Former Trump lawyer REACTS to being indicted alongside Trump and other alleged 'co-conspirators'
Jenna Ellis is a conservative lawyer who served on Donald Trump’s legal team during his time in the White House.
She is also one of the “co-conspirators” who’s been indicted alongside Trump in Georgia.
“What Georgia is saying to those of us who are targeted by this indictment is that if you dare to represent as a lawyer our political opponent, then you deserve to go to jail, you deserve to have your livelihood taken away, you deserve to have your reputation trashed,” she tells Steve Deace.
“Later this week I will actually have to go and surrender to Fulton County Jail and literally become a political prisoner and get arrested because I dared to stand up for a client and because I dare to speak truth,” she continues.
Although Ellis did not foresee herself being indicted, her faith in God remains unshakable.
“This is what God has for me to walk through,” she tells Steve, adding, “I know that people will be watching me as a Christian, and I want to respond rightly.”
“Did you have difficulty acquiring competent counsel that was willing to take on the very system that then may later try to do to them exactly what they're now trying to do to you?” asks Steve.
“I mean, I had people quote to me up to one million dollars just as a retainer fee because this is so high-profile – it's Trump-related,” says Ellis, “and you know, necessarily people have to, unfortunately, take that into consideration of whether representing a lawyer who represented Donald Trump would then be attacked for their own position.”
Unfortunately, that’s not where Ellis’ struggles end. She says some Trump supporters are hoping for her defeat in the upcoming trial simply because she “[dares] to say good things about Governor DeSantis” on occasion.
“I would never want to see the system being weaponized against someone who … represented legally Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden or even Hunter Biden,” she tells Steve.
“Every single person, no matter if you're Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden – I don't care who you are; you deserve competent counsel … that’s the constitutional system in America,” Ellis says.
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Putin prosecutes Navalny– just as Joe Biden is attempting with Trump
Alexei Navalny has long been the face of Russian opposition to President Vladimir Putin, and now he’s behind bars. The 47-year-old blogger survived poisoning with a nerve agent before being thrown in prison for “extremist” activities.
Mark Levin believes that the way Donald Trump is being treated isn’t much different from Putin’s treatment of Navalny.
“Alexei Navalny was a very wealthy man. Self-made. Not one of these phony oligarchs. And he believed in democracy, and the free press, and he would rally people to these causes,” Levin explains.
Nalvany’s sentence has been extended to 19 years.
“They went in front of a judge appointed by, well, Putin. Much like the judge in the Washington, D.C., case was appointed by Obama,” Levin notes.
“I want to tell you what it sounds like to me, and the parallel between what Biden and Putin have done to their leading political opponent. The use of the state, the use of prosecutors, the use of friendly judges, the use of long sentences, for the threat of long sentences,” Levin says, alleging that Putin and Biden are treating political opposition similarly.
“Biden’s doing exactly the same thing to Trump,” he adds.
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ABC CENSORS Trump's speech: What are they afraid of?
Donald Trump's speech from Mar-a-Lago was broadcast nationwide, but one network in particular decided to blur out Trump’s podium, which gave the audience a number to text so they could receive official campaign notifications.
On "The News & Why It Matters," Alex Stein had this to say: “It just shows me that the news is obviously fake. I mean, they can’t even show you the real live shot, they actually have to edit it. It’s literally George Orwell’s '1894,' where they can just change the history.”
“This is the wildest thing I’ve ever seen,” said Sara Gonzales.
However, the act of blurring the podium likely attracted more attention than it would have received otherwise.
Another contributor commented, “I think [ABC is purposely attracting attention is] because they need Trump to be [popular]. Trump’s the villain, right? He’s a super villain to them, so they need the guy.”
“There is an alternative,” Gonzales chimed in. “They could just be that stupid.”
Lest anyone think that Donald Trump receives equal treatment in the eyes of the mainstream media, Gonzales displayed a picture of Joe Biden’s noticeably readable podium from his campaign in 2020.
“Yeah, but if you text that it just signs you up for Ben and Jerry’s flavor of the month club,” a commentator quipped.
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Gray: Trump could face 136 years in prison
Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that could land him 136 years in prison. The former president would be 212 years old when he got out, if he was found guilty on all accounts.
However, Pat Gray and his co-hosts don’t see that happening.
“His biggest crime is that he’s Donald Trump,” Jeffy says.
Which is exactly what American attorney Jonathan Turley said.
“The Bragg prosecution is the denial of the core legal principle of blind justice. This expensive, drawn-out effort would not have occurred for anyone other than Donald Trump. It is not just selective prosecution, it is exclusive prosecution for Trump and Trump alone.”
Gray agrees, saying, “There is no actual crime. You can pay people to be quiet. You can, it’s legal.”
Despite the cheers from the left over Trump’s arraignment, the media attention the 34 cases brought against Trump is bringing could actually help him in the coming election.
The Babylon Bee wrote in jest, “Donald Trump’s campaign is breaking records thanks to a lavish fundraiser hosted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and the Democrat party.”
“I love it,” Jeffy responds.
It continues, “Sources say that as Trump arrived at a New York courthouse for the fundraiser this morning, his campaign raised millions from energized citizens eager to support the only presidential candidate indicted by a Soros-funded DA.”
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Deranged leftists descend on Manhattan
There has been no shortage of crazy people on the streets of New York after Trump’s arraignment. Sara Gonzales, Chad Prather, and Blake Kresses discussed the insanity on "The News & Why It Matters."
“It’s kangaroo court — banana republic. If we go down this route, we’re doomed … This is about to be really really bad,” Prather said.
“The left’s view is, ‘Well, the Founders aren’t here. This is our country now.’ And it truly is. We’ve [ceded] every institution to the radical left,” Kresses said.
Although a recent poll showed that 70% of independent voters believe that Trump’s indictment was a politically motivated hit job, the hosts weren’t optimistic about the odds of that amounting to any change.
Gonzales chimed in, “We just went through a midterm where we have exposed so much radical ideology. They’re trying to teach all white kids in public schools that they’re racist. They’re trying to groom your children. ... They’re doing all of these things, and you would think, ‘OK, that would be the line. That’s our line in the sand. We can't allow that to happen; we've got to do something else,’ and [independents] still didn’t do it.”
The lunacy of the radicals isn’t stopped by the silent majority, however.
On the divided streets of Manhattan, protesters gathered to support their causes. One particular woman wore whiteface and little else while screaming in the face of reporter Savanah Hernandez.
“F*** white people,” the woman screamed.
The chaos ensuing in New York City shows where the state of our nation will head if the madness is not ended soon.
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