Jenna Ellis speaks with her attorney Franklin Houge after Ellis
plead guilty to a felony count of aiding and abetting false statements
and writings, inside Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s Fulton
County Courtroom, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. Ellis, an attorney
and prominent conservative media figure, reached a deal with
prosecutors Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, and pleaded guilty to a reduced
charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in
Georgia.(AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool)
ATLANTA
— Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded
guilty on Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald
Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she
looks back on that time with “deep remorse.”
Ellis, the fourth defendant in the case to enter into a plea deal
with prosecutors, was a vocal part of Trump’s reelection campaign in the
last presidential cycle and was charged alongside the Republican former
president and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering
law.
Ellis pleaded guilty to one felony count of aiding and abetting false
statements and writings. She had been facing charges of violating
Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and
soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer, both felonies.
She rose to speak after pleading guilty, fighting back tears as she
said she would have not have represented Trump after the 2020 election
if she knew then what she knows now, claiming that she she [sic] relied on
lawyers with much more experience than her and failed to verify the
things they told her.
“What I did not do but should have done, Your Honor, was to make sure
that the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true,”
the 38-year-old Ellis said.
The guilty plea from Ellis comes just days after two other
defendants, fellow attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, entered
guilty pleas. That means three high-profile people responsible for
pushing baseless legal challenges to Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 election
victory have agreed to accept responsibility for their roles rather than
take their chances before a jury.
She was sentenced to five years of probation along with $5,000 in
restitution, 100 hours of community service, writing an apology letter
to the people of Georgia and testifying truthfully in trials related to
this case.
Of interest, "she relied on
lawyers with much more experience than her and failed to verify the
things they told her." Perhaps - just perhaps - these two gentlemen fit that characterization:
Finally, in due respect for Donald J. Trump, his named co-defendants in Georgia, and for the extreme truth level and seriousness of his claims of having won the 2020 election while being defrauded from serving a second consecutive term by extensive voter fraud - music for the third of Trump lawyer critters saying, "Guilty."