'Linchpin' witness: Legal analyst predicts ex-Trump lawyer next to make deal with Fani Willis
September 29, 2023
Prosecutors should be scrambling to make a deal with indicted ex-Donald Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis as she's feeling increasingly spurned by her co-defendant and former boss, according to a legal expert.
The lawyer has been iced out of Trump's inner circle for supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president and has publicly spoken out in opposition to the former president, and lawyer Lisa Rubin told MSNBC Friday that could make her a "linchpin" witness.
This comes after Scott Hall, a bail bondsman charged with tampering with voting machines in Coffee County, became the first defendant in the Georgia case to plead guilty and take a deal with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
"18 people are a lot of people to bank on paying legal bills, never working again as a bail bondsman, going to jail if need be for Donald Trump," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "With your intimate knowledge of your dog-eared indictment ... who else do you think [Willis] would be targeting for an agreement?"
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"Look, I don't know who else is in discussions with the DA's office, and we should assume that there are others who may be in those discussions, and that they have progressed," said Rubin. However, she continued, "If I were a betting person, I would say Jenna Ellis is a person who is right for those discussions."
"She has time and again indicated her dissatisfaction with the former president," Rubin continued. "She has endorsed somebody else in the presidential race. She feels abandoned by Trump world and is struggling with her legal bills, turning to a GoFundMe to get her this far to date, and is probably still struggling under the weight of those."
"So I think Jenna Ellis could be a linchpin here," added Rubin. "Certainly her work with, among other people, Rudy Giuliani, and her access to Trump, her proximity to Sidney Powell even, may make her a very attractive target if I were prosecutors."
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