In the 2020 election, President Donald J. Attorney Jenna Ellis, who represented Trump after his defeat, admitted in a sworn statement released Wednesday that she knowingly misrepresented the facts in several of his public claims that led to widespread voter fraud. failure
Mrs. Ellis’s admissions were part of an agreement to accept public scrutiny and settle disciplinary proceedings brought against him by State Bar officials in his home state of Colorado. Last year, authorities began investigating Ms. Ellis after a complaint by the bipartisan legal watchdog Project 65. Mr. The group accused Trump of professional misconduct in his efforts to publicize his claims of voter fraud and mount “a concerted effort to alter the results of the legitimate 2020 presidential election.”
According to the report, Ms. Some of Ellis’ lies about election fraud were made when he appeared on Fox News, where many of their top hosts and executives recently accused Mr. Revelations of these discrepancies have emerged in a court series involving voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems, which filed a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox for promoting a conspiracy theory about its role in election results.
Mr. Part of an elite strike force of lawyers who flew across the country in support of Trump’s false fraud claims, Ms. Ellis has been embroiled in a Justice Department investigation into the former president’s extensive efforts. Joseph R. As part of the investigation — which was taken over by special counsel Jack Smith in November — to reverse the loss to Biden Jr., dozens of grand jury subpoenas have been issued, many of them against Ms. Information about Ellis has been requested. .
A news Posting on Twitter Thursday morning, Ms. Ellis tried to split hairs over her deal with officials in Colorado, saying she never admitted to lying about election fraud.
But in his stipulation with bar officials, he acknowledged that lawyers who “knowingly engage” in “dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” deserve censure.
“It appears that Ms. Ellis continues to engage in knowing misrepresentations and falsehoods,” Michael Teter, executive director of the 65 Project, said Thursday. “If she continues in this way, it won’t be long before she is subject to further disciplinary action.”
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He is Mr. When she joined Trump’s legal team, Ms. Ellis preferred to describe herself as a “constitutional lawyer,” though The New York Times reviewed her professional history, as well as interviews with half a dozen attorneys. Working with him showed that he was not the seasoned constitutional lawyer he claimed to be.
As part of his public audit, Mr. Ms. Ellis acknowledged that the legal work for Trump “did real harm by undermining the American public’s confidence in the presidential election.” “A selfish motive” and “misconduct” were aggravating factors in the case, bar officials said in the report.
Mr. Within weeks of Biden’s election call, Mr. During her work for Trump, Ms. Ellis admitted to misrepresenting 10 facts.
For example, on November 20, 2020, on Maria Bardiromou’s show on Fox Business, Mr. He explained the evidence Trump’s legal team had gathered to support their fraud claims.
“We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation,” he lied on Ms. Barthiromo’s show, “we have fraudulent ballots, we have all kinds of statistics that show this is a concerted effort in all of these states. Switching votes from Trump to Biden, manipulating votes. , counting in secret.
Two weeks later, Mrs. Ellis, appearing on Jeanine Brough’s show on Fox, said more than 500,000 votes in Arizona were “illegally cast” by Mr. Trump’s legal team announced the discovery. He admitted in a statement on Wednesday that this claim was also false.
