Jenna Ellis, a former member of Donald Trump’s legal team that tried and failed to overturn the results of the November presidential election, announced on Monday that she is leaving the Republican Party, at least until RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel resigns.
“All of them, including Ronna McDaniel, should resign now. Until they do, as of today, I am resigning from the party,” Ellis said on ‘Real America’s Voice.’
“I am changing my voter registration and I am no longer a Republican until the party decides it wants to be conservative again,” she continued. “Even if I stand alone for the truth, I will stand for the truth. A compromised, corrupted majority is not a majority worth being a part of. If we genuinely want to create a more perfect union we have to stand up for our principles against the corrupted machine of self serving politicians in Washington.”
This comes after Ellis clashed with McDaniel over a new report about the RNC’s response to the Trump legal team efforts to overturn the result of the election.
According to Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, ‘Landslide: The Finals Days of the Trump Presidency,’ Ellis was at a dinner with Rudy Giuliani and former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik in November when she received an email from senior RNC attorney Justin Riemer questioning Trump’s elections claims. She reportedly passed the phone around so other members could see the email which left them “stunned.”
The RNC denied the report in a statement to Insider, telling the outlet, “As is typical with most things Michael Wolff writes, this story is simply false. The RNC legal team fought tooth and nail on election integrity efforts for the entirety of 2020, and that continues today.”
This led to a rebuke from Ellis.
“This report is true @GOPChairwoman, and you know I have the receipts,” she wrote on Twitter. “Why is the RNC lying and saying it’s false?”
Ellis then tweeted that McDaniel blocked her after being called out, with the hashtag #RonnaMustGo.
