Donald Trump’s attorney thinks voters should be shielded from knowing about the legal problems facing the former president.
Christina Bobb said on Newsmax that officials spreading “propaganda” about Trump criminal cases — he’s facing 91 charges in four jurisdictions — is tantamount to election interference.
Bobb was specifically talking about Shenna Bellows, Maine’s secretary of state who last week became the second official to rule Trump should be disqualified from the ballot under the Constitution’s 14th amendment.
It states that anybody who takes part in an insurrection against the U.S. is ineligible from holding public office. A similar ruling was made earlier last month in Colorado.
“This narrative that Trump isn’t going to be eligible, trying to instill fear in the voters that oh, maybe I shouldn’t vote for him… maybe I shouldn’t follow him because he won’t be on the ballot,” Bobb said.
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“They’re trying to discourage people from supporting Donald Trump, thinking he’s got all these legal problems. That is election interference and she needs to be held accountable for it.”
Bobb said Bellows should be impeached for her decision.
“I would encourage the attorney general or the district attorneys in Maine to take a closer look at this and possibly investigate [Ms Bellows] for abuse of authority, abuse of power and election interference because this, no doubtedly, is election interference,” she told Newsmax. The interview was reported by The Independent.
“Even if she’s overruled, even if the likely outcome — which is that Trump will be on the ballot — even if that happens, she is interfering with the election by putting out all of this propaganda.”
