Graham Platner Uses Wife As Human Shield After Sexting Scandal Emerges
“Really s**tty of you to put her in this position in the first place, dude, and now you’re making her answer for you? Just a pure scumbag right through to the core.”
The hits just keep coming for the Democrats’ golden boy, Graham Platner, with the latest revelations being eye-opening not just because they contain icky, salacious details that go well beyond fantasizing about self-pleasuring in porta-potties, but also because of how mainstream media outlets obtained the information.
The newest scandal first landed on the pages of The Wall Street Journal, which reported Saturday that the presumptive Maine Senate Democrat nominee had sexted with multiple women while Platner and his wife, Amy Gertner, were more or less still in the newlywed phase. Gertner alerted officials with his Senate campaign early on when they were conducting their own opposition research.
And now, several months later, and just ahead of the June primary, the public knows about them too:
Days after Graham Platner announced his Maine Senate bid, his wife informed the campaign about a potential political problem she had previously discovered on the oyster farmer’s phone: sexually explicit texts with several women, according to people familiar with the matter.
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.
While The WSJ didn’t provide details on the substance of the texts, they did note that Platner also still had an active account on Kix, which might be even more creepy than having a sexting affair:
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.
Except it appears “phustle0331” opted to strategically cover the Nazi tattoo, for some strange reason:
Worth noting that when Graham Platner was cheating on his wife & sexting with random women he strategically used his hand & phone to cover up his Nazi tattoo in the photos he sent to women because Platner knew exactly what his tattoo was all about. pic.twitter.com/MoSrepj1cX
— Izengabe (@Izengabe_) May 30, 2026
NEW: It’s real. Here is Graham Platner’s active profile on Kik, a “predators paradise” app known as a hotbed for child pornography, kidnapping, and sexual abuse.
Full story @realDailyWire from @TimRiceDC: https://t.co/8lpCwfo5ic pic.twitter.com/8yQqADkX7l
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) May 30, 2026
Incredibly, Platner now appears to be using his wife as a human shield to deflect from criticism:
On Saturday evening, she also released a lengthy direct-to-camera video acknowledging that the couple had faced challenges, but saying that “our marriage counselor helps, my personal counselor helps, Graham’s personal counselor helps, and we work on our mental health every day.”
“No marriage is perfect, and I don’t want a perfect marriage,” Ms. Gertner said. “I want my marriage, and I want to be married to Graham.”
Watch:
A message from my wife Amy: pic.twitter.com/dbDqjssevp
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) May 30, 2026
Neither the video nor his apologists’ excuses for him went over well on X:
Really shitty of you to put her in this position in the first place, dude, and now you’re making her answer for you?
Just a pure scumbag right through to the core.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 31, 2026
Platner has adopted the human shield strategy from Hamas but has opted to use his wife instead of a hospital. Interesting tactic https://t.co/7uI4msPFS9
— Aristonkle (@ParanoidPol) May 31, 2026
Platner cucked his wife and then made her post a video defending him. Absolute sociopath. https://t.co/pBh58gkj9O
— Magills (@magills_) May 31, 2026
Subjecting a spouse to humiliation like this is elite, Jill Biden level stuff. https://t.co/fJvAGL7YZY
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) May 31, 2026
The melt down after hitching a wagon to a Nazi is hilarious. Awful man did awful things and it’s nobody’s business. Sure. https://t.co/NNKoudLwnd
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 30, 2026
He uses her frequently on the campaign trail and the campaign is paying her, so it's absolutely voters' fucking business https://t.co/VuSRKiTqFu
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) May 30, 2026
Some of the wildest cope in the history of Twitter dot com coming out tonight https://t.co/U2NKq0znka
— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) May 30, 2026
Other factors to not support a candidate:
>had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years
>blames a senator for something he voluntarily did: enlisting in the Marines 2 years after Iraq war began
>claims to be anti-war, joined Blackwater AFTER the 2007 Nisur Square massacre https://t.co/Q36NJ5l1vK— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) May 30, 2026
Looks like the next round of payments from LC Media hit the Obama pod bros account. Of course they are defending Platner trolling for sex on a platform typically used by teenagers. https://t.co/e7qorEo5mx pic.twitter.com/5qqfjdWpGN
— Steve Robinson (@SteveRob) May 30, 2026
A few things to add to all of this: Clearly, this was sourced from either inside the campaign or from former staffers who left after the first of the Reddit posts were unearthed, and it just goes to show that there is indeed an internal war brewing among Democrats over whether they made a mistake with going all in for a complete political novice like Platner.
Some on X were even talking about how these oppo dumps could be groundwork for Democrats to do what they did to Joe Biden and essentially force or shame Platner to withdraw from the race so they can install a new nominee:
Per Maine law, Platner can quit after he is nominated without providing a reason prior to 5pm on the 2d Monday in July. The state party then names a replacement prior to 5pm on the 4th Monday in July. See link for details. https://t.co/46mk3p27sB
— Henry Olsen (@henryolsenEPPC) May 30, 2026
It's pretty clear that the Democrats strategy is to pull a Robert Torricelli with Graham Platner & swap him out for a more electable candidate. That's why Democrats are dropping all their op-research on him now. Republicans are not going to drop theirs until after July 14th. https://t.co/yxLuTBrboE
— Izengabe (@Izengabe_) May 30, 2026
Republicans have already indicated that the oppo they have on Platner was so wild that he’d probably “have to leave” Maine:
Mark Halperin said Friday on 2WAY’s “The Morning Meeting” that an NRSC source tells him the opposition research they have yet to release on presumed Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is so damaging that he won’t just lose the election, “he’ll have to leave the state.”
