She made self-incriminating remarks in the third person?
Jenna Ellis is a young conservative lawyer who has parlayed her work and notoriety as part of President Trump’s 2020 legal team into a national
podcast show. The 65 Project filed a legal ethics complaint against Ellis in her home state of Colorado, demanding discipline—up to and including possible disbarment—for public statements she made defending President Trump and his campaign.
This week, Ellis caved. As part of a settlement agreement with the disciplinary authorities who control her law license, she admitted to spreading “misrepresentations” to the public by repeating claims that Trump had been cheated in the 2020 elections. In exchange, Ellis was merely censured for professional misconduct. Her life as a lawyer continues, albeit with a significant professional stain that undermines her future work and places an asterisk next to every future public statement she makes.
Ellis’ admissions should shock the MAGA faithful. They are very damaging to the Trump campaign and the MAGA movement. The Democratic Left will recite them forever.
As part of her
censure deal with the Colorado Supreme Court, Ellis admitted to making 10 “misrepresentations” by defending the Trump campaign’s criticisms of the 2020 elections. Ellis stipulated that her statements “undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public.” Also, she agreed that she had “selfish motives” for making these allegations.
To finesse her surrender, Ellis has resorted to the same sort of spin control we’re used to seeing from RINO politicians. “They’re now trying to falsely discredit me by saying I admitted I lied,” Ellis
tweeted. “That is FALSE. I would NEVER lie. Lying requires INTENTIONALLY making a false statement. I never did that, nor did I stipulate to or admit that.” She noted that the standard she admitted to violating involves “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, OR misrepresentation.”
Obviously, this is splitting hairs. The difference between recklessly “making misrepresentations” and lying is a distinction only a Clinton could appreciate. Either way, the Trump campaign is left hung out to dry. Besides, all of her statements offered in self-defense can no longer be taken at face value because they come from someone who just admitted making numerous “misrepresentations” for “selfish” reasons (see how this will haunt her credibility hereafter?).
The bottom line? In addition to more specific concessions, Ellis admitted to misleading Americans essentially and merely by seconding Trump’s argument that the 2020 elections were fundamentally not on the up and up. To placate the legal demons threatening to confiscate her livelihood, she said she misled Americans by saying what most Republicans believe but leftist-dominated institutions deny: that there were serious, election-affecting irregularities plaguing the final vote tallies in 2020.
Ellis has further played the RINO by taking
shots at Kari Lake, even arguing that Lake should not pursue her appeal in the Arizona Governor’s race, despite many serious and well-documented concerns over the conduct of the state’s elections in 2022.
Trump Election Lawyer Chooses Self over MAGA
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