Jenna Ellis Gloats After Donald Trump's Libertarian Convention Fiasco

Jenna Ellis, former lawyer to Donald Trump, gloated on social media on Saturday night after the former president's badly-received speech at the Libertarian National Convention.

Trump was the first former president to speak at the Libertarian's convention in its 50-year history. Trump, who is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee in the upcoming election, told a crowd of about 1,000 attendees in Washington, D.C., to choose him as their nominee when they make their pick on Sunday.

"I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me. And we should win together," the former president said.

His remark was met with loud and long boos from the audience. Trump shrugged off the crowd's reaction and doubled down, saying: "You heard those words. Nominate me or vote. Vote for me because the Libertarians want to vote for me and most of them will and its very important."

In an emailed statement to Newsweek on Saturday night, Jason Miller, senior adviser to the Trump campaign, said they "absolutely" knew "that it's not exactly home base" for the likely Republican nominee.

"There will be people who want him to be there and people who don't want him to be there, but we're on offense and competing for non-traditional votes in order to unite the country," Miller said. "President Trump is going to get credit for showing up and making clear he wants to earn votes from members of the Libertarian Party and people who view themselves as being more libertarian minded."

The crowd at the Libertarian convention cheered when Trump promised to commute the sentence of deep web market mastermind, Ross Ulbricht, who is currently serving a life sentence for the now-defunct illegal online marketplace, "Silk Road."

However, Ellis, who took a plea deal to potentially testify against Trump after she was charged, along with the former president and 17 others for conspiring to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 election victory in Georgia, took a jab at Trump on social media over his ill-received speech.

"This is what happens when he talks to regular voters who want accountability for government lockdowns and the covid vax [vaccine], not MAGA [Make America Great Again] groupies who travel to the Bronx for rallies," she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday night.

Trump held a rally in the Bronx on Thursday, with some speculating that not all of the attendees were actually from the New York City borough.

In a follow-up post, Ellis wrote: "Some Trump advisor is totally getting fired tomorrow. And then rehired probably by June."

Newsweek reached out to Trump's campaign via email and Ellis via social media direct message for comment.

In September 2023, Ellis said on her radio show she cannot endorse Trump, "I know [Trump] well as a friend and a former boss, I have great love and respect for him personally. I simply can't support him for elected office again. Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant, narcissistic tendency to say that he's never done anything wrong."

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. addressed the Libertarian convention on Friday and while Biden was invited to speak, he declined.