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.

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    MAGA diehards only like to see others get screwed over. When they get screwed over, the tears start to flow.

    Jenna Ellis is no Saint either. Here’s to hoping she’s disbarred right after she’s ostracized by everyone in her GOP party.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      When they get screwed over, the tears start to flow.

      Well, if they notice.

      • ddh
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        She didn’t even get what she justly deserved.

  • IHeartBadCode
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    Conservative podcast host Breanna Morello wrote on X that Ellis had “raised $216,431 on GiveSendGo by promising the American people she would fight for the truth,” and then “folded in just a few weeks.”

    “Will she refund her donors?” Morello asked. “Likely not. A grifter has to grift.”

    It’s astounding that they can be self-aware wolves and members of the face eating leopards at the same time. It’s like they all are just playing this game of Russian roulette hoping that they’ll be the last one standing, even though the six shooter has six bullets in it. “Surely it’ll get jammed or something this time!” splatters brains onto wall

    It reminds me of the COVID days where they would be like “surely I won’t get COVID and if I do this horse paste will save me” dies from fluid filling their lungs

    It has to be absolutely astounding in horrific ways to be a Republican these days. They just keep getting grifted and every time they’re like “surely this one won’t try to grift me!” has all money taken from them

    Just Wow.

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      You don’t drown inside yourself from yourself from covid.

      Your lungs rupture and are unable to uptake oxygen. You breathe like always, it just doesn’t matter, you can barely get any O².

      So you breathe faster. It becomes all you can do. You can’t even talk it’s so laborious, you just sit there, panting. Your chest on fire.

      And then the unthinkable happens. Something youve likely never experienced. The muscles involved in breathing are too tapped out to go on. You tell yourself to breathe, but your body starts not responding. And your breathing slows, your O² levels fall further. You take one last gasp with all your will to live, then pass out and die.

      It’s lonely; utterly tragic. A terrifying, miserable way to die.

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        Thank you for your excellent description of the totally not fun at all death that could be awaiting us if we don’t get those flu and COVID vaccines.

        It’s not even 9 AM and I’ve already had enough Internet for today.

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      Why doee trump keep hiring these grifters? The poor guy has such bad luck, literally everyone associated with him has turned out to be a liar or a grifter.

      If only there was some kind of correlation, some common factor that could help us understand why that is.

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      It’s astounding that they can be self-aware wolves and members of the face eating leopards at the same time.

      You forgot to include Herman Cain Award holders as well.

    • @asteriskeverything
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      There is none of that awareness though. I can understand to an extent as it is human nature to instinctively ignore uncomfortable truths that contradict deeply held beliefs, especially if those beliefs are part of your identity, AND maybe even you social standing with your peers.

      So yeah. Great targets.

    • Billiam
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      Where is your God now, Jenna?

      I dunno, probably sitting in a decrepit shit hole resort in Florida throwing ketchup on the walls.

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      Laughing as the judge read all the charges against her and she slowly realized how fucked she was.

    • @Treczoks
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      Where is your God now, Jenna?

      Maybe, for once, he led her back on the Right Way™.

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      The leopards ate well that day.

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    Ellis had “raised $216,431 on GiveSendGo by promising the American people she would fight for the truth,”

    If she now testifies properly, she has fulfilled her word. Fine with me.

    “Thank you, gullible idiots!” – Jenna Ellis

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    didn’t trump raise never surrender money before surrendering?

    • @pottedmeat7910
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      He literally put “Never Surrender” on tshirts with a photo taken after he surrendered in Georgia.

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        Some heartless shitbag PR wonk got a hard-on from selling those to the Trump masses.

        • @FakinUpCountryDegen
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          It literally funded his entire defense and a chunk of his campaign. It was the single dumbest thing the libtard dropouts could have possibly done. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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        He surrendered in the same way you surrender your wallet and watch at the TSA checkpoint at the airport.

        If you think “never surrender” has some implication beyond “fight the good fight, don’t just plead guilty, lay down, and die like a liberal dog”, your crippling neanderthal genes are showing.

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      Yeah but she did it vagina-havingly. How dare she.

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    The funniest thing about this is that a bunch of grifters convinced those idiots to give her money. Suckers.

    If I didn’t have any decency, I’d be a billionaire from how easy it is to get money from conservative voters. Pastors and politicians have been doing it to them for years. All anyone has to do is spout a bunch of bible shit and claim conservative. If anyone gets busted, they just have to cry, beg forgiveness, blame the devil, and say it was a liberal setup and they’d get more money. Easy pickings from people who are told they should vote against their own education and actually do it.

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      Honestly it’s getting harder and harder to keep myself from taking advantage of morons. Ethics are currently winning though.

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        For what it’s worth, they’re gonna give that money to somebody. It could either be you, who could put it to good use fighting these assholes, or it will be someone who will use their money to get more Republicans elected.

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    She was smiling in the mugshot and talking shit because she didn’t have a good lawyer telling her how fucked she was. They should have gotten her less money and a worse lawyer.

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      Lol, that’s how bad she is as a lawyer. She didn’t know how fucked she was

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        These people exist in all levels of employment in such “professional” positions and yet my dumb ass can’t convince myself that I’m capable of anything more than menial labor… It’s quite frustrating to see such “successful” idiots lol

        • Flying Squid
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          That’s how it works. You give the little fish plea deals so they turn on the big fish. Now she has to testify against Trump.

  • @jlewis
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    $216,431 wasted. Just imagine how many Trump car flags that could have bought.

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        The amount of right-wing propaganda on temu is so crazy, China is banking so hard off these rubes

  • @acceptable_pumpkin
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    How are all these people getting such ridiculously light punishments? Good that they’re going to “flip”, but give them 5 years in prison vs 20 for cooperating.

    • @hperrin
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      You gotta give them a real good incentive for them to turn against the guy who currently controls the entire GOP. Also, they’re small fries. Trump is the one that needs at least 20 years.

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        It’s also a very culty behaviour to hate apostates even more than nonbelievers.

        If the extremist freaks are going to target anyone with violence, it’s going to be the perceived “traitors” who “stabbed them in the back”.