a screenshot of her texts with Gertner with The New York Times, responded by telling POLITICO that “the Platner campaign confirmed these events occurred.”

Gertner, who is paid by the campaign as its volunteer coordinator, said the pair’s relationship is “stronger than ever before.”

But not a peep had been heard from Platner himself. Until Sunday evening.

Well this is certainly a strategy https://t.co/wpY1ZwddQn

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 31, 2026

Platner had some choice words for McDonald, as well as the outlets, during a TV interview with a local ABC affiliate.

“It’s no surprise to me that the establishment media outlets are just gonna run gossip instead of wanting to talk about the things that actually matter in this race, which are the material realities that the Mainers are working with,” Platner told WMTV in Maine.

“These people are gonna try to make this race about anything but what it’s supposed to be about, which is policy. They never want to talk about policy,” he continued. “Amy and I have a very loving and very happy marriage. They would very much like to try to rip that apart.”

Platner then denied the stories were factual.

“But the stories are true, right? About the texts?” a reporter asked.

“No, no, this is the amazing part,” Planter answered. “The Wall Street Journal and New York Times ran stories without any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer. I’m sorry that’s, frankly, journalistic malpractice. We pushed back on it, they won it, they did it anyways.”

“So, are you confirming that the messages did not exist?” the reporter asked.

“I’m confirming that what Genevieve McDonald said in The New York Times is not true,” Platner said.

“So, you never met with her about uncomfortable — for lack of a better word — “sexting messages,” as the campaign was going?” the reporter asked.

“We talked about things in Amy and I’s marriage that we’ve gone through over the years,” Platner said. “We talked about that because that’s our marriage and we discussed it with the campaign. What Genevieve McDonald claims isn’t true.”

Can someone please tell Graham Platner that HIS OWN CAMPAIGN HAS CONFIRMED THE SEXTING. It stopped being “gossip” that he, or his wife, or his campaign strategist could blame on Genevieve McDonald, or the Wall Street Journal, or the New York Times, the instant that the campaign confirmed that it happened! It’s now an established fact, and nothing that McDonald claims has been disproven. (The campaign is now trying to claim that he didn’t deny the texts, but this makes no sense, and indicates that they know the hole just got deeper.) What Platner, his wife, and the campaign want to complain about is that yet another of his dirty little secrets has seen the light of day. Also, notice that there are ZERO apologies, or even a dash of humility, from Platner himself. This is all someone else’s fault, not his! He seems like the kind of guy who would gaslight his wife by telling her that the other women started it, or it was her fault that he was talking to other women in the first place. And as these skeletons keep falling out of the closet and poking the campaign squarely in the eye with their bony hands, other Democrats are getting VERY nervous.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., admitted to having “concerns” on Sunday over the latest scandals surrounding Graham Platner, the presumptive Maine Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate.

While appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Booker was asked about the latest scandal plaguing Platner’s campaign after it was reported that Platner had sent explicit messages to at least six women despite being married.

“Do you have concerns with the weight of all these controversies that it may jeopardize Democratic hopes to get that Senate seat in Maine?” host Jonathan Karl asked Booker.

“Yes, I have concerns,” Booker said. “That guy has questions to answer, and that’s what campaigns are for.”

Booker then pivoted to discussing his concerns over the Democratic Party failing to take back the Senate in 2026.

“I know that so much is riding on Democrats taking control of the Senate,” Booker said. “That this election, if we do not get the votes necessary to take care of the House and the Senate, we will continue to have an out-of-control president.”

So, what do the Democrats in Maine do? Double down on Graham and hope that he doesn’t go crackers if yet another scandal breaks, or cut their losses and pull Janet Mills back in (or someone else)? According to Maine law, Planter can quit the race without providing any reason by the second Monday in July (which would be after the primary), and that would allow the state party to nominate someone in his place without running another election. Is that the end goal? Let Platner have his moment, and then drop all the dirty laundry and force him out?

I guess the question is, just how dirty is this laundry going to get?

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