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- cross-posted to:
- politics@kbin.social
- politics@lemmy.ml
Ellis, one of 18 Trump associates charged in Georgia election subversion case, says she ‘simply can’t support him’ again
Jenna Ellis – the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 – says she will not vote for him in the future because he is a “malignant narcissist” who cannot admit mistakes.
“I simply can’t support him for elected office again,” Ellis said. “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.”
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 “on the frontlines of America’s culture war” since 1977.
I’m not sure how anybody could have respect for someone, like Ellis, who was so completely illiterate to not be able to read the incredibly obvious writing on the wall. Trump didn’t morph into a malignant narcissist. That’s always been who he was. Hell - it’s been his brand for as long as he’s been in the public eye. To think that a malignant narcissist would choose to be grateful to you or treat you like a person and not a means to an end is the very height of hubris. Stupid, blind hubris.
I mean, the whole reason that malignant narcissists are successful is that they’re very good at playing on their victims’ emotions and deceiving. Even someone as trash as Trump, you see this steady stream of new victims both being willing to sacrifice their own social and professional lives on the altar of his ego and being shocked that he won’t comply with contract terms or reciprocate with even a mild inconvenience. Imagine some dude standing next to a hot stove, saying it’s not that hot and offering $100 to put a hand on it. Then when someone burns their hand, denying he ever made the offer.
Humans are terrible at rational decisions.
Well, the last guy probably cooled the stove down enough when he grabbed it so it should be fine for me.
Like Chris Christie, she supported him for 4 years and then only at the end was suddenly shocked to discover he was a bad guy. Of course he claims he soured on Trump after the Jan 6 insurrection and she broke with hm publicly only after she gets charged alongside him and faces mandatory minimum prison time.
I think she’s virtue signaling for the court. Hoping to sway sentencing when it comes (or praying they let her off now that she sees Trump’s a turd).
Could be that she’s announcing that unless DJT starts paying for her lawyer she’s going state’s evidence.
Well I don’t see DT doing that considering he can’t pay for his own at this point.
I hope you’re right about the states evidence.
She might not understand that he’s cash-strapped.
She’s not illiterate. She was blinded by her own greed.
I was being metaphorical with the “illiterate” comment. As in, she’s not able to read the writing on the wall.
I know you were. Just like I was being metaphorical with the “blinded” comment.
I get the feeling that had they succeeded in overthrowing democracy as planned, she wouldn’t be saying this right now. Take that for what you will.
Perhaps the only good thing I can ever say about Trump is how consistent he’s been this whole time. Consistently shitty, but consistent nonetheless. Granted, he makes decisions based on whatever the last person in the room convinced him to do and contradicts himself on a minute-by-minute basis, so he’s even shitty at consistency, but that’s just part of the consistent shittiness. It’s like a human centipede ouroboros.