Jenna Ellis, the former attorney for President Trump, quit the Republican Party during a live broadcast on the conservative news platform, “Real America’s Voice.”
Ellis said she is making the move because, in her mind, it’s clear the GOP does not – and did not – support the former President enough.
“Sure, the Republicans claim to be keeping Democrats in check, but only a handful of outsiders are actually speaking up,” she claimed. “The rest are compromising on everything.”
“The infrastructure bill, for example,” Ellis continued. “Or the second impeachment hoax, where [Senate GOP Leader Mitch] McConnell actually stood up and ranted against President Trump for his own political gain, not for the truth.”
The former Trump attorney’s announcement seems to have been spurred on by a recent spat with the Republican National Committee (RNC).
BREAKING: @JennaEllisEsq announces she is leaving the Republican Party.
“Even if I stand alone for the Truth, I will stand for the Truth.” – Jenna Ellis
Watch the full segment here: https://t.co/hc88hn3Ytt pic.twitter.com/Kv29y1tyQI
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) July 12, 2021
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Jenna Ellis Quits The GOP
Late this past weekend, Jenna Ellis accused the RNC of lying about a story claiming the group’s chief counsel questioned electoral fraud claims.
The in-fighting exploded following a report regarding a new book by Michael Wolff which, in one excerpt, claimed Ellis received a forwarded note from RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer.
In emails obtained by The Hill, Riemer questioned colleagues who were backing Trump’s claims of election fraud during the 2020 election.
“What Rudy [Giuliani] and Jenna are doing is a joke and they are getting laughed out of court,” Riemer reportedly wrote in emails obtained by the Washington Post.
“They are misleading millions of people who have wishful thinking that the president is going to somehow win this thing,” he continued.
The RNC is just DNC-lite
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) July 13, 2021
Ellis allegedly showed the message to the two people she was having dinner with at the time, one of whom was another attorney for the former President, Rudy Giuliani.
The book claims Giuliani was so incensed by the message that he called Riemer and delivered a profanity-laced demand to resign.
“Who the f*** do you you think you are? How can you be going against the president?” the book claims Giuliani said. “You need to resign and resign tonight … because you are going to get fired.”
Giuliani then purportedly called McDaniel to ensure he had been fired.
The RNC issued a statement insisting the story “is simply false.”
Ellis, however, said it was true and that she had the receipts to back it up. She demanded McDaniel resign.
Update. I guess she doesn’t want to be confronted about the RNC lying.#RonnaMustGo https://t.co/lUZUKpuXpN pic.twitter.com/qHdloHUriQ
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) July 11, 2021
Ellis Calls Out The RNC
The RNC, well after the incident in question took place in November, continued to raise money off Trump’s claims of election fraud.
Jenna Ellis, in her on-air speech in which she quit the Republican Party, addressed the perceived hypocrisy.
“What happened to the millions raised by the RNC in November and December of 2020?” she asked. “The Trump team never saw a dime of that help.”
“All of them, including Ronna McDaniel, should resign now,” she continued before announcing her departure.
“Until they do, as of today, I am resigning from the party,” she declared. “A compromised, corrupted majority is not a majority worth being a part of.”
Conservatives are loyal to our principles and our country. Not a party that lies and plays politics.
The RNC is learning that the hard way.
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) July 13, 2021
Riemer, who is still with the RNC despite Giuliani’s attempts to get him fired, insists that the committee did everything they could to support Trump without dabbling in election fraud conspiracies.
“Any suggestion that I did not support President Trump or do everything in my power to support the RNC’s efforts to reelect President Trump is false,” Riemer said in a statement to the Washington Post.
“I will say publicly now what I then said privately: I take issue with individuals who brought lawsuits that did not serve President Trump well and did not give him the best chance in court,” he added.
Good on @JennaEllisEsq. I am also not a Republican and never have been. It’s about conservative American values. It’s a value set not an R that’s important. Enough with so many Rs being democrat-lites. Way to go Jenna.
— Joe Pags Pagliarulo (@JoeTalkShow) July 13, 2021
Regardless of Riemer’s assertion, which might very well be accurate, it’s clear the RNC tried to discredit the story only for the truth to have come out in an embarrassing fashion.
“If we genuinely want to create a more perfect union, we have to stand up for our principles against a corrupted machine of self-serving politicians in Washington,” Ellis said.
McDaniel, who is the niece of anti-Trump Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), has since purportedly blocked Ellis on Twitter.
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