The doors of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ office in Biddeford were recently painted with a vulgar message associating her with President Donald Trump.
The red-painted scrawl on Collins’ office doors comes as criticism of President Donald Trump and his complicated relationship with the Maine Republican have loomed large over the tight and increasingly heated race. Collins’ Democratic opponent, former state Senate President Troy Jackson, has criticized her for enabling Trump’s agenda.
Biddeford Police Chief JoAnne Fisk confirmed the department received a call on the incident at the senator’s office, but would not comment further. The office, which has been targeted multiple times by protesters after immigration enforcement officers shot and killed a man who was not a target of a warrant in July, had not seen previous acts of vandalism recently, she said.
“Vandalism is unacceptable,” Katie Brown, the senator’s chief of staff, said in a statement. “Senator Collins and her staff will not be intimidated. Our Biddeford constituent service office remains open, and we will continue serving the people of Maine.”
“There’s no place for this in Maine,” Jackson’s statement said. “Vandalism and intimidation are wrong, full stop. Senator Collins and her staff should be able to do their jobs without anyone defacing their office, and I condemn whoever did this.”
The senator, who votes overwhelmingly with Trump but has broken more often than other a Republicans in decisive votes, has also come under fire over a ProPublica story alleging a contracts-for-donations scheme during her 2020 race that the FBI was examining as late as 2024.
Based on the investigative outlet’s reporting, Jackson alleges Trump protected Collins by dismantling the agency’s anti-corruption teams, though sources told the New York Times FBI leadership didn’t buy the widespread pay-to-play accusations by a defense contractor and donor imprisoned for illegal donations and defrauding a pandemic relief program. Collins’ team denies any wrongdoing by the senator or her staff.
“Donald Trump owns her,” Jackson told reporters in Portland over the weekend, arguing that she hasn’t bucked the president as much as possible due to the pay-to-play claims in the ProPublica report.
Assistant Maine Senate Minority Leader Matt Harrington, R-Sanford, shared a photo of the office doors vandalized with the message “Trump Whore” on X Monday.
“What has the world come to?,” Harrington wrote. “This is disgusting, disappointing and it’s not the Maine I grew up in. Do better.”