A fresh round of damaging reports emerges emerging from the scandal-plagued campaign of Graham Plattner, the presumptive Democratic nominee running for U.S. Senate in Maine. The Wall Street Journal and New York Times report that Plaltner s wife, Amy Gertner, told campaign officials last year that she previously discovered sexually explicit text messages between her husband and multiple women.
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00:02:54.080A fresh round of damaging reports emerging from the scandal-plagued campaign of Graham Plattner,
00:03:00.300the presumptive Democrat nominee running for U.S. Senate in Maine. The Wall Street Journal
00:03:04.860and New York Times reporting Plattner's wife, Amy Gertner, told campaign officials last year that
00:03:10.940she previously discovered sexually explicit text messages between her husband and multiple women.
00:03:18.200Plattner and Gertner marrying in November of 2023, Plattner's campaign officially launching
00:03:23.680less than two years later, on August 19, 2025. According to the Times, Gertner contacted
00:03:30.440Genevieve McDonald, then political director of the campaign, just days before Plattner was set
00:03:35.840to appear at a Labor Day rally with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont last year, raising
00:03:41.120concerns that her husband's messages could become a political liability. McDonald telling the Times
00:03:47.140that Gertner described the messages as, quote, sexting, adding that Plattner had been communicating
00:03:52.900with as many as a dozen women. The Times reporting a current campaign official has confirmed the
00:03:59.700exchanges, though clarifying that Plattner had only messaged up to six women and stopped before
00:04:06.400the campaign actually launched, which they appear to think makes a difference. Campaign aides
00:04:12.280reportedly deciding the issue was a private matter being handled by Plattner and Gertner
00:04:16.580in marriage counseling. Last October, McDonald resigning as political director of the campaign
00:04:22.300amid mounting controversies over Plattner's dicey past social media posts, as well as his
00:04:28.380chest tattoo widely regarded as a Nazi symbol. Then, as reporters at the Wall Street Journal
00:04:33.960and New York Times were preparing stories on the sexting allegations, the Bangar Daily News
00:04:39.040reporting one of Plattner's top advisors, Morris Katz, sent quite a warning on Friday to McDonald
00:04:45.400through an intermediary. The message reportedly telling McDonald she would be publicly accused
00:04:50.640of lying, betraying the couple's trust, and of trying to sabotage the campaign if she dared to
00:04:56.180speak to reporters. The move apparently backfiring, though, with McDonald then agreeing to go on the
00:05:02.020record with The New York Times, telling the paper, quote, the U.S. Senate is not a training ground
00:05:06.960for redemption. It is a place for proven leaders with moral clarity and integrity. The Journal's
00:05:12.840report surfacing another issue involving Plattner's extensive online footprint, an account on Kik.
00:05:19.080That's a private messaging app with a long history of child safety concerns. The National Center on
00:05:25.060Sexual Exploitation, referring to Kik as, quote, a predator's paradise, citing the app's anonymous
00:05:31.540messaging features and its history of allowing underage users to communicate with adults.
00:05:37.500The journal reporting it verified an account tied to Plattner using the handle PHustle0331,
00:05:45.200similar to handles he has used on other social media platforms. The Daily Wire reporting the
00:05:50.640account was created in 2016 when Plattner was 32 years old. The profile featuring a shirtless
00:05:57.220mirror selfie of a man wearing only a towel with his face out of frame, but with visible tattoos
00:06:03.760matching Plattner's. Plattner's campaign telling the journal he deleted the app from his phone
00:06:08.720years ago, but never deactivated the account. Plattner's wife, Amy Gertner, who is reportedly
00:06:14.460on the campaign payroll, recording a video response posted Saturday night to Plattner's
00:06:19.540account on X. It makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful
00:06:28.960that there's a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of
00:06:37.940talking about real issues that Graham is running on, like health care and education and child
00:06:47.060care. I just really wanted to make sure that everyone knows that Graham and I have a great
00:06:53.880marriage. Being married is hard. Being newly married is hard. Being newly married and going
00:07:00.860through infertility is hard. Being newly married going through infertility and a senate campaign
00:07:07.840is is hard. Our marriage counselor helps. My personal counselor helps. Graham's personal
00:07:15.100counselor helps. And we work on our mental health every day. Plattner speaking yesterday to local
00:07:21.800outlet WMTW denying McDonald's story, sort of. This is the amazing part. The Wall Street Journal,
00:07:28.900New York Times ran stories without any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer.
00:07:35.860I'm sorry. That's frankly, journalistic malpractice. We pushed back on it. They
00:07:42.400want it they did it anyways did not exist the messages they did not I'm
00:07:50.320confirming that what Genevieve McDonald said in the New York Times is not true
00:07:54.520so you never met with her about uncomfortable for lack of a better word
00:07:59.260sexting messages as the campaign was going we talked about things in Amy and
00:08:04.000I's marriage that we've gone through over the years we talked about that
00:08:07.400because that's our marriage and we discussed it with the campaign what
00:08:11.440Genevieve McDonald claims, isn't true. Plattner now the presumptive Democratic nominee after Maine
00:08:17.300Governor Janet Mills, the establishment favorite, dropped out of the race in late April,0.92
00:08:21.880citing a lack of funds to continue her campaign. Plattner's remaining Democratic challengers are
00:08:27.580polling in the low single digits ahead of the June 9th primary. He is expected to face incumbent
00:08:32.880Republican Senator Susan Collins in November in a race Democrats see as one of their best
00:08:37.580chances to pick up a Senate seat in the midterms. Yesterday, multiple Democrats asked on the Sunday
00:08:42.980shows about the latest revelations surrounding Plattner, each offering similar evasive responses.
