In a Colorado disciplinary hearing, Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for Donald Trump who assisted in advancing his fraudulent claims over the results of the 2020 election, revealed that she distorted the evidence at least ten times as part of Trump’s desperate effort to overturn his defeat.
“Respondent made these misrepresentations on Twitter and on various television programs, including Fox Business, MSNBC, Fox News, and Newsmax,” Colorado’s top disciplinary judge Bryon Large wrote in a six-page opinion. “The parties agree that by making these misrepresentations, Respondent violated [a state attorney rule of conduct], which provides that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”
Jenna Ellis is the first lawyer among the three to admit that she distorted the fraud evidence
Ellis received a public reprimand from Large for her specified behavior.
Ellis is the most recent Trump legal representative to take part in the former president’s post-election efforts to be held accountable. Rudy Giuliani’s license was momentarily suspended, and he is presently awaiting the outcome of a bar discipline hearing in Washington, D.C. John Eastman is getting ready for Californian disciplinary action. Moreover, Jeffrey Clark is attempting to take the case to federal court while temporarily halting bar discipline actions against him in Washington.
Yet, Ellis is the first lawyer among the three to admit that she distorted the fraud evidence.
— On November 13, 2020, Ellis asserted that Hillary Clinton had not recanted the 2016 election.
— Ellis stated on November 20, 2020 that Trump’s campaign had proof of a “organized attempt in all of these states to shift votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, or to count them in secret.”
— Ellis stated on Fox on November 30, 2020, that Trump “won in a landslide.”
— According to Ellis, the Trump campaign discovered 500,000 illicit votes had been cast in Arizona on December 5, 2020.
There was no precedence for the case against Ellis, which was an effort to support a sitting president’s effort to destroy faith in the American democratic system, according to both Ellis’ counsel and the disciplinary attorneys pursuing the case against her.
Ellis wasn’t listed as Trump’s legal representative in any lawsuits contesting the election, according to Huge. But he also pointed out that Ellis acknowledged she had broken “her duty of candor to the public” with her actions.
“The parties agree that two aggravators apply — [Ellis] had a selfish motive and she engaged in a pattern of misconduct — while one factor, her lack of prior discipline, mitigates her misconduct,” Large determined.