More on the censure of Trump lawyer and evangelical pundit Jenna Ellis

As I wrote last night in this post, Jenna Ellis rarely tweets without claiming that she is a great defender of truth. She has built a platform on defending Donald Trump and contesting the 2020 election and now she had admitted that much of this platform is based on lies.

Today she is complaining about attacks from “the Left” and defrocked MAGA priest Frank Pavone is defending her:

So either Ellis deliberately lied or is simply just incompetent. Whatever the case, a Colorado judge has censured her. But at least God is on her side:

So let’s look at the primary documents here. I read the Supreme Court of Colorado’s discipline proceeding in the Ellis case so you don’t have to.

It begins:

While serving as a senior legal advisor to the then-President of the United States and as counsel for his reelection campaign, Jenna Lynn Ellis (“Respondent”) repeatedly made misrepresentations on national television and on Twitter, undermining the American public’s confidence in the 2020 election. The parties stipulate that Respondent’s misconduct warrants public censure, and the Presiding Disciplinary Judge (“the court”) approves the parties’ stipulation.

As part of the censure proceedings, Ellis admitted to ten “misrepresentations”:

1. On November 13, 2020, she claimed that “Hillary Clinton still had not conceded the 2016 election.” Jenna either outright lied here, or simply did not know this basic fact.
2. On November 20, 2020, Ellis appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show and stated, “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation, we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.” Again, Ellis admits now that this was not true.
3. On November 20, 2020, Ellis appeared on the Newsmax show “Spicer & Co.” and said, “with all those states [Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia] combined we know that the election was stolen from President Trump and we can prove that.”
4. On November 21, 2020, Ellis tweeted: “…we will present testimonial and other evidence IN COURT to show this election was STOLEN!”
5. On November 23, 2020, Ellis appeared on the Ari Melber Show on MSNBC and said, “The election was stolen and Trump won in a landslide.”
6. On November 30, 2020, Ellis appeared again on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show and said, “President Trump is right that there was widespread fraud in their voting systems…We know that President Trump won in a landslide.” She added: “The outcome of this election is actually fraudulent, it’s wrong, and we understand than when we subtract all the illegal ballots, you can see that President Trump actually won in a landslide.”
7. On December 3, 2020, Ellis appeared again on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show and said, “The outcome of this election is actually fraudulent it’s wrong, and we understand when we subtract all the legal ballots, you can see that President Trump actually won in a landslide.”
8. On December 5, 2020, Ellis appeared on the “Justice with Judge Jeanine” show on Fox News and said, “We have over 500,000 votes [in Arizona] that were cast illegally…”
9. On December 15, 2020, Ellis appeared on the “Greg Kelly Reports” show on Newsmax and said, “The proper and true victor, which is Donald Trump.”
10. On December 12, 2020, Ellis tweeted: “I spent an hour with @DanCaplis for an in-depth discussion about President @realDonaldTrump’s fight for election integrity, the overwhelming evidence proving this was stolen, and why fact-finding and truth–not politics–matters!”

The Court noted: “The parties agree that by making these misrepresentations,” Ellis violated a Colorado law “which provides that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct involving dishonest, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.” In other words, Ellis admitted that she misrepresented the truth by making these statements. The Court continues: “Respondent [Ellis] and the People agree that Respondent [Ellis] made ten representations on Twitter and to nationally televised audiences in her capacity as personal counsel to the then-President of the United States and as a counsel for his reelection campaign. The parties agree that Respondent [Ellis] made these statements, which violated Colo. RPC 8.4(c), with at least a reckless state of mind….The parties agree that Respondent [Ellis], through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public.

One can only imagine what role Ellis’s lies played in putting the country through this:

I am continually reminded of this Ellis tweet:

Jenna Ellis is here for the facts.

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