Continuing the comparison of former President Trump to a Mob boss, Fulton County AG Fani Wilson is enjoying outstanding success in flipping Trump lawyers, or former lawyers, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro … and, now, the almost painfully Christian lawyer Jenna Ellis:
Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday in the Georgia election subversion case and will cooperate with Fulton County prosecutors – the third guilty plea in the past week.
At an unscheduled hearing in Atlanta, Ellis pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements, a felony stemming from the election lies that Ellis and other Donald Trump lawyers peddled to Georgia lawmakers in December 2020.
She was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution.
Ellis delivered a tearful statement to the judge Tuesday while pleading guilty, disavowing her participation in Trump’s unprecedented attempts to overturn the 2020 election. [CNN/Politics]
Along with the tactical information that these lawyers can provide to Wilson, there is also the moral implication that these lawyers, these defendants, recognized that their actions after the 2020 election were, in fact, illegal and, arguably, immoral. They were aiding the defeated-President in an effort to illicitly retain power.
And that’s not how we run this nation. Down that path lies riots and a descent from excellence to narcissism and third-raters and worse in charge of our nation. Look at Senator Tuberville (R-AL), former Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Cruz (R-TX), McConnell (R-KY), and all the others who’d rather destroy institutions, norms, and traditions than permit Democrats victories.
Or, in one compact form, go look at the House GOP. I don’t think there’s a smart or honorable one in the bunch.
