The utterly bogus fourth indictment of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants under a ridiculous stretch of RICO law is clearly a case of Democrat Trump Derangement Syndrome combined with a strategy to win him the GOP nomination and then defeat him in the general election. Will it work? Who knows?

In any case, one of Trump’s primary flaws is throwing even the most loyal people under the bus the second they cross him. Such appears to be the case with one of his Georgia co-defendants. Hot Air’s David Strom explains:

Jenna Ellis has been a supporter of Donald Trump, representing him in the media since 2016. In 2019 Trump hired her as a senior legal advisor and then hired her as part of a team to fight for him after the 2020 election. …

Ellis was indicted along with Trump and a slew of his supporters, defenders, and the gardener who cut his grass in Georgia. I can’t speak to the quality of the indictments from a legal perspective, save for the fact that from a layman’s perspective, they seem overbroad and extremely … ambitious. It’s not often somebody gets indicted for suggesting that people watch a government hearing, although I must admit that if you have ever slogged through such a boring event it does resemble some forms of CIA “enhanced interrogation” techniques.

Ellis is being accused of being part of a massive conspiracy that was coordinated by and for the benefit of President Trump, and Trump’s PAC is going to be helping defray the legal expenses of Trump’s co-defendants … except Ellis.

Her sin, it seems, was expressing support for Ron DeSantis — even while defending Trump.

Strom correctly argues that Trump’s legal team really failed.

They managed to make serious charges look ridiculous, undermined the credibility of plausible charges of voter irregularities by throwing in ridiculous charges, and from all accounts took direction from a perpetually tipsy and incoherent Rudy Guiliani.

That, though, is ultimately Trump’s fault. As is so often the case he did a remarkably bad job of hiring people and got exactly what he paid for.

Still, I find Trump’s abandonment of Ellis and the joy that his supporters have for her being hung out to dry disgusting. Ellis has committed the ultimate sin, which is being a “traitor” to Trump by not being a full-throated supporter of his 2024 campaign.

Trump hires a lot of traitors, apparently, since almost everybody he has ever hired has been accused of being one at some point.

That list includes some outstanding people, from Mike Pence to John Kelly to Kayleigh McEnany. In this case, Strom notes, Ellis “could be in a position to turn on Trump in order to save her butt.” That makes it “supremely stupid” for Trump to “leave her hanging out to dry.”

He sums it up this way:

It is remarkable to me that so many people use the word “loyalty” and Trump in the same sentence. Trump is one of the least loyal people in politics.

Read the whole thing here.