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Jenna Ellis' fatal error was peddling 'complete nonsense': Analysis

Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges related to her efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election on behalf of former President Donald Trump.

In an analysis for the Washington Post, Philip Bump pinpoints the fatal flaw that let to Ellis' legal downfall: Namely, she was peddling "complete nonsense."

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Jenna Ellis' plea is piling 'pressure on Rudy Giuliani to flip': Legal expert

Former Donald Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis made a plea deal with Fulton County, Georgia, on Tuesday – leading to questions about who is next.

Lawfare's Anna Bower pointed out the agreement includes five years of probation, community service, a public apology and the pledge that she will name names and testify for the prosecution. Among the people already mentioned by her is Rudy Giuliani.

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'Deep remorse': Jenna Ellis tearfully throws Trump and Giuliani under the bus in plea

A tearful Jenna Ellis implicated Rudy Giuliani and disavowed Donald Trump as she pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case.

The former Trump campaign lawyer delivered a statement in tears Tuesday at her Fulton County plea hearing, where she expressed regret for her work on behalf of the former president that was aimed at overturning his 2020 election loss, reported CNN.

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Jenna Ellis becomes latest Trump attorney to plead guilty

Jenna Ellis has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in the conspiracy to overturn Donald Trump's election loss in Georgia.

The former Trump campaign lawyer intends to plead guilty Tuesday to one count of aiding and abetting false statements, according to court documents obtained by WSB-TV.

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Trump reposts a meme threatening Black poll workers

Donald Trump is known for his online threats against judges, jurors, Democrats, lawmakers, veterans, soldiers, and more, but on Monday, he added Black poll workers to the list.

Among the things Trump reposted on his personal social media site "Truth Social" was a meme reading, "Start arresting the poll workers and watch how fast they tell you who told them to cheat," with a photo of two Black people sitting at a table wearing masks reading Biden/Harris 2020.

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Georgia judge urged to quash Trump co-defendant's mountain of subpoenas

Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee has scheduled a hearing to examine the validity of various subpoenas filed by attorneys for Harrison Floyd, the former leader of Black Voices for Trump, a co-defendant in the Georgia election racketeering case.

According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Tamar Hallerman, "In recent weeks, Floyd's attorneys have issued a flurry of requests ... Among their asks: images of all absentee ballots cast in Fulton County in the 2020 prez election and their envelopes + reports from Dominion, which makes GA's voting machines" — and attorneys for all of the agencies holding this information want McAfee to quash these subpoenas as inappropriate.

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Rudy Giuliani claims Biden administration is infiltrated by Iran: 'He's on Iran's side'

Rudy Giuliani has claimed that the Biden administration has been infiltrated by spies from Iran.

"Let's face it: He's on Iran's side and he's on Hamas' side. He is not on our side," Giuliani said about Biden during an appearance on Newsmax Sunday, according to Newsweek.

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Morning Joe busts Trump over his big lie about Sidney Powell

The co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" pounced on Donald Trump on Monday morning, calling him out for his lie over the weekend that attorney Sidney Powell was never his legal representative.

The embattled Powell took a plea deal last Thursday in Georgia, where she faced racketeering charges, and now will provide help to investigators, which led Trump on Sunday to try and put distance between himself and her.

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Ex-prosecutor predicts Ken Chesebro will turn into a witness in the federal case

Former Republican and Lincoln Project broadcaster Tara Setmeyer, and ex-prosecutor Renato Mariotti discussed Sunday who they think will fall next in the 19 co-defendants in Georgia.

Setmeyer was torn between Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis being the next to sell out former President Donald Trump.

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'Trump wanted me to be attorney general': Giuliani explains how he was nearly DOJ chief

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani revealed over the weekend that former President Donald Trump sought to make him attorney general even though he wanted to be secretary of state.

On his Sunday WABC broadcast, Giuliani complained about anti-Semites in the Department of State.

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Chesebro lawyer busted by MSNBC host for trying to whitewash his client's election crimes

During an appearance on MSNBC early Saturday morning, the attorney for former Donald Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro attempted to downplay his client's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and host Katie Phang was not having it.

Attorney Scott Grubman was on to discuss the plea deal his client agreed to that puts his client at the mercy of investigators working on the Georgia RICO case that swept up 19 defendants including the former president.

Speaking with Phang, the attorney tried to downplay Chesebro's part in the fake elector plot which led the MSNBC host to remind him his client just pleaded guilty to a felony charge in an effort to stay out of jail.

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"The RICO charge was dropped and so I think it's important to note that Mr. Chesbro did not plead guilty to RICO," Grubman told the host. "Mr. Chesebro pled guilty to conspiracy to commit a filing of false documents."

"While Mr. Chesebro was ready for trial, we were ready for trial, this was the best outcome. He is now home with his family and he can put this behind him," he added.

"Yes, but Scott, I have to push back -- your client pled to a felony," host Phang shot back. "He's the first one to have to plead to a felony thus far. And it's not just he pled to conspiracy to commit a filing of false documents. Let's dig a little bit deeper: he pled guilty, didn't plead no contest."

"He said I am guilty of count 15 of the indictment which implicates Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastmanin a conspiracy to file a fake elector certificate knowing that that was not true!" she elaborated. "So your client may have gotten a probationary deal, but at this stage, he has admitted that the big lie was a lie and that everything he was doing was not right."

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'He has direct evidence': Legal expert says Rudy Giuliani should be worried over new plea

Andrew Weissmann, former FBI general counsel and special counsel Robert Mueller's senior prosecutor, said that Kenneth Chesebro's copping to scheming to invent "fake electors" in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election spells trouble for Trump's inner circle.

"What he has pled to unlike what Sidney Powell pled to, is something that is core to the January 6th scheme," Weissman told Ali Velshi, who was filling in on Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell on Friday. "[Chesebro] has now admitted, as part of his guilty plea, that he was part of a scheme to defraud the voters of Georgia, to overturn their votes in the presidential election."

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'Trump is toast': Legal experts weigh in on significance of Georgia guilty pleas

Conservative lawyer Kenneth Chesebro became the third Donald Trump co-defendant to plead guilty in the Georgia racketeering case, and legal experts agree that's bad news for the former president and his allies.

Chesebro admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents, but will avoid prison time because he agreed to cooperate with investigators, which could move them closer to Trump and his inner circle including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman.

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