00:08:49.600Here, U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim of New Jersey and Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
00:08:55.080That guy has questions to answer, and that's what campaigns are for. But when I go all over New
00:08:59.840Jersey and see hundreds and hundreds of thousands of New Jerseans losing their health care and
00:09:04.340millions more seeing their health care costs go up. I know that so much is riding on Democrats
00:09:09.340taking control of the Senate. You know, this information is out there with any campaign in
00:09:14.060the country. The character and the transparency about the different candidates is going to come
00:09:19.640out. That's part of a campaign. But what I am, what I do hear from people in New Jersey around
00:09:24.540the country is that they don't trust this U.S. Senate right now led by the Republicans.
00:09:30.060I mean, Grant Plattner is somebody that served our country. He served his community. He certainly admitted that he has made mistakes, but I think this is going to be a pretty clear contrast in Maine between somebody who has spent his life protecting us versus somebody who seems to be protecting Donald Trump's corruption.
00:09:49.980The Real Clear Politics polling average currently shows Plattner leading Senator Collins by 7.8 points. More on this later today on The MK Show.
00:10:00.060More than 13 weeks into the U.S.-Iran war and a peace deal remains out of reach for now.
00:10:07.260President Trump on Friday laying out terms for a possible peace agreement on Truth Social,
00:10:12.300including that Iran, quote, will never have a nuclear weapon or bomb, that the Strait of Hormuz,
00:10:17.320quote, must be immediately open, and that enriched nuclear material buried underground, quote,
00:10:22.840will be unearthed by the United States and destroyed. The president ending the post writing,
00:10:28.700quote, I will be meeting now in the Situation Room to make a final determination. But no final
00:10:34.340determination arrived. Instead, after two hours of discussions with top aides, the president
00:10:39.640reportedly attempting to toughen the terms of a potential framework. According to the New York
00:10:44.740Times, Mr. Trump raising concerns about provisions that would unfreeze Iranian funds. Iran has said
00:10:51.160it will not negotiate on its nuclear program unless and until we release some $12 billion of
00:10:57.280its frozen assets. Axios reporting President Trump also requesting changes to some of the wording
00:11:02.920regarding the Strait of Hormuz, though the nature of those modifications remains unclear.
00:11:08.280The nuclear section of the proposal? Also still uncertain, including what happens to Iran's
00:11:13.520enriched uranium stockpile and what restrictions would be placed on future enrichment. President
00:11:19.480Trump seeking more detail on that front, with one senior administration official saying the
00:11:23.480president wants, quote, more specifics about how the U.S. gets the material and the timing.
00:11:28.980Whether Iran has agreed to anything at all around the uranium is also unclear. It has previously
00:11:34.960dismissed as baseless. Earlier, Trump comments that its stockpile would be destroyed, reports
00:11:41.040Iranian media. President Trump speaking to his daughter-in-law, Laura Trump, Saturday on Fox
00:11:46.080about some of the nuclear language still being negotiated. One guarantee that I have to have is
00:11:51.380there will be no nuclear weapons they've agreed to that and it was very interesting they said
00:11:56.980they originally said we will not develop a nuclear weapon i said well what happens if you buy a
00:12:01.540nuclear weapon so now it says we will not develop or in any way purchase a military weapon that's a
00:12:07.140big difference so uh we're getting what we want slowly very tough negotiators it takes a long time
00:12:15.060i'm in no hurry i'd like to say i'm in a hurry because you know what gasoline prices are going
00:12:19.540going to come tumbling down. But if you're going to be in a hurry, you're not going to make a good
00:12:22.920deal. And slowly but surely, we're getting, I think, what we want. And if we don't get what
00:12:28.520we want, we're going to end it a different way. Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammed Bager
00:12:33.280Galiboff, warning yesterday that the U.S. is not to be trusted, saying there's no deal until
00:12:39.720Iranian rights, whatever that means, are protected, with Iran's foreign minister adding
00:12:44.980everything that is being said now is speculation. Axios reports Trump was told it could take
00:12:50.840roughly three days for the Iranians to respond, with one senior administration official saying,
00:12:56.160quote, they're literally in caves and they're not using email. As the diplomatic effort continues,
00:13:02.480several Americans injured last week after an Iranian missile was shot down near an airbase
00:13:07.340in Kuwait. MSNOW reporting a U.S. official confirms four American troops and three contractors
00:13:13.640suffered, quote, minor injuries last Wednesday. The outlet reporting all seven returned to duty
00:13:19.100within 24 hours. Coming up, California voters heading to the polls tomorrow as a new poll