Leaked Jenna Ellis video is a 'knockout blow' to Trump: former prosecutor
November 14, 2023
Former President Donald Trump's one-time attorney Jenna Ellis sealed her former boss' fate in her proffer video with prosecutors in the Fulton County District Attorney's office, made public in a leak this week.
That's the view of former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, who sat for a legal analysis with Brian Tyler Cohen.
Among the claims made by Ellis is that Trump associate Dan Scavino told her the former president was "not going to leave" office "under any circumstances" — clear evidence that Trump's claims about election fraud weren't genuine, but a cover for him to try to seize power despite knowing he lost.
"This is a knockout blow on the criminal intent front," said Kirschner. "I mean, there's no way for Donald Trump to maintain even a little glimmer of hope of convincing people that he lacked criminal intent."
"Why?" Kirschner continued. "Because once you have witnesses — your own lawyers, for goodness sake — saying, you know, you informed everybody that it didn't matter if you lost, you're not leaving, you're not relinquishing power. So this evidence is really something of a knockout blow that can be used to prove Donald Trump's criminal intent once and for all, conclusively, beyond a reasonable doubt."
"But lest we think it's too good to be true, there's still a caveat, Brian. And the evidence has to be in admissible form," added Kirschner. To wit, he continued, Ellis' testimony that Scavino said what he said is hearsay. So the important point to convince a judge to admit the evidence is the fact that Scavino said "we" are not leaving — a statement that would potentially incriminate him, and therefore make her the witness to a criminal act he committed with Trump, not merely something he was relaying from Trump.
"That will have certain implications when they are fighting over the admissibility of certain statements in Donald Trump's trial," he said. "And it means that Scavino himself could be targeted, or that he is already cooperating to avoid this."
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