How many Trump lawyers must plead guilty for MAGA voters to see truth on election? | Opinion

Donald Trump’s legal dream team is dropping like flies.

Jenna Ellis, Trump’s former senior legal adviser, has now pleaded guilty to one count in case to overturn the 2020 election results. Ellis, the second attorney to flip on Trump is a devout Christian popular with his evangelical fanbase. Her plea should be a wake up call to MAGA voters. But it probably won’t be.

Ellis, a Colorado-based lawyer, pleaded guilty Monday to one felony charge of aiding and abetting false statements and writing in Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia. Ellis agreed to serve five years probation, pay $5,000 in restitution, and complete 100 hours of community service. She also had to write an apology letter to the state and testify at all legal proceedings involving the other people who were charged.

This is just a few days after another of Trump’s attorneys, Sidney Powell, also pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the Georgia election interference case against Trump. Powell was originally charged with seven felony charges and ended up pleading guilty to six misdemeanors. She was sentenced to six years of probation, a $6,000 fine and $2,700 in restitution and had to write an apology letter.

Ellis’ slow decline started earlier this year. In March, a Colorado judge censured her for misconduct. Ellis admitted that several statements she made after the 2020 election, specifically about the presidential election being stolen, were “misrepresentations.” She wound up admitting to 10 such misrepresentations, including that the 2020 election was stolen.

In an emotional statement to the judge in Georgia, Ellis blamed more experienced attorneys for giving her false information and claims that if she’d done more of the work herself, she would not have represented Trump and challenged the election results.

“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,” Ellis said. “What I did not do, but should have done was to make sure that the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true. In the frenetic pace in attempting to raise challenges in several states including Georgia I failed to do my due diligence.”

Ellis’ statement is a load of baloney and demonstrates just how Trump’s election conspiracies spread. Challenges to election procedures and counts were found to be lacking in multiple courts for years. Ellis had plenty of time to discover that the attorneys she claimed to rely on had given her bad information.

The fact is, Ellis stood firmly on Trump’s side, believing him and claiming the election results were fraudulent, happily spreading conspiracy theories to this end, until this exact moment. Then, when she’s about to face real consequences, she passed the buck, blamed others, and showed little actual remorse. She’s as bad as Trump.

As bizarre and infuriating as this is, Ellis’ statement doesn’t change reality: The 2020 election results stand. MAGA voters should see this now. But they probably won’t. The evangelical community that found camaraderie in Ellis’ Christian faith, should see this. But it won’t, either. Ellis, whose social media bio reads “A servant of Jesus Christ,” regularly posted Bible verses on X, formerly Twitter, when people would call her out for her election claims.

Claims of election conspiracy or fraud now runs so deep in the MAGA fanbase, it’s become a part of the DNA. Instead of supporting a one-time president who appointed a few solid Supreme Court Justices, or who upheld religious liberty, or even who liked to “talk tough” on Twitter, they’ve become a group of people who so vigorously believe Trump won the election, they can’t see the truth of the matter right in front of their faces — guilty lawyers and all.

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