In the 2020 election, President Donald J. After Trump’s defeat, attorney Jenna Ellis, who represented him, admitted in a sworn statement released Wednesday that he knowingly misrepresented the facts in several of his public statements that led to widespread voter fraud. failure
Mrs. Ellis’s admissions were part of an agreement to accept public scrutiny and settle disciplinary proceedings brought against him by State Bar officials in his home state of Colorado. Last year, authorities began investigating Ms. Ellis after a complaint by the bipartisan legal watchdog Project 65. Mr. The group accused Trump of professional misconduct in his efforts to publicize his claims of voter fraud and mount “a concerted effort to alter the results of the legitimate 2020 presidential election.”
According to the report, Ms. Some of Ellis’ lies about election fraud were made when he appeared on Fox News, where several of their top hosts and executives recently accused Mr. Revelations of these discrepancies have emerged in a court series involving voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems, which filed a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox for promoting a conspiracy theory about its role in election results.
Mr. Part of an elite strike force of lawyers who flew across the country in support of Trump’s false fraud claims, Ms. Ellis has been embroiled in a Justice Department investigation into the former president’s extensive efforts. Joseph R. As part of the investigation — which was taken over by special counsel Jack Smith in November — to reverse the loss to Biden Jr., dozens of grand jury subpoenas have been issued, many of them against Ms. Information about Ellis has been requested. .
A news Posted on Twitter on Thursday morning, Mrs. Ellis has tried to split hairs over his deal with officials in Colorado, insisting he never admitted to lying about election fraud and that it required “intentionally making a false statement.”
But in his stipulation with bar officials, he acknowledged that lawyers are subject to censure when they “knowingly” engage in dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.
“Ms. Ellis appears to be continuing a pattern of misrepresentations and falsehoods,” Michael Teter, executive director of the 65 Project, said Thursday. “If she continues in this way, it won’t be long before she is subject to further disciplinary action.”
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He is Mr. When she joined Trump’s legal team, Ms. Ellis preferred to describe herself as a “constitutional lawyer,” although a review of her professional history by The New York Times, as well as interviews with a half-dozen lawyers who worked with her, showed she was not the seasoned constitutional lawyer she claimed to be.
As part of his public audit, Mr. Ms. Ellis acknowledged that the legal work for Trump “has done real harm by undermining the confidence of the American people in the presidential election.” “A selfish motive” and “misconduct” were aggravating factors in the case, bar officials said in the report.
Mr. During his work for Trump, Mr. Within weeks of Biden’s election call, Ms. Ellis admitted to 10 misrepresentations of the facts.
For example, on November 20, 2020, on Maria Bardiromou’s show on Fox Business, Mr. Trump’s legal team described the evidence they gathered to support their fraud claims.
“We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation,” he lied on Ms. Barthiromo’s show, “we have fraudulent ballots, we have all kinds of statistics that show this is a concerted effort in all of these states. Switching votes from Trump to Biden, manipulating votes. , counting in secret.
Two weeks later, Mrs. Ellis appeared on Jeanine Brough’s show on Fox and accused Mr. Trump’s legal team announced the discovery. He admitted in a statement on Wednesday that this claim was also false.
