Former Donald Trump attorney Jenna Ellis attempted to sell out the 45th President to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis despite claiming she would fight the RICO indictment the Georgia Democrat brought against her, raising almost $220,000 from MAGA conservatives to help her do so.
Ellis, now a Ron DeSantis booster, was included in RICO charges alongside Trump, Sidney Powell, and others related to alleged election interference. She raised $216,000 on GiveSendGo claiming she would “stand for the truth” but later tearfully pleaded guilty in exchange for reduced charges.
It now emerges she also flipped on the former president, claiming Trump official Dan Scavino said they planned on refusing to leave the White House on December 19th 2020, after she had told him the legal fight against the election results “was essentially over.”
EXCLUSIVE: ABC News has obtained video from Georgia prosecutors' interview with ex-Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, in which Ellis tells them she was personally informed by a top Trump adviser that Trump was "not going to leave" the White House — despite losing the 2020 election.… pic.twitter.com/J9c4bm9cbZ
— ABC News (@ABC) November 13, 2023
“[H]e said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave,'” Ellis told prosecutors in a so-called “proffer session”.
“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,'” she continued.
Ellis claims she told Scavino “it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?” and Scavino responded: “We don’t care.”
Trump did leave the White House of January 20th, however – and Trump lead counsel Steve Sadow insists that it “the only salient fact to this nonsense line of inquiry”.
“If this is the type of bogus, ridiculous ‘evidence’ DA Willis intends to rely upon, it is one more reason that this political, travesty of a case must be dismissed,” Sadow added.