Platner is the presumed winner of the Democratic primary despite reports that he had a tattoo with Nazi iconography and a history of online comments that could offend almost anyone.
“The NRSC says they’re going to go so negative on Platner,” Halperin said. “I saw one of the spokespeople say he’ll have to leave the state. He won’t just lose the race, he’ll have to leave Maine.”
Important to remember: All of the oppo research coming out about Graham Platner and his Nazi tats was coming from Democrats, not Republicans.
The GOP hasn’t even gotten started with this guy.
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) April 30, 2026
I can’t wait.
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Looks like the Maine Nazi has a streak of Muslim in him too,
Morris Katz is a fucking embarrassment to Jews everywhere, He should do us all a favor and curl up and die. We don’t need Nazi supporting Jews. Muslim supporting Jews are enough of a problem as are progressive Jews.
“Per Maine law, Platner can quit after he is nominated without providing a reason prior to 5pm on the 2d Monday in July…. It’s pretty clear that the Democrats strategy is to pull a Robert Torricelli”
If the Democrats are “pulling a Torricelli,” the deadline is irrelevant. The whole point of a “Torricelli” is that the Democrats get to do whatever they want, whenever they want, regardless of any inconvenient dates mandated in THE LAW.
Thought it was July 13 for the dropout deadline. Anyway, my money is on him dropping out around then, the Party putting Mills back onto the ballot, and ramming a few bazillion dollars into her campaign to spend her across the finish line in November.
“Platner has adopted the human shield strategy from Hamas but has opted to use his wife instead of a hospital”
Hamas forced people to be shields
Platner’s wife volunteered
The people Hamas used were victims
Platner’s wife’s an idiot
Keep in mind that Maine is a seriously (bleep) up place right now. The southern part especially has gone so far left that you’ll need to use the James Webb Space Telescope to it. They’re leaving socialism behind and running head long into communism.
My point being that Platner isn’t the Democrat standard bearer in spite of his abhorrent views and positions, he’s the standard bearer because of them. Everyone knew. They threw Janet Mills under the bus. The sitting governor threw in the towel because she ran out of money.
This dude is dangerous. Perhaps the party will jettison him and install someone else but that person will not be any less left.
In spite of all this, odds makers are still favoring Platner over Collins.
What a mess!
“The southern part especially has gone so far left”
My go-to analogy for leftist colonizers until now has been locusts.
I’m seriously thinking of making the move to black mold.
“He won’t just lose the race, he’ll have to leave Maine.”
REEEEEEE! Republicans break up families!
What are those thousands of poor little oysters going to do for a daddy now?
She needs to change her name to Eva Braun, and his campaign slogan should be obvious: MAINE KAMPF!
Stole your idea. Gonna make T-shirts for Republicans to wear to the polls.
I hope this demonstration finally ends all nonsense about ‘needing a moderate to win moderate Democrats’.
Collins is the most milquetoast RINO moderate its possible to be, and yet the Democrats are still supporting the literal Nazi tattooed man over her.
ANY Democrat will be supported over ANY Republican, period.
None of this will make a difference to Platner voters. The Nazi tattoo and the rabid antisemitism does not seem to have cost him a single vote, and the misogynism and philandering will only arouse and titillate the female voters who were already going to vote for him.
cant eait for his victory speech
to be read in german and/or arabic
“Heil Mohammed!”
She has the symptoms of an abused spouse.
Maybe. But it is just as likely she is another Hillary! or Frau Doktor Jill Biden: a wife greedy for political power and willing to use her husband to get it.
Remember Fetterman’s bitter half? Good times!
Where is she? Haven’t heard from her since he was elected,
there are sadists and there are masochists by nature or choice
when laws get politicized they lose their common sense and gain emotion
my first thought when watching that video was “hostage video”
From everything I hear on the ground here in New England is the independent voters aren’t going for this guy.
I don’t think this race is close.
I could be wrong.
The wretched and vile communist/National Socialist Dhimmi-crat, Platner, needs to become a Muslim tranny, in a desperate bid to deflect attention away from his innumerable and disqualifying traits and scandals.
“I am now ‘transitioning’ to become a ‘trans woman,’ and a devout Muslim, thus fulfilling two of my lifelong ambitions.” — “Graham Platner.
Platner’s wife wants to be married to a manifestly evil, vile, mendacious, Jew-hating, communist National Socialist. Per her own statement.
She’s as wicked and delusional as Platner is.
Nah, she just wants the cushy Senator’s Wife life. But she is wicked.
well then her last name could have been
obama
On Saturday evening, she also released a lengthy direct-to-camera video acknowledging that the couple had faced challenges, but saying that “our marriage counselor helps, my personal counselor helps, Graham’s personal counselor helps, and we work on our mental health every day.”
Why are we even considering someone who needs that many counselors? Crazy Nazi and his cray cray wife should be nowhere near elected office.
actually,,, the may be overqualified
It’s very nice that his marriage has not been ruined and his wife is understanding. Congratulations. But that’s irrelevant because the state of his marriage was never the point. The whole point was about what sort of character he is, and his wife’s forgiveness and understanding and support doesn’t change that.
Platner didn’t put her in this position. She knew what she was marrying, hell the guy had a Nazi tattoo, and she put herself in this position. When the sexting came up she could have bailed and didn’t. She also could have refused to do the hostage video but she did. What is going on in their marriage is none of my business. It’s the totality of things about this guy that disqualifies him.
Tawdry is US: the Democrat party.
Looks like there are a lot of people here who are incredulous that the Maine Democrats are going to support this miscreant no matter what. They will all dutifully vote as instructed, and the fraud machine will provide whatever else is needed. “Nothing to see here, move along!” Is the order of the day, so looks like we will get to see how the real fascists operate, in case there are any lingering doubts.
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