The Maine Democrat who moved to boot former President Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot visited the White House twice in the past year — meeting President Joe Biden during one jaunt — and reportedly once referred to the Electoral College as a “relic of white supremacy.”
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows visited the White House in March and again in June, visitor logs show.
On March 22, she attended a Women’s History Month event and took a photo with a smiling Biden, putting his left hand and on her shoulder and clutching one of her hands with his right.
She posted it on Instagram a day later, saying “Birthday jaunt to DC for a Women’s History Month event at the White House yesterday and walking around today.”
She boasted it was an “honor” meeting Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other “female leaders” at the gathering in press release put out by her office.
Bellows also visited the White House June 6, to meet with Justin Vail, a special assistant to Biden, Fox News reported .
In June 2021, Bellows, a former state Senator in Maine, wrote an op-ed piece for the lefty platform Democracy Docket claiming she decided to run for secretary of state because she “was truly frightened for our democracy” following the 2020 presidential election.
She also took a shot at the Electoral College that helped get Trump elected in 2016, claiming “voting rights for our neighbors matter as much as our own, especially when the relic of white supremacy that is the Electoral College remains in place.”
In her ruling to kick Trump off the state ballot, she cited an “insurrection” clause in the 14th Amendment and his actions leading up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump’s advisors plan to legally challenge the Maine ruling and an earlier one in Colorado also kicking him off that state’s ballot, but the ex-president is concerned that some conservative judges on the Supreme Court may rule against him, the New York Times reported.
Meanwhile, Maine State Police are reportedly investigating a “swatting” call falsely claiming a man broke into Bellows’ home Friday night.
Bellows posted on Facebook Saturday and that she and her family are “safe,” but added her office staff have been dealing with “non-stop threatening communications” since her anti-Trump decision.
“This behavior is unacceptable,” she wrote.
