Just prior to their plea deals last month, former Trump 2020 “Elite Strike Force” lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney “Kraken” Powell gave to Fulton County, Georgia prosecutors some damning accounts of their fat orange client’s final days in the White House, according to video obtained by ABC News.
In her “proffer session,” Ellis told Fulton DA Fani Willis’s team that during a December 19, 2020 Christmas party – days after states had certified their electors and a more than a week after the Supreme Court tossed the lawsuit brought by Picasso-faced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton meant to overturn Biden’s win – Ellis broken the news to Trump Reichsminister of propaganda Dan Scavino that the fight “was essentially over” and thus time for the Orange Tyrant to face the music.
“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, saying they’d both been drinking. “And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said ‘Well, the boss… The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.’ And I said to him, ‘Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?’ and he said, ‘We don’t care.'”
Ellis said that exchange had “indicated to me that he was serious and that was in furtherance of something that he had discussed with the boss,” meaning she believed Scavino had foreknowledge of a planned disruption to the Electoral College certification on January 6th. She also alluded to two other episodes that could be similarly damning but claimed attorney-client privilege over them.
The Kraken for her part said straight up that “Did I know anything about election law? No. 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,” and went into how Trump appointed her as special counsel to lead a massive “investigation” that would’ve included seizing voting machines and all of that crazy shit that Powell, Mike Lindell, and Patrick Byrne had fed Donald during that now-infamous Oval Office meeting, just a night prior to Ellis’s exchange with Scavino.
“[Trump] was specifically willing to appoint me special counsel. In fact, he looked over at [White House Counsel Pat] Cipollone three different times and said, ‘Do I have the authority to name her special counsel?’ and Cipollone said, ‘Yes, you do,’ And then somebody said, ‘Well, she doesn’t have a security clearance,’ So he looked at Cipollone and he said, ‘Do I have the authority to give her a security clearance?’ and Cipollone said, ‘Yes, you do.’ And then about the third time we went through that scenario, Cipollone, I think, said, ‘You can name her anything you want, Mr President, and nobody’s going to pay a bit of attention to it,'” the Kraken told Fulton prosecutors.
“I guess [Trump] assumed, and I would have thought, that I would have looked at putting into effect a provision of 13848 that would have allowed the machines to be secured in four or five states or cities,” the Kraken said of the legendary draft executive order to seize the machines.
The next morning she was ready to show up and get Kraken on the fraud bullshit, but “I called Mark Meadows the next morning just to run it to ground, and said, ‘Hey, when can I come pick up my badge and my key?’ He essentially laughed – I mean he said, you know, ‘It’s not going to happen.'”
The Kraken also told prosecutors about a meeting which devolved into “a big shouting match in which Rudy called me every name in the book and I was the worst lawyer he’d ever seen in his life. There were no circumstances under which he’d work with me on anything. He called me a bitch and I don’t know what all, and that’s pretty much all I remember about that one.”