Ellis, one of 18 Trump associates charged in Georgia election subversion case, says she ā€˜simply canā€™t 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 ā€œmalignant narcissistā€ who cannot admit mistakes.

ā€œI simply canā€™t support him for elected office again,ā€ Ellis said. ā€œWhy I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that heā€™s 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 ā€œon the frontlines of Americaā€™s 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 ā€œmalignant 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 ā€œsubstantially 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 ā€œa 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 ā€œelite strike force teamā€ working to overturn Trumpā€™s defeat by Biden.

    ā€œAnd the total idolatry that Iā€™m 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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