The garbage media is hyperventilating over reporting that former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis admitted to lying about the 2020 election in a sworn affidavit that was released today.
They are claiming she lied on multiple occasions about the 2020 election and that she agreed to this and accepted public censure.
But Jenna Ellis quickly defended herself on Twitter and said she NEVER agreed to anything that said she lied or made false statements regarding the 2020 election.
Here’s part of her tweet:
The politically-motivated Left failed miserably in their attempt to destroy me. They’re now trying to falsely discredit me by saying I admitted I lied.
That is FALSE. I would NEVER lie. Lying requires INTENTIONALLY making a false statement.
I never did that, nor did I stipulate to or admit that.
As has become sadly typical, the opposition-controlled media is intentionally twisting the truth, conflating the full RPC standard with the actual stipulation. The standard reads, “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, OR misrepresentation.”
The Colorado bar counsel and my counsel concluded that it was best to resolve the bar complaints by agreeing to a public censure.
CBN News clarifies this for us a bit more.
Here’s what they wrote today about what she agreed to in accepting the public censure:
Former Trump attorney and outspoken Christian conservative Jenna Ellis was publicly censured Wednesday by a Colorado judge for comments made surrounding the contested 2020 presidential election.
The Honorable Bryon M. Large, who serves as Colorado’s Presiding Disciplinary Judge, said Ellis, “repeatedly made misrepresentations on national television and on Twitter, undermining the American public’s confidence in the 2020 presidential election.”
However, despite her legal team’s acknowledgment of misrepresentations, the stipulation documents reviewed by CBN News show that there was no agreement by Ellis to fraud, dishonesty or deceit, which has been falsely reported by several news outlets.
I don’t know the details of the misrepresentations her legal team acknowledged, but CBN News makes clear she never agreed to fraud, dishonesty or deceit in her stipulation documents.
On this point CBN News writes:
“While Ellis’s legal team believes she could have been clearer during certain media appearances regarding the difference between her opinion and the legal proceedings at the time, she was never the attorney of record on any of the pending cases at the time.”
So why did she accept public censure? CBN News tells us:
A source close to the case says her team agreed to the public censure knowing full well she wouldn’t be able to get a fair trial in a liberal blue state like Colorado.
The larger point here is that the group that filed the complaint against Ellis was trying to get her disbarred. And they failed at doing so.
CBN News suggests this group, the 65 Project, has a bunch of lawyers working for them who hate former President Trump:
The legal action was brought by the controversial 65 Project, a group made up of many lawyers and politicians who have publicly stated their opposition to Donald Trump. They have been seeking penalties, such as suspension and disbarment against attorneys who they say made dubious election claims.
And one last point that I want to make. The Post Millenial tells us a bit more about this judge in the case, who they say is ‘woke’:
Ellis accepted the censure, which was handed down by Presiding Disciplinary Judge Byron M. Large, who has a plaque featuring his pronouns in his courtroom.
They have a photo showing him standing next to his name plate with the pronouns ‘he/him’ on top of it.
Ellis was probably right to accept censure instead of trying to fight this in a woke Colorado court.