Democrats’ forced marriage with Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner could cost them far more than one swing seat – it might cost them any chance at winning back the Senate.
Over the past week, a flood of shocking revelations about Platner’s past online comments and marital infidelity have rocked the political world. Along with sending sexual text messages to multiple women while married to his current wife, Platner also mocked a Purple Heart recipient; called Army soldiers “fat, lazy trash”; referred to himself as a “communist”; said that rural Americans are stupid and racist; complained about a “Thai prostitute loophole” closing; and blamed women victims of sexual assault – and that’s just a start.
Platner now claims that those comments, most of which were made on Reddit, were written during a “dark time” in his life when he was suffering from PTSD following deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan between roughly 2005 and 2016. But Platner’s sexual texts with other women outside his marriage were far more recent – he just married his wife, Amy, in 2023.
He also allegedly still has an active profile on Kik, a popular messaging app used to coordinate sexual encounters. Before the profile was exposed publicly, it featured a shirtless picture of Platner with a towel wrapped around his waist. As Fox News reported, “Kik has been labeled a ‘predator’s paradise’ by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation over concerns about child exploitation and predatory behavior on the platform,” although there is no evidence that Platner used the platform to communicate with minors.
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