Jenna Ellis Sparks MAGA Fury Over Georgia Trump Interview

Jenna Ellis has angered MAGA supporters after a video of her being interviewed by lawyers in Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia was leaked.

Ellis, one of the ex-president’s former lawyers, accepted a plea deal in October after she was named in an indictment accusing Trump of conspiracy to commit forgery, solicitation of violation of an oath by a public official, and breaking Georgia’s anti-racketeering act. The former president has since pleaded not guilty.

Ellis pleaded guilty to one felony charge of aiding and abetting false statements and writings, and agreed to the prosecutor’s recommendations that she face five years of probation, pay a $5,000 fine in restitution, and perform 100 hours of community service.

ABC News has obtained a video recording of an interview with prosecutors a day before her plea deal that has angered Trump supporters. In the clip, she alleged that Dan Scavino, Trump’s deputy chief of staff at the time, said to her in December 2020 that “the boss” didn’t plan to leave the White House “under any circumstances,” regardless of the results of the election.

Newsweek has contacted Scavino and Ellis to comment on this story.

“Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave,” Ellis claimed that he said “in a kind of excited tone” after she told him the attempt to challenge the election was “essentially over.”

She said: “And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said: ‘Well, the boss,’ meaning President Trump — and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him — he said: ‘The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.'”

Ellis continued: “And I said to him, ‘Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?’ and he said, ‘We don’t care.'”

Responding to clips of the interview, which circulated on X, formerly Twitter, MAGA supporters were outraged at her testimony.

Laura Loomer, a political activist called Ellis a “grifter.” The lawyer had accepted over $217,000 in legal funds to fight the case and some have called on her to return the money since she has now pleaded guilty.

Conservative commentator Rogan O’Handley similarly implied the video was leaked to fundraise for Georgia prosecutors.

A third account called Ellis “a nasty clown,” and a fourth said she was a “traitor.”

A total of 18 other co-conspirators were also named in the indictment, including prominent Trump allies Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman.

In October, another former Trump lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, pleaded guilty in the case, while Sidney Powell, another ex-Trump lawyer, admitted six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit election interference in a court hearing in Atlanta. Bail bondsman Scott Hall was the first to accept a plea deal in September.

ABC News and The Washington Post has also obtained recordings of interviews with Powell and Chesebro.

In a statement to ABC News, Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead counsel in the Fulton County case, called the “purported private conversation,” as described by Ellis, “absolutely meaningless.”

“The only salient fact to this nonsense line of inquiry is that President Trump left the White House on January 20, 2021, and returned to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida,” Sadow said. “If this is the type of bogus, ridiculous ‘evidence’ DA Willis intends to rely upon, it is one more reason that this political, travesty of a case must be dismissed.”