Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat running to unseat Senator Susan Collins, has been caught with an active profile on Kik — the anonymous messaging app that law enforcement has long called a "predator's paradise" and a hotbed for child pornography. And the best part? His own wife, Amy Gertner, caught him sexting multiple women on the platform and flagged it to the campaign. Their response? Bury it.
Nothing says "family values" like a secret profile on an app where an estimated 70% of users are between the ages of 13 and 24. Really inspiring stuff from the guy who wants to represent Maine in the United States Senate.
According to the Daily Wire, Platner created his Kik account on June 26, 2016, when he was almost 32 years old. His username — "phustle0331" — matched his Instagram handle, Phustle0331, making him about as anonymous as a guy wearing a name tag at a crime scene. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has repeatedly flagged Kik as a platform rife with child exploitation, and between 2013 and 2018, the app was linked to more than 1,100 child sexual abuse cases in the UK alone.
But sure, Graham. Totally normal place for a grown man and aspiring senator to hang out.
Gertner discovered her husband was using the app to sext multiple women and brought it to campaign staff. And what did the campaign do with this little bombshell? They sat on it. Covered it up. Pretended it didn't exist. Because apparently the path to the Senate runs straight through a coverup of your candidate's activity on an app so dangerous that a Maine man was sentenced to 30-60 years in June 2025 for crimes connected to it.
And Platner's social media history isn't exactly helping his case. In one 2017 post, the would-be senator bragged about how he'd "jerk off every time I sit in a portash*tter." In another gem, he described graffiti as "beautiful," "engorged and veiny," moving "towards its penetrative glory." This is the man Democrats want negotiating legislation.
Then there's the post where Platner called a Purple Heart recipient a "dumb motherf*cker" who "didn't deserve to live." A Purple Heart recipient. A wounded veteran. The guy polling nearly 8 points ahead of Susan Collins according to RealClearPolitics thinks wounded warriors don't deserve to live.
Let that sink in.
Thirteen-year-old Nicole Madison Lowell was kidnapped and killed by a predator she met on Kik. That's the platform Graham Platner chose to set up shop on. That's the app his own wife caught him using to message other women. And that's the scandal his campaign decided voters in Maine didn't need to know about.
The Democrats keep telling us they're the party that protects women and children. Graham Platner had a profile on an app synonymous with child exploitation, got caught by his own wife, and his campaign buried it like a mob witness. Maine deserves better than this — and Susan Collins is looking better by the minute.