Maine Democratic Senate hopeful’s Reddit posts allude to prostitution

As Maine’s presumptive Democratic Senate nominee faces criticism for insulting the armed forces on his now-deleted Reddit account, additional comments have emerged showing the combat veteran discussing prostitution overseas, including defending men who have cheated on their wives overseas.

Graham Platner made allusions to Thai and Latin American prostitution in two deleted Reddit posts from 2019 and 2012, respectively. In another article, dated April 2012, he defended men who cheated on their wives and girlfriends abroad, while responding to a news article about prostitution.

“You don’t have much experience with Latin American whores, do you?” Platner wrote in April 2012, responding to another user who expressed concerns that “prostitutes in Colombia are part of a giant sex trade and the women are effectively slaves.”

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The reviewed comments do not establish that Platner hired sex workers, and the account often uses crude or hyperbolic language.

The comments emerged as Platner’s deleted Reddit history has become a growing liability in his bid to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, particularly after posts in which he called the U.S. military “full of fat, lazy trash” and mocked Ted Daniels, a former Army infantryman and Purple Heart recipient who was wounded in Afghanistan. The records also showed Platner using slurs, disparaging rural white Americans, expressing support for political violence and making sexually explicit comments.

On the same day as his article on “Latin American prostitutes,” Platner published an article defending men who had cheated on their loved ones abroad.

“I heard this silly sentiment expressed within the confines of [sic] military. “If you can’t stay true to your wife, how can you stay true to your comrades?,” Platner wrote, in response to an article about Secret Service agents using prostitutes. “Well, I have a lot of good friends who lied and cheated with women, and yet took direct shots at tough men in their jobs.”

“I find it a sentiment reserved for moral relativists who need something to cry about, intelligent people realizing that they are not mutually exclusive,” he added.

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Years later, Platner continued his discussion of prostitution on Reddit.

“And unfortunately, the Afghan tax screwed everyone on the 330 game,” Platner wrote in 2019. “Spend your leave fucking prostitutes in Thailand instead of getting fucked by your wife at home, and you might sell it to avoid federal income tax.”

He was likely referring to a tax strategy used by some government contractors working overseas, whereby if they spent more than 330 days outside the United States, they could avoid paying federal income tax.

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Maine Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner is facing new criticism over his deleted Reddit history. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The Platner campaign did not respond to a request for comment when contacted by Fox News Digital on Friday.

The messages were posted by the Reddit account “P-Hustle,” which Platner acknowledges is his. Comments from this account were compiled into a searchable database by the Maine Monitor.

“Graham Platner’s moral depravity alarmed Maine voters, forcing Democrats to distance themselves from him and his scandals,” National Republican Senatorial Committee press secretary Bernadette Breslin told Fox News Digital.

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The Senate candidate attributed his online behavior to psychological trauma resulting from his combat deployments as well as the “crude humor” and “offensive language” he became accustomed to while serving as a Marine.

“I’m sorry for that. Just know that it doesn’t reflect who I am at all,” Platner said of his comments on Reddit in October. “I don’t want you to judge me on the stupidest thing I’ve ever written on the internet. I’d rather people be able to judge me on the person I am today.”