Trump's legal adviser Jenna Ellis in 2016 called him an 'idiot' and said his supporters didn't care about 'facts or logic
Jenna Ellis has been one of President Donald Trump's most ardent defenders since joining his campaign as a legal adviser and surrogate a year ago, but in early 2016 she was one of his toughest critics and deeply opposed his candidacy, according to a CNN KFile review of statements she made on her official Facebook page and in local Colorado radio appearances.
Ellis, an attorney and former law professor from Colorado, repeatedly slammed then-candidate Trump as an "idiot," who was "boorish and arrogant," and a "bully" whose words could not be trusted as factually accurate. She called comments he made about women "disgusting," and suggested he was not a "real Christian."
In
one March 2016 Facebook post, Ellis said Trump's values were "not American," linking to a
post that called Trump an "American fascist."
She praised Mitt Romney for speaking out against Trump, referring to him as "Drumpf," -- a nickname
coined by comedian John Oliver after a biographer revealed Trump's ancestor changed the family's surname from Drumpf to Trump.
"Why should we rest our highest office in America, on a man who fundamentally goes back and forth and really cannot be trusted to be consistent or accurate in anything," Ellis said in one
April 2016 radio appearance.
In March 2016, Ellis attacked Trump supporters in a Facebook post for not caring that
the Republican candidate was "unethical, corrupt, lying, criminal, dirtbag."
In another post, she said his supporters didn't care about the truth.
"
I could spend a full-time job just responding to the ridiculously illogical, inconsistent, and blatantly stupid arguments supporting Trump,"
she wrote in March 2016. "But here's the thing: his supporters DON'T CARE about facts or logic. They aren't seeking truth. Trump probably could shoot someone in the middle of NYC and not lose support. And this is the cumulative reason why this nation is in such terrible shape: We don't have truth seekers; we have narcissists."
Now, Ellis, who
came around to supporting Trump in the 2016 general election after he became the nominee, acts as a top surrogate for Trump in media appearances, backing his baseless claims that he won the 2020 presidential election and helping lead the campaign's longshot legal challenges to overturn the 2020 election results.
"President Trump is absolutely right to keep all legal options on the table as we evaluate results. He is committed to protecting election integrity and defending the Constitution. We are a nation of rules, not rulers,"
Ellis tweeted the day after the election. She frequently retweets the President's false claims on the election results and voter fraud and has refused to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden.
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Amazing (and sad) how $$$ corrupts people. We are a fundamentally flawed species.