Platner's campaign in trouble: if you thought the Nazi tattoo was bad, check this out

Graham Platner, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Maine who’s come under fire for a Nazi tattoo and apparently masturbating in port-a-potties sent sexually explicit texts to other women while he was married, the Wall Street Journal reported. And let us not forget his brutal comments about a U.S. soldier getting wounded and how he said he should have been killed instead.

But it gets worse.

Platner’s wife informed his campaign about the problem days after he announced he was running, the paper reported.

Platner and Amy Gertner got married in 2024. Within a year of marriage, she found sexually explicit text messages from several women in the spring of 2025, the Journal reported.

On May 30 this year, the Wall Street Journal detailed how his wife discovered those sexually explicit texts he exchanged with other women in 2025, quite early in their marriage. She flagged this to a trusted campaign aide last August, ahead of the comrade Bernie Sanders rally, as she was worried it might have a negative political impact upon decent people who find that kind of behavior repugnant and immoral. [Not that it seemed to be a serious enough problem for her to leave the pig.]

Anyway, the campaign saw it as a private marital issue that should be handled through counseling, and they went ahead with the events. Gertner later said they worked through it and came out of it with a stronger marriage.

Some social media and local reports also reference pre-campaign complaints from Maine women about Platner on dating apps (e.g., Tinder interactions followed by ghosting).

Platner has not publicly detailed any of these situations. Not the crude discussions of prostitution overseas and his defense of married men who have sex with prostitutes.

But despite the immorally bankrupt behavior of Platner and the many who don't see his scumbaggery as an issue, he leads Susan Collins in the polls.

Back in 2019, he made comments about avoiding taxes by "banging hookers in Thailand" instead of dealing with a wife at home.

What is happening to our country? 

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