Amy Gertner, who married Platner in 2024, told the campaign about the messages after finding them in the spring of 2025, shortly after Platner announced his candidacy for the US Senate.
The wife of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner reportedly informed his campaign about sexually explicit messages he had sent to multiple women during their marriage. This comes as his sexually suggestive Kik profile has also been revealed.
Amy Gertner, who married Platner in 2024, told the campaign about the messages after finding them in the spring of 2025, shortly after Platner announced his candidacy for the US Senate. According to the Wall Street Journal, Gertner disclosed the existence of the texts to a campaign aide in August as campaign staff conducted opposition research ahead of a planned Labor Day rally featuring Senator Bernie Sanders.
The New York Times confirmed the story, adding that Gertner spoke with a Platner aide and said that her husband had been sending explicit texts to up to a dozen women. An official told the outlet it was up to six women.
Additionally, the Journal confirmed a Kik profile belonged to Graham, which was created in 2016 under the username Phustle0331.
Platner's Kik account
Platner's profile shows him shirtless with a towel wrapped around his waist. Kik has also been labeled by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) as a “Predator’s Paradise" due to the anonymous nature of the messaging service as well as the large number of young users.
Between 2013 and 2018, the app was involved in over 1,100 child sex abuse cases, per the BBC.
The texts are the latest in scandals against Platner as he looks to challenge Susan Collins for the Maine Senate seat in November. He has previously been facing backlash for having a tattoo that is the same symbol as one used by Nazi SS soldiers during World War II. Platner denied knowing the tattoo's intent when he got it, but his ex-campaign manager claimed he was aware of the tattoo’s meaning before having it covered.
Platner has also faced attention for resurfaced posts from a Reddit account, including comments he made that were racially insensitive and crude. Among the reported posts were remarks using slurs and politically inflammatory language, such as slurs against homosexuals and making comments about black people not tipping at restaurants.
In other posts, Platner called himself a communist and endorsed political violence against political opponents.
"There are times in this world when, for the good of tolerance and humanity, you need to kill a motherf*cker," Platner wrote. "Sadly most people who are true believers in tolerance and humanity find that activity repulsive. Which I suppose is morally good, but pragmatically a shortfall."
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