December 1, 2020: Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis once Told the Truth

 

December 1, 2020: Lame Duck Don has fifty days left to squander in office. Making the most of his time, the White House calendar for today reads: “The President has no public events scheduled.” 

A quick check shows that’s the sixteenth day since the election, where Trump has remained (essentially) in hiding.

 

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THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN continues to wage a losing battle on multiple legal fronts in an effort to overturn election results.

 

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“I’m fearful for the republic right now.” 

Jordan Harbinger, conservative podcast host, talking about Trump

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Given the current situation, Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova tells a radio host that sprinkling the tree of liberty with a little gore might be a excellent idea. That situation being: Trump losing the vote in six critical swing states. 

Since Christopher Krebs, the former head of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity unit, keeps insisting the election was one of the most secure in U.S. history, diGenova has a novel idea. “That guy is a Class-A moron,” he tells his host. “He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.” 

Krebs was appointed by Donald Trump – and then fired by Donald Trump when he insisted, based on all the evidence his cybersecurity unit could find, that the November election was not, in fact, rigged.

Drawn and quartered.

 

We already knew that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who the president called an “enemy of the people” for upholding Georgia vote returns, had faced death threats, as had his wife. 

So diGenova’s suggestion probably didn’t help.

 

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SINCE THIS BLOGGER IS RETIRED, and also recovering from COVID-19, which precludes getting most yard work done, he has plenty of time to study the story of the Trump campaign and its efforts to overturn the vote. One of Trump’s key lawyers in this fight is Jenna Ellis. 

A tip from a friend told me it would be fun to turn back time to 2016, when Trump was just a lame-assed candidate running for president, and find out what Ellis thought about her current boss back then. 

Once again, CNN did what any news network could have done – and this blogger did – to get the story straight. They went to Ellis’s old social media posts and they (and I) replayed old radio appearances from February 2016. Even People magazine did due diligence in this regard.  

 

In one old Twitter post, from March 2016, it was discovered that Ms. Ellis had referred to Candidate Trump as an “unethical, corrupt, lying, criminal, dirtbag.” 

In another post she wrote, “I could spend a full-time job just responding to the ridiculously illogical, inconsistent, and blatantly stupid arguments supporting Trump. But here’s the thing: his supporters DON’T CARE about facts or logic. They aren’t seeking truth.” 

In a radio interview from that period, Ellis talked about the candidate and warned, “his crazy is coming out.” Her host, Jordan Harbinger, agreed. “I’m fearful for the republic right now,” he said. Ellis wondered, if Trump won the Republican nomination, how “we’re going to preserve the republic.”

 

It’s a conservative talk show. So, Harbinger mentions two dictator wannabes. Obama, of course, is one. 

Trump is the other. 

“This guy can’t take criticism,” the host says of Candidate Donald. Ellis agrees. She calls Trump a “typical bully” (go to around the 19:30 mark on the tape to hear). The host plays a recording of the candidate at one of his rallies, threatening to make it easier to sue newspapers for libel if elected. “That is about one of the scariest things, and you know what’s even scarier than what he said?” Harbinger asks. 

“Is there something that’s scarier than that?” Ellis interjects. 

Yes, he says, “The crowd’s reaction.” 

Ellis agrees. 

“That’s the sound of liberty dying,” Harbinger posits. “It is,” Ellis agrees. 

“That’s the sound of a dictator taking over,” he says.

 

Ellis warns that people don’t understand that “this is going against the First Amendment right to free speech, right to freedom of the press, that the government doesn’t give us that right, it’s an unalienable right.” 

Harbinger asks Ellis, in a joking reference to Trump, “Why do you hate the Supreme Leader?” 

“I still value my First Amendment rights,” she replies. 

 

“He wants to go against the Constitution.” 

Just before the 28:00 minute mark, Harbinger wonders if Trump – should he be elected – can “work within the confines of the Constitution?” 

