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Deadline: White House

“Another one bites the dust”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses the revelation that a former lawyer for the twice-impeached ex-president knew that she was lying about election fraud claims in the wake of the 2020 presidential race adding to the mounting pile of evidence that Fox News anchors, executives, and allies knowingly misled their viewers, the women suing Texas over abortion access as more states pass bans, new laws popping up across the country railroading the rights of parents and children, and more. Joined by: Jeremy Peters, Miles Taylor, Frank Figliuzzi, Mary McCord, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, Amanda Zurawski, Nancy Northup, Barbara McQuade, Kim Atkins Stohr, Charlie Sykes, Cornell Belcher, and Basil Smikle

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, it's 4 o'clock in New York. Another one bites the dust. News today that tier

0:12.2

one conspiracy theorist and former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis knew she was lying when she

0:17.7

falsely claimed that Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 election was a result of widespread

0:22.7

voter fraud. Ellis joins Fox luminaries and Fox Corporation head honchos this week who

0:28.1

are for the very first time being unmasked by the legal system as winning liars and showcases

0:36.2

of liars about Donald Trump's claims of vote fraud. From the New York Times quote,

0:41.0

Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who represented President Trump after his loss in the 2020 election, admitted

0:47.0

in a sworn statement released on Wednesday that she had knowingly misrepresented the facts

0:52.2

in several of her public claims that widespread voter fraud led to Trump's defeat. The

0:58.6

admissions by Ellis were part of an agreement to accept public censure and settle disciplinary

1:04.1

measures brought against her by state bar officials in her home state of Colorado. Jenna Ellis'

1:10.5

confession is a far cry from the lies she told to millions.

1:17.4

President Trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this election. We have at least

1:21.1

six states that were corrupted if not more through the voting systems. We know that President

1:26.6

Trump won in a landslide. But we knew he didn't and it turns out so did she. In a statement

1:36.2

posted on Twitter, Jenna Ellis claimed that the case against her was politically motivated

1:42.2

and Ellis and her attorney insist that she remains a practicing attorney in good standing

1:47.0

in Colorado. What she admitted to doing though, damaged democracy and so distrust of our

1:54.0

elections and our election workers putting their lives at risk today still. The closer to

2:00.4

home for people like Jenna Ellis, she amplified Trump's most dangerous lies to his own voters,

2:07.6

lies that put Trump supporters like Stephen Ayers smack dab in the middle of a deadly crime

2:12.7

scene. Here's what Stephen Ayers had to say about the disgraced ex-president.

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