Maine Elementary School Strips George Mitchell Honor As NJ School Considers Changing Name To Trump

A school in embattled Democrat former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell’s hometown has stripped his name from its marquee.

Once again, Mitchell’s connection to convicted pedophile sexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has chipped away at his once-vaunted status.

Meanwhile, while Mitchell’s name is now being pulled down from public institutions, Donald Trump’s is rising.

A suburban New Jersey school district is considering renaming one of its elementary schools after President Trump, evidence seasons political.

For the longest time, George Mitchell could do no wrong, especially after the former Senate majority leader as envoy brought peace to Northern Ireland.

Irish institutions adopted Mitchell as their saint, his name suddenly adorning public buildings and his bust even getting placed on a college campus.

But once the so-called Epstein files became public, connecting Mitchell to an underaged teenager in the former’s orbit, the Maine political icon’s world came crashing down.

First, two Irish institutions banished Mitchell’s name from their history and removed his bust from a campus.

Then and perhaps the lowest blow to the Waterville native, a scholarship organization in Portland, established from his legacy, pulled his name off its masthead.

To add insult to injury, state political leaders recently pulled Mitchell’s portrait from the walls of the State House.

The next banishing came when Waterville school officials decided this week to rip Mitchell’s name off their elementary school and go back to the original designation.

The Waterville Board of Education voted to rename the George J. Mitchell Elementary School. The school, named for him in 1995, will revert to its original Brookside Elementary School. 

“There’s nothing that is more important to us than the safety of our children,” said Waterville Public Schools Superintendent Peter Hallen.

Waterville parents lobbied to defenestrate Mitchell  after the ex-senator’s name appeared in documents related to the “Epstein files released by the U.S. Justice Department.

Mitchell hasn’t been charged with any crimes, though documents show he communicated with Epstein from 2010 to 2013.

In 2008, a jury convicted Epstein of soliciting for prostitution a girl who has claimed she had sex with Mitchell at Epstein’s urging.

Though Mitchell several times through paid mouthpieces has denied any such activity, he has never come out on his own and addressed a full-blown press conference to take questions from reporters.

Now as the cloistered 92-year-old disgraced Democrat public servant’s once-honorable life becomes just a faint memory, Republican Trump’s
star rises from his ashes.

The New Jersey school’s proposed renaming for Trump coincides with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July.

The Colts Neck, New Jersey elementary school would be the first in the country named for the 45th and 47th president.

Mitchell down, Trump up.

Fame is fleeting, especially when political power is the realm of currency.

Yesterday Mitchell was king. He was even given credit to helping limit the first George Bush to one term as president when he – Mitchell – was the top dog at the U.S. Senate.

Now his crown is corroded and Trump is the king, the flavor of the month in analogy.