Third Trump Henchman Pleads Guilty in Georgia Election Case

In professional wrestling, participants enter the ring to the tune of a walk-out song. Were we to ever adopt that trope for the legal profession, then the woman prosecuting Donald Trump in Georgia—Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis—should strut to Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust.”

Willis has collected yet another guilty plea in her sprawling racketeering case against Trump, this time from his lawyer-turned-henchman-turned-co-defendant Jenna Ellis. This is the third such plea from a third such figure in the past four days.

The first to fall was Sidney Powell; second was Kenneth Chesebro.

For her part in peddling Trump’s Big Lie, Ellis was known for fiery press conferences alongside Rudy Giuliani and others, as well as contentious interviews with critical media.

Like her leader/client, she often derided reporters as “fake news” and mocked demands by the public for evidence—once famously asserting that those who demand proof for claims “don’t understand the legal process.”

Moreover, as a prolific Tweeter, Ellis has a longstanding habit of taking to social media to litigate her grievances and claims.

After Willis indicted her in August, Ellis ironically Tweeted in September that she refused to be ashamed of her involvement with Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, proclaiming: “I’m innocent.”

The evidently not-at-all-innocent Ellis has pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements regarding dishonest claims of voter fraud.

The plea deal proposes no jail time and 5 years of probation, demanding from Ellis in return $5,000 in restitution, 100 hours of community service, a written letter of apology to Georgia citizens, and cooperation for the remainder of the case against her co-defendants—including Trump.

Footage of her tearful statement to the presiding judge has been made public. In it, Ellis claims she did not exercise “due diligence” to verify claims made by Trump and her fellow attorneys and proclaims that if she knew then what she knows now, she “would not have represented Donald Trump” in his election challenges.