Colorado attorney Jenna Ellis, once a rising star in conservative politics, pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal with the Georgia prosecutor accusing President Trump of an election interference racketeering scheme.
In a tearful statement to the court, Ellis says her mistake was in believing the alleged evidence from more senior lawyers without determining for herself the truth of the matter.
Jenna Ellis is pleading guilty, crying and throwing Donald Trump under the bus in Georgia right now. pic.twitter.com/E4FuMViqYX
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 24, 2023
Is that even a real standard for lawyers, to determine whether their client is guilty or innocent before representing their case to a court?
How are guilty people supposed to get the representation that they are supposedly entitled to in this country if that is the case?
It just seems strange for lawyers to start going after lawyers for agreeing to represent clients to the best of their ability.
Ellis, a Longmont native, was a legal advisor on Trump’s 2019 campaign.
She pled guilty to one charge of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. Her sentence includes five years of probation, a $5,000 fine and 100 hours of community service.
Like lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro who also recently negotiated plea deals, Ellis will cooperate with prosecutors as the case moves forward against Trump.
PeakNation™ will recall that Chesebro was on Al Gore’s legal team when the former vice president claimed he was cheated out of the 2000 presidential win and the Democrats dragged out the election for weeks counting hanging chads on ballots until the Supreme Court finally settled the mess on Dec. 12.
Long story short, Chesebro was representing a Democrat presidential candidate trying to overturn the election results but didn’t face multiple indictments or criminal charges by Republican prosecutors, because that would have been absurd.
Trump told reporters he wasn’t worried about the plea deal, and his lead attorney Steve Sadow said Ellis’s plea casts doubt on the legitimacy of the racketeering charges against his client.
“For the fourth time, Fani Willis and her prosecution team have dismissed the RICO charge in return for a plea to probation,” he said. “What that shows is this so-called RICO case is nothing more than a bargaining chip for DA Willis.”
He also noted that Ellis pleaded guilty to a charge that wasn’t in the original indictment and doesn’t include Trump.
Meanwhile, the 9News vultures were scurrying about to make sure Ellis’s employer knew about the plea deal in the hopes she would get fired.
UPDATE: Colorado Christian University’s @jeffhunt says Ellis is no longer a Fellow because CCU ended the Volunteer Fellow program several weeks ago. Hunt declined to say if Ellis’ felony indictment played a role in that decision. #copolitics https://t.co/pX4nqKaIbY
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) October 24, 2023