‘Stunning To Hear The Tears!’ CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Maggie Haberman Roast Trump Co-Defendant Jenna Ellis For Outburst

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman roasted Jenna Ellis over her tearful guilty plea expressing “regret” for her work on behalf of former President Donald Trump.

Ellis — a former Trump lawyer who is now one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election crimes case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — broke down in tears Tuesday as she entered a stunning guilty plea to a single felony count.

On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Haberman and CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig were Collins’s guests to discuss the case, and neither the host nor Haberman expressed much sympathy for the display of emotion, with Haberman noting that “regret” is “a different thing than remorse”:

JENNA ELLIS: I endeavored to represent my client to the best of my ability. I relied on others, including lawyers, with many more years of experience than I, to provide me with true and reliable information.

If I knew then, what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump, in these post-election challenges. I look back, on this whole experience, with deep remorse.

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COLLINS: I mean, Maggie, as someone who read her tweets, watched her appearances?

HABERMAN: Right.

COLLINS: It’s kind of stunning to hear the tears, today.

HABERMAN: I suspect she has deep regret, which is sort of a different thing than remorse.

But yes, what she was saying, for a very long time was that, Donald Trump was in the right, and that he was going to be shown right.

And there was a point, when she stopped saying that, in around 2021, and that was when Trump was starting to tell people, that he was going to be reinstated. And she had a break with him, around that.

But she was one of the biggest proponents around this. She was traveling with Rudy Giuliani, to these hearings.

And, there have been two other lawyer pleas, ahead of her, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, in Georgia. She’s the one, who actually really had the most contact with Trump. And she had the most contact with Giuliani. And so, I think that she is actually in a very different position, than they are, to talk about so much of this.

COLLINS: How bad is this for Donald Trump?

HONIG: Well, so I think Maggie hit on exactly the main point, I want to know, as a prosecutor is, which is, what was her dealings with Donald Trump?

HABERMAN: Yes.

HONIG: What were those conversations? We really don’t have a great sense of that. I mean, it is notable to see her. She was so aggressive in pushing the election fraud lie. I think you can see the contrast in that clip. And it’s notable that she’s now saying, “That was BS. And I now know it.”

HABERMAN: Right.

HONIG: But the key to me? That’s fine. That’s interesting, atmospherically. But what were those one-on-one conversations with Trump?

HABERMAN: Right.

HONIG: That’s what I want to know.

COLLINS: Yes. Well, prosecutors may soon know that.

HONIG: Yes.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.