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Ellis, one of 18 Trump associates charged in Georgia election subversion case, says she āsimply canāt support himā again
Jenna Ellis ā the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 ā says she will not vote for him in the future because he is a āmalignant narcissistā who cannot admit mistakes.
āI simply canāt support him for elected office again,ā Ellis said. āWhy I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that heās never done anything wrong.ā
Ellis, 38, was speaking on her show on American Family Radio, a rightwing evangelical network run by the American Family Association, a non-profit that by its own description has been āon the frontlines of Americaās culture warā since 1977.
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Jenna Ellis ā the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 ā says she will not vote for him in the future because he is a āmalignant narcissistā who cannot admit mistakes.
Denying all wrongdoing and claiming political persecution, he also faces four federal counts related to election subversion; 40 federal counts related to retention of classified information; 34 state counts in New York over hush-money payments; and civil cases including a $250m lawsuit lodged by the New York attorney general over his business affairs and a defamation claim arising from a rape allegation a judge said was āsubstantially trueā.
Nonetheless, Trump leads polling regarding the 2024 Republican presidential primary by vast margins, in national and key state surveys.
Ellis is a former counsel for the Thomas More Society, a conservative Catholic group, whose claims to be a constitutional lawyer have been widely doubted.
Described by the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman as āa lawyer whom Trump sought out after seeing her television commentaryā, in 2020 Ellis rose from relative obscurity to become part of what she called an āelite strike force teamā working to overturn Trumpās defeat by Biden.
āAnd the total idolatry that Iām seeing from some of the supporters that are unwilling to put the constitution and the country and the conservative principles above their love for a star is really troubling.
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