Jenna Ellis smiled in her mugshot. The former Trump attorney who was indicted alongside him and 17 others over an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results even made the Fulton County booking photo her profile picture on Twitter. “Those who mock me, my former client, and my God want to see me break and they aren’t going to get that satisfaction,” she told The New York Times in August.
On Tuesday, through tears, Jenna Ellis accepted a plea deal from Georgia prosecutors. Five years probation and some community service in exchange for her truthful testimony against her co-defendants. While Ellis’ role in the upcoming trial remains an open-ended question, something else looms over her decision to flip on her former allies: the $216,431 crowdsourced by friends and Trump supporters to fund her legal defense.
If they were another group of people fighting for their freedom I’d say it’s awful how expensive it can be for a citizen to defend themselves from government charges. It can bankrupt you even if you got a pretty good chunk of change in the bank, just to prove you’re innocent.
No sympathy for these guys though. I’m angry that their plee deals are so lenient.
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If it helps, their testimony should be absolutely damning to Trump, and they only got such lenient sentences because of their value to the prosecution once they flipped.