I'M SOOOOO SURPRISED (NOT!)

I told you you couldn’t get odds any more on this one.

This morning, Jenna Ellis became the fourth Trumper conspirator charged in the Georgia election fraud case to plead guilty, a move that adds to former president Donald Trump’s legal peril as he coasts to the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Ellis, one of the most high profile figures in the post-election media blitz aimed at cajoling state legislators and the conservative media into believing the lie that the election was stolen from Trump, admitted in an Atlanta court that “if I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this experience with deep remorse.”

Ellis pleaded guilty to one felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. She will not face any jail time. Ellis joins attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro as well as bail bondsman Scott Hall in pleading guilty.

As the Washington Post stated:

As part of their plea deals, Hall, Powell and Chesebro each recorded a lengthy video answering prosecutors’ questions about their roles and the roles of others in the alleged election interference conspiracy.

Ellis is the second co-defendant with known direct links to Trump to plead guilty in the case. A onetime Fox News regular who was hired in late 2019 as a legal adviser to the Trump campaign, Ellis was part of the post-2020 election legal team, appearing alongside [Rudy] Giuliani and pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell at press conferences where she echoed false claims of election fraud.

She worked closely with Giuliani, traveling to battleground states including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania where prosecutors say she spoke to lawmakers urging them to reject the popular vote results in their states. The Georgia indictment also pointed to memos she wrote for Trump outlining how Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the election results.

I am no lawyer but the way these prosecutions typically work is they turn the small fish to get to the medium fish in hopes of, eventually, getting to the big fish.

And given that Ellis did this because of financial pressure, I am going to go out on a limb here and predict that the other lawyer who has publicly complained about the financial pressure of having to defend himself on this will be next.

Yes indeed, the Mafia goon’s son….

Rodolfo Giuliani!

Another one where I am sure you can’t get odds on such a bet.

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