Hyper-partisan Traitor: Maine's Secretary of State visited White House twice, expressed disdain for Donald Trump

AUGUSTA, ME - The unhinged Maine Secretary of State, who is attempting to disqualify former President Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot using a bizarre interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, has a bit of explaining to do, as it’s been revealed she met with Joe Biden twice last year at the White House. 

Fox News and other outlets report Shenna Bellows, an unelected (by Maine residents) partisan, went to the White House on two separate occasions last year–once in March and again in June. In addition, Bellows at one time called the Electoral College a “relic of white supremacy.” 

According to White House visitor logs, Bellows attended a Women’s History Month event on March 22, where she met with Biden and took a photo with him. 

Bellows posted the picture on social media and called it an “amazing experience” to meet Biden. 

“Birthday jaunt to DC for a Women’s History Month event at the White House yesterday and walking around today,” she posted on Facebook at the time, according to the Washington Free Beacon. 

In addition to the Facebook post, her trip to the White House was also promoted by the Maine Secretary of State’s office in a press release last year, where she said it was “an honor to join” Biden, Kamala Harris, and other female leaders from across the country. It wasn’t reported if Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who cannot define what a woman is, attended the event. 

“It was an honor to join President Biden, Vice President Harris, and amazing female leaders from around the country to celebrate Women’s History Monthy at the White House yesterday,” Bellows wrote at the time. “I hope to someday see the last of the ‘firsts’ like myself, but as we continue to see these groundbreaking leaders in new positions of power, I look forward to celebrating them as part of our nation’s history.” 

On June 6, 2023, Bellows made a second trip to the White House, where she joined more than a dozen others to meet with Justin Vail, a special assistant to Biden. That trip was organized by a group called Issue One Reform, which describes itself as “the leading cross-partisan political reform group” in D.C. that works to “unite Republicans, Democrats, and independents in the movement to fix our broken political system and build an inclusive democracy that works for everyone.” 

Bellows responded to an X post from Dustin Czarny, the Onondaga County (NY) elections commissioner and the Democratic Caucus chair of the New York State Elections Commissioner Association, writing, “Yes! That was such a powerful part of our trip to DC. Democrats, Republicans, and nonpartisan elections officials united on issues of protecting election workers and finding critical election infrastructure.” 

Bellows previously served in the Maine State Senate for four years and has been Secretary of State since 2021. In Maine, the Secretary of State is not elected by the voters but rather by the state legislature. 

After taking office, Bellows wrote an op-ed for the Democracy Docket, a left-wing outlet. In the piece titled “Voting Rights for Our Neighbors Matter As Much as Our Own,” Bellows bragged about her efforts to increase voting accessibility and claimed she “was truly frightened for our democracy” as her reason for seeking the position. That followed the 2020 presidential election, where there were more than a few “questionable” issues surrounding the election. 

She also slammed the Electoral College at that time, calling it a “relic of white supremacy” that she said doesn’t fairly represent voters. 

In her bizarre ruling banning Trump from the 2024 primary ballot, Bellows cited an obscure portion of the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which bars people who have “engaged in insurrection” from running for elected office without a two-thirds vote from Congress. 

That clause was included in the 14th to prevent former Confederate soldiers from holding government or military positions after the Civil War. The problem is the former president has never been charged with, let alone convicted of, insurrection or sedition. That matters not to partisan hacks like Bellows, who followed the lead of the unhinged Colorado Supreme Court in likewise disqualifying the former president from the ballot. 

It is expected that, as happened in Colorado, a challenge will be made to the ruling, and it will likely end up in the Supreme Court. 

Bellows has made no secret of her love for Biden and Harris and her hatred of Trump. 

In October 2020, she posted on “X” that she was “excited to vote for Biden and Harris.” Earlier, she asked if the “obsession” with Hillary Clinton was because people “just can’t deal [with] the magnitude of fears of what Trump presidency brings.” 

Criticism of Bellows's decision has been bipartisan, with Rep. Jared Golden, a Maine Democratic House member, panning the decision. 

“I voted to impeach Donald Trump for his role in the January 6th insurrection. I do not believe he should be reelected as President of the United States,” Golden said last week. “However, we are a nation of laws, therefore, until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot.” 

In addition to Golden, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, also questioned Bellows for removing Trump from the ballot, as did Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who voted to impeach Trump the second go-around. 

Bellows, who has no law degree, defended her position on CNN Friday. 

“I reviewed Section Three of the 14th Amendment very carefully and determined that Section Three of the 14th Amendment does not say ‘conviction,’ it says ‘engage,’ Bellows reasoned. 

“And let’s go back and keep in mind that the events of January 6, 2021, were unprecedented and tragic,” she continued. “This was an attack, not only on the Capitol and the government officials, the former vice president members of Congress, but an attack on the rule of law.”

“And the weight of evidence that I reviewed indicated that it was, in fact, an insurrection,” Bellows added. “And Mr. Trump engaged in that insurrection under Section Three of the 14th Amendment.” 

Among the “evidence” Bellows reviewed were YouTube clips and “other things that would never pass the bar in normal court,” Newsweek reported a former assistant U.S. Attorney as saying.  

On CNN, former assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig told CNN’s John Berman that Bellows’s evidence would never be allowed in a “normal court.” 

Honig said Bellows “based her ruling on a lot of documents, but also YouTube clips, news reports, things that would never pass the bar in normal court. She’s not a lawyer, by the way. It’s a smartly written decision, clearly consulted with lawyers, but this is an unelected–she’s chosen by the state legislature. Chosen, elected by the legislature, but not democratically elected.” 

Honig said he believes “the Supreme Court is going to take this case. I think tonight’s ruling makes it even more likely.” That was in reference to the Michigan Supreme Court, which denied a move in that state to remove Trump from the ballot.