Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, whose guilty plea last week made her the fourth Georgia co-conspirator to reach a deal with prosecutors, delivered a powerful disavowal of the "Big Lie" that could undercut Trump's defense, vault her to star witness status and fashion her into a "potent weapon" against his political goals, two legal experts argued in a Sunday op-ed for The New York Times.
Ellis in a statement to the court admitted that the claims of election fraud she parroted as part of the alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election were false. While two other plea deals — from Trump-aligned lawyer Kenneth Chesebro and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell — are important, former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen and criminal defense lawyer Amy Copeland write, "Ellis is in a unique position to aid prosecutors in the Georgia case and possibly even the parallel federal one — as well as Mr. Trump’s opponents in the court of public opinion."
