Election 2020

Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Says If Michelle Obama Is Feeling Depressed, It’s Because She Needs Jesus

Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Jenna Ellis, and former Washington, D.C. Democratic Party leader A. Scott Bolden got into it on Fox News Thursday, over Michelle Obama’s assertion that she’s depressed about racial unrest and the COVID-19 situation in the U.S.

Obama had claimed she’s been “dealing with some form of low-grade depression” due to “racial strife” in the U.S. and Trump administration’s response, and Bolden noted “I certainly agree with her,” Mediaite reports.

“30 percent plus, according to the Census Bureau, all of us are feeling some form of anxiety or depression, low-level — she didn’t say clinical — because of this pandemic, the lack of leadership, and the numbers keep going up,” Bolden said. “Of the racial strife that this president will not address to bring this country together, and the economy.”

But Ellis brought guns to this knife fight.

“I’d really like to know what Scott is referring to when he’s talking about this president with all of the coronavirus response, it’s been absolutely excellent, and when you’re talking about his ability to serve the Black community, are you talking about the First Step Act? Are you talking about the fact that he is so pro-life and has reduced as much as possible Planned Parenthood?”

Really? More than 162,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 and Ellis is going to walk that pooch? And all the racial unrest that Trump has stirred up because he thinks white supremacists are “very fine people?”

Then she claimed Michelle Obama is depressed because she’s progressive.

“Also, I think that this is more of an issue of Michelle Obama’s liberalism because the Family Institute for Studies has shown that actually, conservatives tend to be more joyful and more happy overall with their lives because we still believe in the pillars of society, which is the church and the family,” Ellis said. “So I would encourage Michelle Obama to go to church and find meaning in the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal savior.”

Ellis is really stretching here. Conservatives are “joyful” and “happy” because in general, they don’t care about anyone else other than their immediate friends and family. If you shut out all the racial strife, all the injustices, and all the deaths from the pandemic, you’d probably be “happy” too. And the Obamas have made it perfectly clear that they regularly attend church.

And that’s when the fun began as Bolden fired off a shot of his own:

“Well African-Americans believe in God a lot, and I gotta tell you, it’s a real anxious, unsteady period of time, not just now, but over 400 years of being Black in this country. Donald Trump needs to do something to bring all of us together, and you can’t tell me about racism or what it’s like to be Black in this country or to be brutalized by the police.”

Bolden has a point. Trump has confronted racial unrest by sending in jack-booted thugs to terrorize protesters, which causes more unrest than it solves.

Ellis’s response was of the “your mother wears army boots” variety.

“Well then Scott, why are you talking about Michelle Obama? She’s female, so if you’re going to say I can’t speak on Black issues, you can’t speak on women’s issues and you can’t respond to Michelle Obama as a woman,” she fired back. “That’s an invalid argument.”

But Bolden wasn’t having any of Ellis’s nonsense.

“I can agree with her that I am depressed too, and this president is a big part of that depression that at least 30 percent of America is feeling because of America’s instability,” he said. “It’s depressing. This president has no answers and we’re in the middle of a pandemic, and that’s why his numbers are in the negative about reelection.”

Indeed. Trump earned all of this all by himself. By doing nothing to ameliorate this devastating pandemic and by stirring the pot and making racial tensions in the U.S. worse than they had been in a long time.

It’s all on him. Really.

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