Teddy Roosevelt relative joins mockery of Trump ‘elite strike force’ lawyer for misquoting his...

Teddy Roosevelt’s great grandson has mocked Jenna Ellis on Twitter, where the Trump campaign lawyer tried to defend her own misquoting of his famous ancestor this week.

Theodore Roosevelt V, an investment banker and managing director at Barclays, was responding to the Trump campaign lawyer’s claim that she misattributed words to the 26th US president because she “liked the ifea”, and not because the attribution was true.

Ms Ellis, whose defence of Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud have so far failed to overturn the election result despite the team being billed as “an elite strike force”, was widely derided for posting the fake Teddy Roosevelt remarks on Tuesday.