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Top Graham Platner adviser threatened former aide over sexting stories
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/31/politics/top-graham-platner-adviser-threatened-former-aide-over-sexting-stories/An adviser to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner warned a former aide she would be accused of lying and sabotage if she cooperated with news outlets reporting on sexually explicit messages Platner sent to women, according to a message reviewed by the Bangor Daily News.
Morris Katz, a strategist with the Platner campaign, delivered the Friday warning through an intermediary to former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald, who left the campaign last fall and spoke to The Wall Street Journal and New York Times. The outlets published stories in quick succession on Saturday about the messages that had been flagged by Platner’s wife at the outset of his campaign last summer.
“Just want to be clear on where we are right now,” Katz wrote in the message that McDonald shared exclusively with the BDN. “If the story goes in its current iteration we’ll communicate directly on the record, and by name, that Genevieve violated the personal trust of Amy and Graham and shared explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign.”
The Platner campaign has confirmed the existence of the messages. A campaign official told the Times that Platner had been communicating with up to six women, and that aides concluded when they learned of the matter that it was a private one the couple had addressed in counseling.
Morris Katz, a strategist with the Platner campaign, delivered the Friday warning through an intermediary to former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald, who left the campaign last fall and spoke to The Wall Street Journal and New York Times. The outlets published stories in quick succession on Saturday about the messages that had been flagged by Platner’s wife at the outset of his campaign last summer.
“Just want to be clear on where we are right now,” Katz wrote in the message that McDonald shared exclusively with the BDN. “If the story goes in its current iteration we’ll communicate directly on the record, and by name, that Genevieve violated the personal trust of Amy and Graham and shared explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign.”
The Platner campaign has confirmed the existence of the messages. A campaign official told the Times that Platner had been communicating with up to six women, and that aides concluded when they learned of the matter that it was a private one the couple had addressed in counseling.
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I'm not really paying much attention to all of this. The voters in Maine will make their own decisions, no doubt. 
He could be texting multiple women on the same day. And if he calls them all "honey" he doesn't have to keep their names straight.
That’s a lot of balls in the air to juggle, so to speak. 
Actually, I do feel pretty sorry for his wife of less than three years. This had to hurt.
locked and couldn’t reply. Hilarious…. 
the sexts.
Then that person told the media what his wife said.
Now they are going to call the “someone” a liar?
How does that make Platner’s wife look who brought this all up in the first place?
