Graham Platner Used The Same App To Meet His Alleged Victim, Reconnect With His Wife

Maine Senate candidate credibly accused of criminal acts in 2021

Graham Platner with Amy Gertner

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner allegedly raped a woman. According to Politico, Jenny Racicot says Platner “forced her to have sex with him” in 2021 “despite her repeated objections”, i.e. rape.

Racicot tells Politico that she met Platner on the dating app Bumble in 2019 and maintained an occasional sexual relationship with him for two years. Platner reconnected with his wife Amy Gertner through the same Bumble app in 2023.

In previous reporting, Racicot has said she recognized Platner’s Totenkopf tattoo. Racicot texted friends referring to it as a “Nazi tattoo” in 2025.

When she asked him about it, Platner responded with a “bravado sob story” about keeping the tattoo as a reminder that “the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas”.

In retrospect, his explanations seemed tailored to her leftist politics, Racicot suggested. Indeed, Graham Platner has told different stories about his tattoo to different women in order to get laid.

Lindsay Fifield, a Republican campaign operative that Platner dated from 2012-2015, says that Platner called his tattoo “my Totenkopf” and joked about its Nazi connection.

Fifield says Platner explained that he and his Marine unit chose the design because “they were like a death unit, they were killers”, deliberately drawing a parallel to the Nazi SS. Platner has denied knowing what the symbol represented.

Racicot called Fifield’s account of Platner “a version of him that I had experiences with”, adding that “this person does not respect women.” Democrats dismissed the earlier reporting because of Fifield’s politics.

“I know that he is capable of putting his hands on women,” Racicot now tells Politico. “So I don’t believe that to be the truth.”

Racicot alluded to Platner’s alleged rape in the earlier coverage, saying only that she had ended the relationship after a “reckless” and “unsettling” drunken visit. She says she changed her mind after The New York Times glossed over her story in their coverage so that Democrats could frame Fifield as a political hit.

Unlike Fifield, Racicot shares generally the same political views as Platner. She’s a Democrat. She’s not a supporter of Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent.

Unlike Christine Blasey Ford, Fifield and Racicot have proof they actually met the man they accuse.

Racicot has proof she shared the accusations with other people before she went public, and people who already considered her a victim of Graham Platner’s abuse before we heard her story.

All three of these evidentiary elements were missing from the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.

Platner allegedly entered Racicot’s home “uninvited”, indeed she had told him to stay away, that she was not in the mood for a visit.

Racicot says she was sexually assaulted and that Platner ejaculated inside of her without permission. This is a description of the criminal act of rape.

Platner and his campaign have denied the Politico story. Likewise, Fifield alleged that Platner was physically aggressive, grabby, and rough. Platner and campaign denied that story, too.

Racicot is not pressing charges, nor has she filed a civil action. However, Democrats deserve to know what they are getting into. Platner was in Washington, DC last month to assure Democratic Senators that no further scandals would emerge. Evidently, Platner lied to them. The one thing he seems to be good at is looking people in the eye while he lies to them.

Democrats nationalized the Platner campaign to appeal to the new, hip socialist youth vote. Platner did not emerge from the Maine Democratic Party establishment of Janet Mills. He was an organizer with the Maine Progressive Alliance who got the attention of Bernie Sanders and Morris Katz, and then the endorsements of unions.

Put another way, Platner’s candidacy was always a project. Now Democrats have a deadline of Sunday, 12 July, to replace their project with another candidate. They have to wonder what else he has not told them about himself, and there might be even more devastating allegations ahead.

We have preliminary evidence that Graham Platner may have committed actual crimes that lie well within the 20-year statute of limitations in Maine for such charges. While it is unlikely this new allegation will lead to a courtroom, it undermines the story of a redemption arc for Platner.

He did not emerge from a dark phase to become a good man in just three years while using the same dating apps. Graham Platner remained the same man. He is still the same person that Jenny Racicot knew.