Posted on 10/24/2023 7:46:29 AM PDT by thegagline
A third attorney who falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen flipped Tuesday and agreed to cooperate in the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia — saying she had “deep remorse” for her actions.
Jenna Ellis, 38, tearfully said she “failed” to do “due diligence” on claims that the election was stolen through fraud in swing states including Georgia, where President Biden beat Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes — joining former Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro in also pleading guilty.
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“I believe in and I value election integrity,” she went on. “If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges.”
Ellis concluded through tears, “For those failures of mine, your honor, I have taken responsibility already before the Colorado bar, who censured me. And I now take responsibility before this court and apologize to the people of Georgia.”
Ellis is expected to receive a sentence of 5 years of probation, $5,000 in restitution and 100 hours of community service — in exchange for having no contact with the media or codefendants and cooperating and testifying at other trials in the 19-person RICO case including Trump.
“I relied on others, including lawyers with many more years of experience than I, to provide me with true and reliable information, especially since my role involved speaking to the media and to legislators in various states,” Ellis said in a Fulton County courtroom Tuesday.
“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.
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That is exactly the topic being discussed. It makes no sense why Fox would have settled other than to give Dominion political momentum to use against Trump's allies.
Dershowitz himself said it made no sense for Fox to settle the way they did. They had no liability.
No. It’s not the process.
Trump hasn’t pled guilty to anything
She has
He’s not guilty
She is
Can you give me an example of where Carson said something libelous about Dominion?
My recollection is that the best they could find was some email communications from the interviewers saying they didn't believe Sidney Powell, or some such.
So if you are going to allege that some of Fox's staff said libelous things, perhaps you can provide an example?
They knew what the consequences of not doing so was going to be.
In Stalin’s time, they kept track of people who denounced others, and those who had never denounced anyone. And then they would detain those who had never denounced anyone, and forced them to cough up some names, any names.
Now your next argument will be they libeled or slandered Trump. Trump, Biden, Obama et al are political public figures. They have less protection than you, I or Ruby Freeman or Dominion. What would stand for us being libeled or slandered would largely stand in court. Not so political public figures.
In the DC case as well as Georgia no one has stopped filings of evidence. Of course if you can show otherwise, I’m wide open.
“There’s no crying in politics.”
Unless you’re Hillary Clinton in 2016.(Smirk)
A young woman, time spent getting a law degree and having a successful career. Never been in any trouble... I believe she is a Christian.. Having the whole of the US corrupt government come at her..
Would put the fear in most..
She was working with the big guys.. They might be used to it..
I say all that to add.. As an attorney, in her position and belief, She should stay where she was and learn to fight.
She got in front of her skies on this back in 2020. I can imagine her exhilaration at challenging and possibly changing an election outcome. Especially if it represented maintaining your worldview. That was what the challenges were all about. They were more about what maneuvers, legal or otherwise, could we do to keep our guy. It was never really about the vote counts. She’s already admitted that. In her law license hearing, she said she knew the claims were wrong. If you watch closely, the legal maneuvering now is more we had the right to do what we did rather than we were looking to show an election that was fraught with fraud.
In a battle, if you are the only one playing fair.. You will lose.
In today’s society, honesty and loyalty are rare.
I have a lawyer son.. An honest one.
I don't believe that - any of that.
They are after Trump.. They don’t mind dragging others thru the mud.. Just to get DJT. They are corrupt and they don’t want Trump in charge..
I live in GA... Kemp and et al are anti Trump.. Kemp wants to be top dog... So taking Trump out gives him a notch..
I guess..
And yes, there are honest lawyers out there. Those who surrounded Trump weren’t part of that club. Trump and his team weren’t fighting an election integrity issue. Trump and his team were fighting to keep Trump in office, even when he lost.
“Trump and his team weren’t fighting an election integrity issue.”
I guess you miss those hundreds of hours of presentations and hearings — all focused specifically on election integrity.
I’m not saying there were no election irregularities. But it seems more clear they knew there was not sufficient issues to flip the results. Bu the fight seems to have been more about changing a result, the votes of people in individual states, and not whether there were election issues. In my state it seems that the issues have been Republican voters more than democrat voters violating the law.
It's a problem for them, it is not a problem for the people operating a broadcasting system. Else they would be liable for everything other people say.
It would be impossible for a broadcasting system to operate under a system like that.
What does evidence have to do with any court in DC or Atlanta? They didn't need any evidence to convict the J 6rs, so they won't need any evidence to convict Trump either.
You need to stop pretending these two jurisdictions resemble a normal legal system. They are more akin to Klan juries trying Negroes in the South. They have no credibility, and so far as I'm concerned, they need to be removed from any sort of power.
But you said “Are you kidding? You really haven't been keeping up with these election fraud cases. Judges won't let them file any evidence. They argue firstly "no injury yet", and then they argue "standing", and finally they argue "laches.”
You said evidence wasn’t allowed to be introduced. Now you’ve pivoted to with any DC or Atlanta court.
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