Coronavirus Covid-19: Donald Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis tests positive for coronavirus

Another member of Donald Trump’s legal team tested positive for the coronavirus, turning the US President’s effort to reverse his electoral defeat into further disarray.

Axios reports that Jenna Ellis, who has led Trump’s team along with her personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, has told her associates that she has COVID-19.

His diagnosis comes just two days after Giuliani’s.

Inside the White House, there are reportedly fears that another outbreak is coming, as Ms Ellis attended a Christmas party for senior staff in the east wing of the building on Friday.

The event was held indoors and she did not wear a mask.

“She had the gall to show up at the senior staff’s Christmas party, knowing that everyone was furious at her for constantly agitating Trump with nonsense,” said an anonymous source, identified as a “senior administration official,” told the reporter. Jonathan Swan.

That was a reference to the president’s various conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud, which Giuliani and Ellis have reinforced despite repeated defeats in court.

The couple have recently traveled across the country for hearings, giving campaign witnesses a public platform from which to voice their allegations of fraud.

Ms. Ellis declined to confirm her diagnosis. Swan approached her for comment and asked her “repeatedly” if she wanted to deny the Axios reports. She did not answer.

After the story was published, he replied in a tweet.

“It’s funny how the mainstream media is quick to believe one or two anonymous ‘sources’ at a time and yet refuse to acknowledge hundreds of eyewitnesses in six states who signed affidavits under oath,” wrote the Mrs. Ellis.

Again, he did not deny Swan’s reports.

Only a handful of the affidavits Ms. Ellis mentioned have been filed with the court as alleged evidence of fraud.

So far, judges in various states have not found any of them credible.

Dozens more of the witnesses in question have been testifying at public events attended by Mr. Giuliani and Ms. Ellis, where they have not been put under oath. Last week, for example, the couple visited Arizona, Michigan and Georgia.

You can read about one of those hearings here.

The fact that Mr. Giuliani had traveled so much in the week before his diagnosis was already a cause for concern. Ms. Ellis’s infection adds to that concern.

The events were attended by hundreds of people, were carried out indoors and none of the lawyers wore a face mask or practiced social distancing.

“That’s what worries me so much about that video, and that worries me, frankly,” ER doctor Megan Ranney told CNN after images of Giuliani mingling with other people in close quarters surfaced. . .

“We know that the two days before someone develops symptoms, before testing positive, is the time when they are most infectious.

“So Giuliani has not only been exposed and contracted COVID, but has potentially exposed hundreds and hundreds of Trump supporters to the virus during its most infectious phase.”

Yesterday, the Trump administration’s Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, appeared on Good Morning America with a direct message for Americans who did not take simple steps to stop the spread of the virus.

“It’s really worrying to me that we still have people who don’t understand how much spread is happening between people who don’t have symptoms, who think they are okay. They tested positive and exposed other people. That’s very worrying,” Dr. Adams said .

He did not mention Mr. Giuliani by name.

“I want the American people to know that this virus is incredibly relentless. Cases are increasing, hospitalizations are increasing. My colleagues are tired,” he continued.

“And we need you to wait a little longer, because we have vaccines on the way, but we want so many people to be alive to receive them.”