Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia case | CNN Politics
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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.

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.

  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Is there a specific legal definition for "disavow"? Because the lay definition is along the lines of "has no knowledge/approval of", which is a weird thing to say when also pleading guilty.

    • elliot_crane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The definition I got (wherever Siri gets hers from) is “deny any responsibility or support for”. By pleading guilty she’s implicitly taking responsibility so I’m guessing the operative “or support” is working its ass off in this case.