Flipperpallooza Twofer: Jenna Ellis Reaches Plea Deal in GA, Mark Meadows Reaches Plea Deal with Jack Smith
MAGA Diehards (i.e. Suckers and Rubes) Are Furious Jenna Ellis Pleaded Guilty After Raising $200K (rollingstone.com)Trump slams Meadows’ ‘immunity deal’ as Cohen showdown set to resume (independent.co.uk)With Plea Deals in Georgia Trump Case, Fani Willis Is Building Momentum (nytimes.com)Jenna Ellis could face further misconduct scrutiny in Colorado following plea deal (coloradonewsline.com)
First came this:
Jenna Ellis, a pro-Trump lawyer who amplified former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud as part of what she called a legal “elite strike force team,” pleaded guilty on Tuesday as part of a deal with prosecutors in Georgia.
Addressing a judge in an Atlanta courtroom, she tearfully expressed regret for taking part in efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
Ms. Ellis, 38, pleaded guilty to a charge of aiding and abetting false statements and writings, a felony. She is the fourth defendant to plead guilty in the Georgia case, which charged Mr. Trump and 18 others with conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Mr. Trump’s favor.
Just a few hours later, this happened:
Former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff in the White House, Mark Meadows, has spoken with special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times this year, including once before a federal grand jury, which came only after Smith granted Meadows immunity to testify under oath, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The sources said Meadows informed Smith’s team that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election that the allegations of significant voting fraud coming to them were baseless, a striking break from Trump’s prolific rhetoric regarding the election.
According to the sources, Meadows also told the federal investigators Trump was being “dishonest” with the public when he first claimed to have won the election only hours after polls closed on Nov. 3, 2020, before final results were in.
And in today’s bonus Trumpcrime action, America’s Favorite Fixer drops several reveals in Donald Trump’s New York civil case:
Mr Cohen provided damaging testimony that repeatedly tied his own actions, and the actions of all the employees at the Trump Organization, directly to Mr Trump.
Mr Cohen testified that he answered to Mr Trump, and Mr Trump alone.
“Whatever issues he had, whatever created ire for him, he would bring it to me in order to resolve it,” he told the court.
Later, he said Trump personally asked him and Allen Weisselberg, the convicted ex-chief financial officer of the company, to inflate his assets “arbitrarily” by a number he had chosen.
They did “whatever Mr Trump told us to,” Mr Cohen said.
STILL FLIPPIN’ DEVELOPING…