DENVER (AP) — Colorado legal officials on Tuesday approved an agreement with Jenna Ellis, a onetime attorney for former President Donald Trump, barring her from practicing law in the state for three years after she pleaded guilty to helping Trump try to overturn the 2020 election.
Ellis tearfully pleaded guilty to felony charges of aiding and abetting false statements in Fulton County, Georgia, in October. She was one of 18 co-defendants of Trump who were charged in a sweeping case over the former president’s campaign to reverse President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Georgia.
Ellis was previously censured in Colorado for making false statements over the 2020 election, including that the election was “stolen” from Trump. Those falsehoods were part of a sustained campaign by Trump allies that helped lead to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The latest case was brought by Colorado legal authorities after Ellis’ Georgia plea. The case contends that Ellis “caused significant actual harm in a variety of ways. It undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election process.”
A Colorado native who occasionally practices in her home state, Ellis is based in Florida and could not immediately be reached for comment. She is the latest of a swath of people charged or disciplined for helping Trump try to overturn his 2020 loss.
Former Donald Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis is denouncing the ex-president for failing to give his co-defendants "one dime" after his criminal conviction in New York reportedly resulted in a fundraising windfall.
Ellis, who served on Trump's legal team during his ill-fated 2020 presidential campaign, lashed out at the former president in a series of posts to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday. She was responding to an article from right-wing news outlet The Post Millennial on Trump boasting that his campaign had raised $400 million since he became a felon last week.
Trump was the lone defendant in New York, where a jury found him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to boost his 2016 election chances by covering up hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Ellis was among 18 co-defendants indicted alongside Trump in the pending Fulton County, Georgia, election subversion case, while there are also two co-defendants in the former president's federal election subversion case.
"$400M reportedly raised. And still not ONE DIME given to anyone else indicted," Ellis wrote. "Incredible."
Ellis went on to insist that her complaint was not about herself, while lamenting that Trump's co-defendants "are going bankrupt" and claiming that former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had "spent everything he has on legal fees."
Newsweek reached out for comment to Trump's office via email on Friday.
Ellis is among four Trump co-defendants in the Georgia case who pleaded guilty to some charges last year after reaching agreements to cooperate with prosecutors. Fellow ex-Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell also took plea deals, as did bail bondsman Scott Hall.
While appearing in Fulton County court to plead guilty, Ellis said that she had "deep remorse" for her part in attempting to overturn Trump's loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.
"I failed to do my due diligence," Ellis said. "I believe in and I value election integrity. If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse."
Some Trump supporters who had donated to a legal fund for Ellis angrily demanded their money back after she pleaded guilty. A page to support Ellis' defense on the "Christian crowdfunding" website GiveSendGo had raised over $200,000 by the time she struck a deal with prosecutors.
Ellis was a supporter of the now-defunct Republican presidential primary campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. In recent X posts, she has mocked Trump for his disastrous speech at the Libertarian National Convention and his campaign's seemingly inflated attendance numbers for a New York City rally.
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