WATCH: Jenna Ellis Tearfully Throws Trump Under the Bus While Pleading Guilty to Felony in Election Case
Jenna Ellis, who previously represented former President Donald Trump in lawsuits pertaining to his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, is taking a plea deal in a Georgia case related to that attempt.
Ellis, Trump, and 17 other co-conspirators were charged with engaging in an illegal conspiracy to steal Georgia’s electoral votes from Joe Biden and throw them to Trump after Biden rightfully won them in 2020 by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in August.
The ex-attorney is pleading guilty to a count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. She will pay a $5,000 restitution and serve 5 years probation as part of her sentence.
BREAKING: Jenna ELLIS is taking a guily plea in Georgia for a count of “aiding and abetting false statements/writings.” pic.twitter.com/mQMmbMXtCG
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 24, 2023
The terms of Ellis’s plea deal are unclear at this time, but she was originally charged with racketeering, as well as asking a public official to violate their oath. She is the third ex-attorney who worked for or with former President Trump in 2020 to agree to a plea deal in the case, joining Sidney Powell and Kenneth Cheseboro.
In a tearful statement before the court on Tuesday, Ellis said she looked back on her actions with “deep remorse.”
That statement read:
Thank you, Your Honor, for the opportunity to address the court. As an attorney who is also a Christian, I take my responsibilities as a lawyer very seriously, and I endeavor to be a person of sound moral and ethical character in all of my dealings. In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, I believed that challenging the results on behalf of President Trump should be pursued in a just and legal way. 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, especially since my role involved speaking to the media and to legislators in various states. 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. In the frenetic pace of attempting to raise challenges to the election in several states, including Georgia, I failed to do my due diligence. I believe in and I value election integrity. 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. 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. Thank you.
It has been speculated that Ellis, Powell and Cheseboro may be working with prosecutors against Trump as part of their respective deals.
Watch Ellis plead guilty above via CNN.
