At least one legal expert appeared stunned by Monday’s bombshell ABC News report that former Trump White House lawyer Jenna Ellis said to Fulton County prosecutors Dan Scavino had told her that Trump “is not going to leave under any circumstances,” despite being told he had lost the 2020 election.
“This is devastating in my view,” declared Brad Moss, the well-known national security attorney. “Trump never had any intention of complying with the election results. He was told repeatedly in the presence of a convicted co-defendant that he had lost. He ignored it and conspired with his lawyers to overthrow the election anyway.”
“Ellis,” ABC News adds, noting that her on-camera comments (video below) were made as part of a plea deal, “at one point was one of Trump’s most loyal lieutenants.”
She “frequently appeared on TV and in high-profile legislative sessions spreading false claims of election fraud following the 2020 election. In total, the Trump campaign paid her nearly $195,000 for her legal services between 2019 and 2021, according to Federal Election Commission records,”
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“In the video of prosecutors’ Oct. 23 proffer session with Ellis, she said that one of Trump’s top White House aides, Dan Scavino, allegedly told her ‘in an excited tone’ at a White House Christmas party weeks after the 2020 election that ‘the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances.’ ”
Ellis, ABC reports, told investigators that on December 19, 2020, Scavino “said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care.’ ”
“And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said ‘Well, the boss’, meaning President Trump — and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him — he said, ‘The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.’ ”
“And I said to him,” Ellis reportedly continued, ” ‘Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?’ and he said, ‘We don’t care.’ ”
Watch the video below or at this link.
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