Jenna Ellis, who was once an attorney for President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements in October 2023 and said she would cooperate with Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors in the state’s election subversion case against Trump and more than a dozen other defendants.
She was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/politics/jenna-ellis-fulton-county/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1208198441/jenna-ellis-georgia-guilty-plea
Ellis was “the fourth defendant to plead guilty in the broad racketeering case focused on efforts to keep then-President Donald Trump in office” after he lost the 2020 Presidential Election to Democrat Joe Biden, NPR reported.
The others included lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell and bail bondsman Scott Hall.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1208198441/jenna-ellis-georgia-guilty-plea
SEE KENNETH CHESEBRO,
SEE SIDNEY POWELL,
SEE SCOTT HALL,
Ellis expressed a sense of regret when addressing the court during her guilty plea.
“If I knew then what I knew now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this experience with deep remorse,” Ellis said.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/politics/jenna-ellis-fulton-county/index.html
Ellis surrendered to court officials at the Fulton County jail in August 2023 on charges she helped the former president and others in the effort to overturn the election results during the 2020 Presidential Election.
Ellis faced two charges in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis: violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer.
Trump hired Ellis to defend his baseless claim that he was denied re-election because of widespread fraud. Ellis did as she was told – even though she could present no evidence of voter fraud, widespread or otherwise. She went on television portraying herself as a constitutional expert – even though a New York Times investigation found nothing to support her comment.
She continued to appear in public without wearing a surgical mask – in violation of the Centers for Disease Control orders. She then tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a White House senior staff Christmas Party without wearing a mask.
https://www.axios.com/jenna-ellis-trump-lawyer-covid-2bab2624-0b25-4f47-a532-079fd2c392da.html
Four years earlier, Ellis opposed Trump’s candidacy for president by calling him, among other things, “an idiot,” who was “boorish and arrogant,” and a “bully” whose was a chronic liar.” She called his comments about women “disgusting” and said he was not a “real Christian.”
Trump.
Not a real Christian!
That’s inconceivable!
Ellis attacked Trump supporters in a Facebook post for not caring that he was an “unethical, corrupt, lying, criminal, dirtbag.”
In addition, she said his supporters cared nothing about the truth.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/kfile-jenna-ellis-2016-trump-comments/index.html
And yet she went to work for Trump and defended him without apology and without facts. This confirms the guiding philosophy of GOP recruitment: If a smart person and an idiot spend any significant time together, the idiot won’t get any smarter, but the smart person will become an idiot.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/kfile-jenna-ellis-2016-trump-comments/index.html
Bill Maher cautioned Ellis about using canned talking points during an interview on the television program Real Time With Bill Maher. Ellis nevertheless opened with one: “What all Americans should be concerned about is that every legal vote should be counted fairly and accurately.”
“Right away, you used a talking point there. ‘Legal vote.’ No one is contesting the idea that we are not wanting to count ‘legal votes,’” Maher fired back.
After Ellis repeated the far-fetched claim that Trump’s main motive for questioning the results of the election was to ensure that we can have “free and fair elections in this country,” Maher was incensed.
“But we do know that,” he said. “Your lawsuits are being laughed out of court. I mean, I’m sorry, I don’t want to make this a contentious interview. I’m just trying to present what is the truth.”
The Colorado Sun, a news outlet in Denver, ran a story that said that Ellis had been fired as a county prosecutor in Colorado in 2013 for repeatedly making “mistakes on cases the employer believes she should not have made,” and failing “to meet the employer’s expectations.”
Ellis finally found an employer in Trump that she could meet the expectations.
And then she was indicted, pleaded guilty, and faced national condemnation.
Who could have anticipated that?
