Since their famous face-off in the White House, when President Trump reacted to Maine’s Governor Mills’ bizarre threats, willingness to sacrifice girls’ civil rights for her ego, a lot has happened.
The arrogant, un-Maine, wildly woke governor and her circle of hoary henchmen – and henchwomen – filed nine lawsuits against Trump. They are now under investigation for violation of civil rights, perhaps more. Dozens of federal funding streams are frozen, as Mills rakes in anti-Trump money.
Three questions.
One: Is any of Governor Mills’ belligerence and theater – supported by her Democrat legislative majority – helping the people of Maine? Definitely not.
Mainers are in genuine pain. We suffer the highest fentanyl overdoses in history, fully 10,000 last year, 40 to 70 Mainers dying monthly. Mills does not care. Her phony AG meantime files lawsuits against oil companies in California with taxpayer earnings, $2.1 billion in abuse unanswered.
Mills pushed the biggest budget in state history, double a decade ago, taxes out of control – way beyond anything Mainers have ever seen, highest property taxes in America, near top tax burden, devastating seniors’ ability to stay in their homes, preventing young Mainers from having a home.
Maine’s schools? An administrative, overcontrolled, underperforming mass of bureaucratic mandates, all of which should be removed. Teachers are underpaid, lowest morale, leaving kids with 49th overall performance, after being number one in the 1990s. Democrats should hang their heads.
No, Governor Mills showcasing anti-Trump arrogance does nothing for Mainers, except hurt us all. National headlines for nothing, to distract from a doubled tax burden in a state with an average income of $42,000, plus her $450 million shortfall, zero coverage for seniors’ MaineCare in year two.
This is a Democrat-made disaster, a roadshow for fundraising, a weird legacy at the expense of average people. Mills is on a disgusting joyride, with no grasp of how regular people live, hurt, and want relief.
Two: Is Mills winning legally, with this settlement of her “mini-suit” against Agriculture? Hardly.
Having put $360 million in federal dollars for Maine’s schools at risk, like southern segregationist governors in the 1960s who tried to strip blacks of civil rights in violation of Title 6, Mills aims to strip Maine girls of civil rights under Title 9. Bluntly, she does not care.
Her behavior is worse than odd, it is deceitful, dishonest, and disgusting. All her life, she gained from Title 9’s protection of biological girls and women, now pretends Title 9 has no meaning, that 50 years of Supreme Court cases are unimportant, and federal rulings like Tennessee v. Cardona are of no matter. She hates Trump so much that she will hang Maine’s girls out to dry, indulging her inner witch.
Is she winning? She says so, is that true? No. She has caused the Trump Justice Department to enforce civil rights law against her, denying Mainers needed funds. Her reckless, arrogant actions and posturing mean almost $360 million is being held back still, until she complies with federal law.
What about the settlement with Agriculture? It is a nothingburger, 3 million dollars. Trump’s team likely wanted the suit gone, had unintentionally blocked access to food funds, even though assured that they would be available. They had already assured student nutrition programs would not be held up, but administratively, they got blocked. Maine sued, got an injunction, likely begged for a settlement, and simply got it. No precedent set, no big win – that is all smoke and mirrors.
The settlement means nothing to Trump. Put differently, who needed that suit settled now – Trump or Maine? Maine, of course. Trump has far bigger fish to fry.
Look broader. Justice holds $360 million from Mills – until she abides by civil rights for girls, just as past presidents threatened southern governors if they did not abide civil rights of blacks.
Incredibly, Mills and her out-of-touch AG, Secretary of State, and Progressive majority refuse to abide by standing law, a collection of precedents overwhelmingly favoring Trump, half a century long.
What is she doing, other than being an ass? Hard to know, pushing an egotistical quarrel with Trump and the 2024 elections, with a majority wanting laws enforced fairly, no lawfare, wokeness, and abuse.
Maybe she thinks future lawsuits will vindicate her illegal position, that hurting Maine girls is worth the jousting with Trump, the way southern Democrats thought they could keep hurting blacks. But it will not hold up, and her anti-Trump obsession is very much damaging Maine, hurting Mainers.
Three: Where does all this lead? She and her Progressive henchmen and henchwomen will be flushed from office in 2026. Mainers are getting sick of it. This is so disgusting that average people will no longer tolerate it, and so watch the horizon. This is why I said enough, I am running for Governor.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC. Robert Charles has also just released an uplifting new book, “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024).
