Former Trump lawyer calls Pete & Chasten Buttigeig “sexual perverts” because they’re gay

Former Trump legal advisor Jenna Ellis called out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten Buttigieg “sexual perverts” because they adopted two children.

Ellis was responding to a tweet from someone who said he was “saddened” that Mike Pence mocked Buttigieg with a gay joke for taking time off from work to care for his sick child.

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Jenna Ellis, member of the “elite task force” behind Trump’s electoral coup attempt, thinks LGBTQ people are “vile and abominable.”

“This is Pete Buttigieg and his family, [heart emoji] if you support them!” the Twitter user wrote.

“This isn’t a family,” Ellis responded. “It’s two sexual perverts and a child that deserves an actual family: a mom and a dad.”

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“Children’s rights matter. Kids are not commodities,” she wrote, likely a reference to how the Buttigieges adopted their twins.

She should lose her account for this. Bigotry is not an opinion. It’s violence. pic.twitter.com/PVlYmvU0VT

— Renee (@PettyLupone) March 17, 2023

She got pushback on Twitter.

Since you're so concerned about two people raising a child you don't have to take care of, how many kids have you adopted, exactly?

— Melik Abdul (@MelikAbdul_) March 16, 2023

@JennaEllisEsq , luckily in America you are allowed your opinion. I want you to know having a "mom and dad" doesnt mean a healthy family. I had what you define as a "proper" family, however, i was beat, burned, and shot at as a child. Those two love their child and that is what… https://t.co/ykrS06iDce

— Rich from CA (@TheRichFromCali) March 16, 2023

Fuck off, you worthless, drooling bigot.

— Dennis Perkins (@DennisPerkins5) March 17, 2023

WTF is wrong with you?

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) March 17, 2023

They seem much happier than you.

For obvious reasons.

— John Collins (@Logically_JC) March 17, 2023

Hate is all you know and what you sell. FYI Jesus was a single man at 33, unheard of at that time, who called John his “best beloved” and traveled with 12 young men. He never said a word against homosexuality. He may have been gay.

— Amy Holden Jones (@aholdenj) March 17, 2023

You're almost 40, single, and childless. Spend less time worrying about other people's happy, loving families and get your own stuff in order.

— The Biden Accomplishments Guy™ (@What46HasDone) March 16, 2023

Cry harder. pic.twitter.com/sb58qRULWU

— Mimsy 🥤 (@MimsyYamaguchi) March 17, 2023

This seems to be happy and loving family. Two men who love each other very much decided they wanted to raise a child together, there is nothing wrong with that. They are not sexual perverts.

— Malcolm Davis 🇺🇸 (@MalcolmDavisGA) March 16, 2023

They ARE a family and you are a hate filled bigot. That is a true statement not this nastiness and venom you are spewing.

— #JoeMama🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🌻 (@Mama4Obama1) March 17, 2023

You were the lawyer for a real sexual pervert, Donald J Trump, who told anyone who would listen how much he wanted to rut his own daughter.
How's your husband?
Oh wait.
Splitsville?
So do your children only have a serial lying fake Christian fart cushion as a parent?

— No Labels/Forward Party are GOP enabling trash (@matryoskadoll) March 17, 2023

Twitter has already blocked her tweet in at least some countries that regulate hate speech online, like France.

Two weeks ago at the Gridiron Club dinner, Pence said that Buttigieg went on “maternity leave” in 2021 when his two kids were born.

“Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression,” Pence joked.

Chasten Buttigieg responded with a picture of one of his kids, born premature, being held by Pete Buttigieg.

“An honest question for you, Mike Pence, after your attempted joke this weekend,” Chasten Buttigieg wrote. “If your grandchild was born prematurely and placed on a ventilator at two months old – their tiny fingers wrapped around yours as the monitors beep in the background – where would you be?”

Ellis was announced as a member of Trump’s legal team in 2020. Before that she presented herself as a “constitutional law attorney” in TV appearances even though she had never taken any federal cases and worked as a deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colorado, from 2012 to 2013 generally working on traffic cases.

She was fired from that job six months in and went into private practice before joining the faculty of Colorado Christian University. She taught undergraduate classes and self-published a book called The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution: A Guide for Christians to Understand America’s Constitutional Crisis.

Ellis has supported conversion therapy in the past and claimed that the Respect for Marriage Act – which requires the federal and state governments to respect same-sex and interracial marriages performed in other states – would end marriage equality entirely somehow.

She has argued that same-sex marriage will lead to pedophilia, which was perhaps a precursor to her calling the Buttigieges “sexual perverts” with no evidence other than their sexualities.