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groundloop

(11,518 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 04:12 PM Nov 2020

Infighting and an attempted 'coup': Trump team erupts into chaos as Giuliani takes over legal effort

Source: ABC News

As President Donald Trump’s legal efforts challenging the election results continue to hit dead ends, his campaign and legal teams have descended into chaos behind the scenes as many brace for the end of the post-election fight, multiple sources tell ABC News.

Since launching a long-shot effort to overturn the election results through baseless claims of voter fraud, President Trump has suffered a dizzying barrage of court losses and setbacks around the country, leading him to late last week to install Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, to lead the legal efforts going forward.

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Over the weekend, Giuliani and his own team of lawyers, which also includes Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis, attempted what was described to ABC News as an internal campaign "coup"— an attempt to wrestle power away from the current longstanding Trump campaign leadership by claiming the president had given them full control moving forward, multiple sources said.

The attempted power grab hit a boiling point on Saturday when Miller, who’s been the campaign's chief strategist for months, and Ellis got into what sources said was as a "screaming match" in front of other staffers. They both threatened to call the president to settle who he wanted to be in charge, sources said. At one point, Miller berated Ellis and called her “crazy,” multiple sources said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/infighting-attempted-coup-trump-team-erupts-chaos-giuliani/story?id=74257079&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_hero_hed

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Infighting and an attempted 'coup': Trump team erupts into chaos as Giuliani takes over legal effort (Original Post) groundloop Nov 2020 OP
Proceed, governor. Wednesdays Nov 2020 #1
I'm beginning to believe that Giuliani migh be - OhZone Nov 2020 #2
It's strange seeing "Giuliani" and "intelligence" in the same sentence groundloop Nov 2020 #3
Miller berated Ellis and called her "crazy," SeattleVet Nov 2020 #4
Forget legal battles, forget the White House infighting, here is the kind of madness, Chainfire Nov 2020 #5
When the cultists he publicly considers suckers and losers act this way... Lock him up. Nov 2020 #7
Miller called her "crazy" whut? Grins Nov 2020 #6
AND pay him $20K per day, even though he has no law license FakeNoose Nov 2020 #8
Jenna Ellis looks a little sturdier, in disposition: Judi Lynn Nov 2020 #9
in this case it is Jason Miller Kali Nov 2020 #13
I would have loved to llashram Nov 2020 #10
Jason Miller Gilbert Moore Nov 2020 #11
TBH, Jason Miller is not much of an improvement MrsMatt Nov 2020 #12
Ambushes, knife fights, treachery, & gun battles. And there's gotta be a crossbow in there somewhere NBachers Nov 2020 #14
Turning on each other Sierra89 Nov 2020 #15

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
4. Miller berated Ellis and called her "crazy,"
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 04:44 PM
Nov 2020

Even a blind chicken sometimes gets a kernel of corn...especially when the barnyard is knee-deep in that corn!

Chainfire

(17,532 posts)
5. Forget legal battles, forget the White House infighting, here is the kind of madness,
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 04:45 PM
Nov 2020

that is being discussed on a large conservative forum near you. This is a part of a conversation among the "patriots."

The Oath Keepers is the largest single militia in the nation. It is comprised of mostly of retired LE ex military and active LE. Not alot of fringe wanna be commandos. But heavily armed men and women trained and who have " been there:

They have declared, truthfully this election process this cycle as fraudulent and non binding. And vowed to resist and ignore the possibly incoming thief in chiefs every official effort.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.in...ump-joe-biden-2020-election-b1723323.html?amp


May be time to have to pick that side soon. Liberty, rule of law. Or fraud , socialism and becoming a third world dictatorship.

This ISNT a political post. It simply recognizing that the SHTF event discussed constantly here may well be here.


Kali

(55,007 posts)
13. in this case it is Jason Miller
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 07:41 PM
Nov 2020

not Stephen.

not that it really matters, they are all treacherous scumbags

Gilbert Moore

(218 posts)
11. Jason Miller
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 06:53 PM
Nov 2020

The directive sparked outrage from senior campaign aides including Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and senior adviser Jason Miller, sources said.

NBachers

(17,107 posts)
14. Ambushes, knife fights, treachery, & gun battles. And there's gotta be a crossbow in there somewhere
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 08:24 PM
Nov 2020

Bump each other all off.

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