Ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis picks a surprising fight against Christian nationalism

Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis is a Republican Christian, but she wants you to know she's not a Christian nationalist.

Ellis, who already pleaded guilty for her role in the Georgia election subversion scheme for which the former president is also fighting serious criminal charges, on Friday responded to a post by Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk. Kirk, who is battling allegations of antisemitism at his political conference, stated that a "Christian veteran just beheaded a monument to Satan in Iowa’s state Capitol."

"If this is Christian Nationalism, we need more of it. Hero," Kirk wrote on X.

Ellis replied, choosing to take exception with Kirk's embrace of Christian nationalism.

"Christianity teaches that we war not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness (Eph 6). The satanic statue had no more actual power than an idol in Babylon. I hate that this was erected in *anywhere,* especially a State Capitol, but lawlessness in the name of 'Christian Nationalism' is completely missing the point of religious freedom and legitimacy of law," Ellis wrote. "Destruction of property is not okay for the Christian who hates a satanic statue any more than it’s okay for the satanist who hates a nativity scene."

Then, the individual Kirk and Ellis were talking about came to play.

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"I did nothing to any Satanist (flesh and blood), [Ellis]," Michael Cassidy wrote Saturday. "I pray that they will, as billions of pagans have before, repent of their spiritual wickedness and accept Christ as their Savior."

Ellis then said she never accused Cassidy "of doing anything to a human Satanist or 'flesh and blood.'"

"Have you read Ephesians 6? The point is that the battle against evil is not in the physical realm, but the spiritual," Ellis said on Saturday. "That statue had no authority or power. I pray for them as well to repent and accept Christ. But I’m not going around destroying their property."

After her row with Cassidy, Ellis went on to proclaim that "The Christian Nationalist crowd is the new BLM."

"Both cheer tearing down statues and destroying property they don’t like in the name of their cause," the lawyer wrote. "Both are wrong."

Ellis finally stated, "The Christian Nationalists are saying it out loud: they want blasphemy laws. Compelled religion and civil government punishment for noncompliance. It’s Christian wokeness. This is antithetical to everything the Founders stood for: liberty and justice for all."