AUGUSTA, Maine — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team asked a judge this week to consider Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ relationships with two of the former elected officials who successfully challenged Trump’s eligibility here.
But Trump’s motion, dated Monday and posted online Wednesday, is shoddy, citing dated information from LinkedIn and Wikipedia along with tax returns and news reports to falsely claim Bellows and former Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling worked at a nonprofit at the same time.
In reality, Bellows replaced Strimling in late 2015 as executive director of LearningWorks, a nonprofit offering education programs for children and adults in southern Maine. She served in that interim role until 2016, when she was elected to the Maine Senate.
A December 2015 statement from the LearningWorks board announced Bellows as the interim executive director and said Strimling, a progressive Democrat who stepped down at that time to become Portland’s mayor, left “a lasting legacy” at the nonprofit.
The filing marked a stark, 11th-hour escalation of the Trump team’s attacks on Bellows after her Dec. 28 ruling that Trump was ineligible for the Republican primary ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy will rule by next week on Trump’s appeal of the decision.
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