“I don’t think he wants to,” Ellis replies. She doesn’t think Trump is stupid. She admits he has run a strong campaign. But “he wants to go against the Constitution.” 

Ellis  explains that as a lawyer, her value is that she can explain to clients, predict, what will happen if they go to court. She says if she went before a judge “that was as insane as Trump” it would be impossible to know what the outcome would be. Around the 37:00 minute mark, she warns that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, the only GOP candidates left who still had a viable chance to stop Trump, really needed to focus on “how unpredictable and insane this guy is.” 

Four years later, here we are. 

Ellis is fighting to win the insane guy and the guy she called a threat to the First Amendment and the Constitution a second term. 

Truly insane. 

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“Hung for treason.” 

DOWN IN GEORGIA, Gabriel Sterling, a top election official under Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, pleads for Trump to chill his fiery rhetoric. “Someone’s going to get hurt, someone’s going to get shot, someone’s going to get killed,” Sterling warns. “It’s not right.”

 

He cites a Twitter thread that accused a young technician working on the Georgia recount of altering votes. This led to his identity being released online and calls for him to be “hung for treason.”

 

Sterling explains that the young tech was “transferring a report on batches of votes from an EMS to a county computer so he could read it.” 

“His family is getting harassed now. There’s a noose out there with his name on it. And it's not right,” he continues. “I’ve got police protection outside my house. Fine. You know, I took a higher-profile job. I get it, the secretary [Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger] ran for office; his wife knew that, too. This kid took a job. He just took a job, and it’s just wrong.”

 

“It has to stop,” Sterling adds. “Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language. Senators [Loeffler and Perdue], you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step up. And if you take a position of leadership, show some.”

 

Tuesday afternoon, NPR reports,

 

police were called to a Gwinnett County location where a man who was live-streaming video followed workers he believed were secretly transporting voting machines in violation of a court order. In the video, an officer explained that boxes were full of office phones and told the man he was trespassing.

 

(If a young technician got killed, Trump wouldn’t care a bit.)

 

Meanwhile, unproven allegations that Dominion Voting Systems machines were rigged against the Orange God, lead to crazy right-wing types putting a $1,000,000 bounty on the head of Dr. Eric Coomer, security director for the company. 

(Trump, the “law and order” president, wouldn’t care if he got murdered, too.) 

 

POSTSCRIPT: We know Ellis has been having a hard time telling the difference between rivers and trees (see: 11/29/20), and deducing the difference between Teddy Roosevelt and any other president, including Donald J. Trump. 

Recently she posted this: 

 

It wasn’t long before numerous experts informed her that no one had ever heard this Teddy quote before. 

Ms. Ellis defended her use of the fake quote, insisting, “I posted it because the ifea [sic] is true, whether or not he said it!” 

So, allow me to post my own fake quote. It’s from Abraham Lincoln. “Four score and some other bunch of years ago, we brought forth a megalomaniac as our president. And his name was Trump. With malice for everyone except his base, he proved to be a really terrible president.” 

The “ifea” is true, whether or not Mr. Lincoln ever said it. 

 

FAKE FUN FACT: Just when you can’t imagine that President Trump can sink any lower, he manages again. This time, he claims that an emergency hospital ward, set up in Reno, Nevada, to treat an overflow of COVID-19 patients, is “fake” and only meant to make him look bad. 

“Fake election results in Nevada, also!” Trump tweets, along with a ward filled with beds, but no patients. 

(The next day, the doctor in the picture Trump shared, to “prove” the overflow ward was fake explains that it would have been a violation of HIPAA and patient privacy laws to show patients. Which you might think some White House aide, or even Dr. Scott Atlas (see: 12/2/200, could have told him. 

Dr. Jacob Keeperman, the doctor in question, doesn’t exactly say it, but you know he’s thinking it: Trump is a soulless douche bag. CDC reports that 2,465 Americans die from the coronavirus on December 1.