In 2020, Jenna Ellis was part of a group of Donald Trump lawyers who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election. She now realizes that she hitched her cart to the wrong wagon. This, of course, is what happens when you enter Trump world. It’s hard to shake off the immoral stench. There seems to be a larger lesson here for evangelicals who seek to advance their careers by cozying-up to power or try to change America through alignments with politicians.
The Jenna Ellis penance tour continued this week in Arizona.
Here is Steve Rabey at Baptist News Global:
Jenna Ellis, the Christian attorney who joined former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, agreed Aug. 5 to cooperate with Arizona’s attorney general. She pledged to “completely and truthfully” testify against her former partner, Rudy Giuliani.
Ellis, who once boasted she possessed plentiful evidence of election fraud and claimed her prosecution meant she was being “persecuted,” will no longer face nine felony charges in Arizona, according to The Washington Post...
In March 2023, Colorado’s Office of Attorney Regulation censured her. She then confessed to operating from a “selfish motive” while making “misrepresentations” with “a reckless state of mind.” She admitted her actions had “undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election,” violating her “duty of candor to the public.”
After her indictment in Georgia for aiding and abetting the conspiracy to overturn that state’s 2020 election results, she at first claimed, “The Democrats and the Fulton County (district attorney) are criminalizing the practice of law.”
She took a different approach in October 2023, when she pleaded guilty and said, “I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse.”Â
Her Georgia guilty plea resulted in a sentence of five years of probation and a $5,000 fine, plus 100 hours of community service, writing an apology letter to the people of Georgia and testifying “truthfully” in trials related to her case.
She now is aiding Georgia in that state’s case against Trump, Giuliani and others...
When she was working alongside Giuliani in 2020 and 2021, Ellis made extensive claims of election fraud on Trump’s behalf:
- “We know that the election was stolen from President Trump, and we can prove that.”
- “The election was stolen, and Trump won by a landslide.”
- “President Trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this election. We have at least six states that were corrupted.”
- “We have over 500,000 votes (in Arizona) that were cast illegally … “
Despite her guilty pleas, Ellis continues to hold on to her shows at Salem Podcast Network and American Family Radio. Such legal problems probably give her job security at these “Christian” media outlets.