Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he is standing by Graham Platner in the wake of media reports that the Maine Senate candidate previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women while he was married.
Platner, a Democrat, posted a video over the weekend taken by his wife, Amy Gertner, who reportedly told his campaign of the text messages last year. In the video, Gertner decried coverage of the issue as “gossip” and said “being married is hard.”
Sanders, a critical early backer of Platner, told The Associated Press on Monday that he still supports the oyster farmer and combat veteran, who hopes to unseat veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
Yah… The timing of this is suspicious, stuff like this usually comes out of the woodwork almost immediatly (because you can just search through someones social media and find all sorts of dumb shit), if someone is holding onto it then they either made it up or witheld the info for timing/news cycle reasons, either case reduces the credibility of the “gossip”.
Also, who cares, half the liches on capitol hill that need to remove were on Epstine Island… The bar for family values and puritanical whohash has been on the floor since the Clinton administration.