‘The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.'
MAGA supporters furious over Jenna Ellis interview with prosecutors
A video of prosecutors’ interview with former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis has sent MAGA supporters into a fury, Newsweek reported.
In the video, filmed before Ellis made a plea deal and published by ABC News Monday, Ellis tells prosecutors that Trump aide Dan Scavino told her “in an excited tone” at a White House Christmas party weeks after the 2020 election that “the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances.”
“And he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave,'” Ellis said of the alleged Dec. 19 conversation.
“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.'”
Responding to the video on X, diehard Trump supporter Laura Loomer slammed Ellis as a "grifter"
And conservative commentator Rogan O'Handley alleged the video was released so that prosecutors could fundraise.
"Drive the news cycle on Tuesday, get [Fani Willis] some buzz, then collect all the DC swamp cash on Wednesday," he wrote on X. "These Marxists are scum."
Sidney Powell throws Trump under the bus
Powell told prosecutors she planned to take voting machines from around the country, and she frequently communicated with Trump to overturn 2020. She specifically mentioned her effort to seize voting machines.
"Did I know anything about election law? No," she told Fulton County. "But I understand fraud from having been a prosecutor for 10 years, and knew generally what the fraud suit should be if the evidence showed what I thought it showed."
Powell agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors in the county, accepting six years of probation.
In response to Raw Story's report, Ted Goodman, political advisor to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, sent the following statement:
"The government's main witness, Sidney Powell, just cleared Rudy Giuliani from any involvement in a conspiracy by making it unequivocally clear that Rudy Giuliani told her that he would never work with her on anything, under any circumstances. If Fani Willis had any integrity, she'd dismiss the case against Rudy Giuliani and end this farce of a trial designed solely to keep President Donald Trump out of the White House in 2024."
Jack Smith now has the note
A furious Donald Trump ripped up a note about top Army leaders who said the military could not involve itself in the election. Then he tweeted that would "change the course of history," calling supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021: "Be there. Will be wild."
The note — written by a Trump staffer affirming the president's intention to fire army leaders should they publish another public statement — appears in Jonathan Karl's widely anticipated new book "Tired of Winning" set to be released at midnight.
"Doesn't that get right at his intent of what he wanted them to do?" asked MSNBC's host Nicolle Wallace, referencing Jack Smith's indictment over the 2020 election and Jan. 6. riot.
"Absolutely," replied NYU law school professor Andrew Weissmann, who previously served as the FBI general counsel. “That note gets ripped up into pieces so no one could find it."
Ripped up note from Johnny McEntee to Trump (Photo: National Archives via Jan. 6 Committee)
The note, written after Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Army Chief of Staff James McConville issued a statement affirming the military would play no role in determining the outcome of a U.S. election, was eventually found and pieced back together by the National Archives. It appears in its entirety in the book's pages, Weissman pointed out.
Then Weissman dove into why it matters.
"As much of you think of it as a military organization with a hierarchy, they are also trained they do not violate the Constitution," Weissmann said. "And when there's an invalid order, they cannot follow it because the Constitution comes first.
"So, to me, this is right to the heart of Donald Trump brushing up against one guardrail," he continued.
Weissman praised the book, explaining that this piece of the Trump election scandal always drew his attention.
"I have always been fascinated by the fact you had had the Defense Department and [Gen. Mark] Milley, with a lot going on behind the scenes, pushing back because you can't engage in a coup without military backing," he said. "And the fact that Kash Patel was there, a figure with no military expertise whatsoever, and was installed there, to me, is always this unwritten story about what was happening."
Weissmann said his time in the FBI and the Justice Department showed him that the military is "incredibly law-abiding" and genuinely "stand for the rule of law." So, he doesn't see them participating in a coup any time soon, even if the commander-in-chief orders it.
Weissmann recalled Justice Department friends telling him Trump's tenure was "malevolence matched by incompetence." After Trump and his allies found the light switches, the next time around, he will know better how to recreate the U.S. government in his image and dismantle much of what is in place now.
This is already a plot in the far-right wing of the Republican Party being pushed by the Heritage Foundation. It's known as Project 2025.
