Jenna Ellis told associates she has COVID-19: report - Business Insider
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Via: sister-mary-agnes-ample-bottom • 4 years ago • 35 commentsBy: Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)
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Members of President Donald Trump's legal team, Sidney Powell, right, with Jenna Ellis, left, attend a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
- Jenna Ellis, one of the lead lawyers on the Trump campaign's legal team, has told associates she has the coronavirus, Axios reported Tuesday.
- The news comes days after President Donald Trump announced that Rudy Giuliani, who is spearheading the legal team, had tested positive for the virus.
- Both Ellis and Giuliani have crisscrossed the country in recent days to attend crowded, indoor Republican events focused on overturning the results of the 2020 election.
- Ellis also attended a White House Christmas party on Friday that featured few masks and little social distancing, and Tuesday's news has reportedly infuriated some staffers who are worried about whether they or their family members may have been exposed.
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Jenna Ellis, one of the lawyers on the Trump campaign's legal team, has told associates in recent days that she has the coronavirus, Axios reported Tuesday. ABC News confirmed the reporting shortly after.
The news comes after President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Rudy Giuliani, his personal defense lawyer and the attorney leading the campaign's legal team, had also tested positive for COVID-19. Giuliani was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center on Sunday afternoon.
Both Ellis and Giuliani crisscrossed the country in recent days to attend crowded, indoor Republican events focused on discussing what the Trump legal team has described as widespread voter fraud and election-rigging, though they haven't been able to prove the charges in court.
Ellis also attended a White House Christmas party on Friday, and Tuesday's news has angered some staffers who raised concerns about whether they or their family members could have been exposed, Axios and ABC News reported.
ABC News also reported that Ellis previously had COVID-19 over the summer.
Axios' Jonathan Swan said that when he texted Ellis about his reporting on Monday night, she replied that it was "rude" to text her after midnight and added, "You must be more informed than me because I haven't heard that."
According to NBC News, more than 50 people in Trump's orbit have tested positive for COVID-19 since October, including the president; first lady Melania Trump; Barron Trump; White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; senior counselor Hope Hicks; former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway; senior advisor Stephen Miller and his wife Katie; and multiple other members of the White House staff and press corps.
It's not clear when Ellis reportedly tested positive and whether the White House has begun contact tracing to gauge who else she may have exposed.
In the last several weeks, Ellis has participated in multiple news conferences that featured few masks and little social distancing and functioned as venues for her and Giuliani to air baseless conspiracy theories suggesting Democrats stole the election from Trump by colluding with "big media" and, in some cases, dead communist dictators, to propel President-elect Joe Biden to the White House.
Ellis also raised some eyebrows when she described the campaign's legal shop as an "elite strike force," given that it hasn't won a single case out of more than two dozen legal challenges it's filed since Election Day. Earlier this month, The New York Times reported that despite Ellis' position as one of the president's chief lawyers, her legal background does not line up with the type of constitutional law experience required to prove a wide-ranging political conspiracy to void the results of an election.
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I'm already going straight to hell, but is it too soon for a Giuliani fart reference?
I bet Ellis got Covid from sniffing Rudy farts?
The look on her face spoke volumes. Rule of thumb: If you're close enough to hear it, you're close enough to be a prime candidate for fart fog invasion. She was clearly close enough to hear it.
He couldn't hold it in any longer
Maybe while he's in the hospital they can sew his loose ass up.
forget sew,
'Lock his ass up' !
Are we certain that it wasn’t Jenna that farted? I’m sure she wouldn’t admit to it, but what’s one more lie in an ocean of scandal?
I just realized that my tassels are twirled by Rudy Giuliani farting in court. It's official. I've lost my mind.
I'm keeping your seat warm
I heard she wasn't even invited to this superspreader event.
elite strike force
somebody on that team has a sense of humor...
i thought more along the lines as of these clowns, out front of the various contested state courthouses, carrying picket offensive signs, that SHOULD READ,
"lock Us Up"
Maybe she was helping Rudy, "tuck in his shirt", <wink wink nudge nudge>.
Thanks for that visual.
Ha!!
I have only one thing to say:
''ODOUR IN THE COURT''...
At least!
Well... he should get a pardon for farting in the hearing...... Or at least say "Pardon Me!"
He's after Pee Wee Herman's job.
It's so sad, too. Rudy really did used to be an icon. One that people respected. Now he is just a caricature of a man who's trying to relive his glory days
Have you seen John Lithgow's version of Ghouliani on Stephen Colbert - A Late Show? Freaking hilarious!
I can't stay up that late, wish I could. I understand I miss a lot of great TV
I usually don't stay up until 11:30 when Stephen has his monologue but it's a rare treat whenever I'm able to stay up late. It's only on weeknights though.
You can catch a lot of his monologues, etc., I think the one with Ghouliani included, on Facebook.
you can go back years of colbert on youtube
I need to find that one.
Stephen Colbert is a hoot. I'm looking forward to the time that he is back in front of an audience.
The presser at Four Seasons was particularly entertaining.....and ironic...since they were standing next to a building that sells dildo's.
Is Rudy at Sloan-Kettering Total Landscaping?
This is all an SNL cold open, right?
It's satire, right?
... please......
Satire would be less embarrassing for the US, but unfortunately, it's not.
The only thing positive for Rudy over the last 4 months is his covid test.
Fuck that bitch.