Trump attorney Jenna Ellis details the team’s post-election legal strategy on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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State law now requires the
state law now requires the
governors office to formalize
the certification, which paves
the way for the Trump campaign
to pursue other legal options in
a separate recount. If they
chose dot, choose
will leaving the door open for
the Trump campaign
comes after two lawmakers met
with President Trump saying they
havent seen any evidence that
would change the elections
outcome.
What is the presidents legal
strategy going forward
here now with an update one of
presidents attorneys Jenna
Ellis
good morning?
Thank you, some for being with
us
lets start. If we can with
Georgia.
The vote has been certified in
Georgia
on Monday. I believe its
Michigan and Pennsylvania that
will move to certify their vote.
Tell me what it does to your
legal challenges.
What kind of timeline does that
put you on?
Certainly, we are under
constitutional deadlines and we
plan and intend to file a
lawsuit in Georgia, because
Georgia, specifically, is a only
fourteen thousand votes.
It may sound like a lot
to put it in perspective when
President Bush was challenging
the results in Florida back in
two thousand, that was over sixty one thousand
votes.
So over four times as many
and we have indications from
Atlanta specifically that there
was double voting, nonresident
voting and other voter
intimidation, which is against
the law
and also the election officials
there. When we are talking about
fraud, will we have to be clear
that this is about election
integrity? When the states
officials are changing the
rules,
they are going against Georgia
State LAW
and they are counting these
ballots that are actually
illegal.
They are not allowing
Republicans to observe the
process
and really critically the rate
of rejection of ballots in twenty. Twenty
in Georgia is only zero point, two percent.
By contrast in two thousand and sixteen, it was
five point: seventy seven percent.
So when we are talking about
only fourteen thousand ballots, we have to
make sure this is done legally
its done accurately and that
every legal vote counts.
So we do plan on filing a
lawsuit there and we are looking
into the recount process because,
as President Trump continues to
say, if you just continue to
count again the same illegal
ballots, you are going to get
the same results.
We want to make sure this is
done fairly and accurately
will Jen. I love the follow up
as well and when and where it
comes to
so allegations your colleagues
made in your press conference
last week,
I heard you say in that press
conference. What we are watching
is essentially an opening
argument.
Sidney Powell told Glenn Beck
last week that evidence of fraud,
widespread fraud that could sway
the election would be coming
forward.
I would like to ask you: when do
you expect lawsuits to be filed,
and do you expect the public to
see some of the evidence that
you are suggesting you have to
back up these claims
absolutely,
and we have been very clear. We
are not trying this in the court
of public opinion.
We will be trying this in a
court of law,
but Americans have the right to
see all of the evidence and to
see all of what we are doing
thats, why we have continued to
have not only the press
conferences, but all of these
follow up interviews to say that
this is all about making sure
that we are fully transparent
and every legal vote should
count.
So we have evidence in three
states: Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Nevada, where the law was not
followed.
I just explained also in
Georgia.
We have a recount thats going
on in Wisconsin and we are also
looking into Arizona,
and so when we talk about
widespread systematic fraud,
its about these election
officials that have completely
disregarded the rules,
and that is against the law,
its a violation of the
constitution. Only those state
legislatures can set the law for
how the elections are. I couldnt
know in their state
whether you have election
officials that are completely
disregarding that and we have
sworn affidavits of people who
have seen not only voter
intimidation, but these election
officials telling them to count
ballots in a different way. That
is against the law
and when you also have ballots
being count in secret,
every American should want to
know that our elections are not
being manipulated.
Thats the point of this
election integrity process-
and we do intend to challenge
that and we believe that this
elections was stolen.
We can prove that
and we have enough evidence in
each of these states that when
every legal vote is counted,
President Trump clearly won by a
land slide.
Will you think you have that
already Jenna
thats available, and you will
present it in Court- is what you
are saying.
We do
thats why we have been filing
lawsuits to stop the
certification process, not rush
to judgment.
The Democrats want to rush to
Coronate Joe Biden. They dont
want to have a free and fair
process.
We want to make sure that the
next president is the one that
the people have elected freely
and fairly,
and I will add, will that our
constitution requires that and
put in intentional safeguards so
that if and when there is
corruption which we have had
our nations history, then there
are safeguards and thats why we
want to make sure that its the
constitutional process, the
legal process is followed
and every American should get on
board with election integrity,
because we are America,
the United States must have free
and fair elections
thats. What President Trump is
fighting for.
Will we will be watching
excited to hear about it,
interested in hearing the.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-21.