Well RBC, the actions you describe by Mills and the Democrat majority in Maine are literally a carbon copy of how every other Democrat controlled state runs today. Same exact socialist playbook, that is used around the world by One World Order authoritarian types.
You say the people of Maine are fed up and want a change for the better. Let’s hope that’s true of the voting majority in your state and not just wishful thinking. Socialism / Marxism and the American ideals outlined in the Constitution of the United States of America cannot co-exist, because they offer diametrically opposite ideals for governance and personal freedoms and liberties. One or the other has to ultimately win out. The alternative is we will be stuck in an endless cycle of simply trying to rebuild what the Left has systematically destroyed after each time they have gained any political power.
Another fine and well constructed article.
The justification and enhancement of perversions is the last swing and miss on the foul ball struck off left.
The statist left has absolutely nothing they can do to eliminate the Trump tornado.
The statist controlled activist legal gestapo are all about to reap the whirlwind like Chuckie Shummer threatened.
President Trump’s systematic progress of his every promise, has completely, utterly neutralized everything of the left’s statist worldviews.
Even with a sycophant media the contemporary democrat party is incapable of being nothing but angry trolls.
The left has devolved into a leaderless pity party of one.
The left is nothing but a solitary cult that occupies little but a fallen fringe that throws out vile hateful rhetoric seasoned always by perversity and a dash of filthy language.
It’s time to make mental institutions Great Again.
All that is needed for evil to prosper that good men do nothing. That is clearly what has happened in Maine.And around the country and around the world. Come on man and ladies, too It is past time to stand up and do something.
Run RBC, Ruuuuunnn!!!!!
(And win)
I wish you the best in your run for governor, Robert but why isn’t there a recall election going on now?
Assuming that Mr. Charles is serious about running for Maine’s Governor in 2026 I wish him all the luck in the world. Ms. Mills is a disgrace!!
“Indulging her inner witch” is a funny picture, not far from true and possibly even offensive to “regular” witches. Although both are in direct and serious opposition to the God of creation. Hatred is very dangerous causing utter blindness of heart. I hope the people of Maine won’t forget her evil behavior in 2026, no matter how the left spins it just before the election.
Here’s a fourth question, sir… why is there no recall election on this loony creature??
What’s the matter with the idiot voters in Maine. Why haven’t they recalled her?
Other commenters have said it all. I’m in WA state, which is just as bad. Ever higher taxes, more regulation, and still we (not me) elect democrats, who spend us into oblivion.
A pity for voters to put anyone like her in office. Americans suffer because of these insane ideologies which are so prevalent in our society.
Very well put.
I really worry about the seniors, younger adults just starting their lives, and veterans.
Those challenged and vulnerable.
I ask these Democrat, liberal individuals? What about them.
Love your campaign video. We face the same problems in Oregon. Yet in the last election the state once again achieved a Democrat supermajority and are now taking advantage by finding creative new ways to raise taxes, passing ever more regulations on land and water that are driving farmers and other rural landowners out, and resisting Trump. What does it take?
Governor Mills is an enemy of America and to the beliefs of the true American people, not the Socialist, Marxist, Communist, Muslim/Hamas, etc Democratic Party! Democrats only want to destroy America and the American people!
Women like her vote fort someone like her, should it be doable and they could have an autonomous little state only for the likes of them, how long would it function without a major fight even a war?
In addition she has to be the ugliest governor of all
Maine voters are as stupid as California voters.
Absolutely agree with this article, as would a great majority of other Mainers if they had the chance to protest what Mills is doing to us in Maine. Not fair that her arrogant stance is hurting so many of us!.
Remember, she is playing with tax payer dollars so she doesn’t care about the expenses.
Amen sir Godspeed! ????
Good for you Charles! Gid bless ya!
I wish AMAC would refrain from putting pictures if liberals at the head of their articles. The picture of mills makes me want to vomit.
May God bless you in your efforts to bring Maine back!
Governor Mills is proof for the need to have Laws in place for the removal of one’s questionable Mental capacity when transcending reasonable logic and Moral Values.Her sense of Right vs Wrong has become blurred from a Narcissistic Attitude.