2023-10-25 10:18:45
In Atlanta, a fourth lawyer for Donald Trump turned against him on Tuesday and pleaded guilty, weakening the former president’s defense.
A lawyer, member of Donald Trump’s team accused by the Georgia courts of having participated in the attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 election in that state, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Atlanta and could now testify against the former president of the United States.
Jenna Ellis, 38, is the 4th person, out of the 19 defendants in the caseto find a guilty plea agreement with the courts, so many defections which weaken the defense of the Republican, candidate for the American presidential election in 2024.
In a court document, she admitted to helping the lawyers leading the team, including Rudy Giuliani, submit false documents to the Georgia state senate, with the prospect of reversing the result of the presidential election in this southern state, in favor of Donald Trump. In doing so, “I failed to do my job properly,” she said in a statement Tuesday morning.
Trump’s defense weakened
“I believe in the integrity of elections. If I knew what I know now, I would have refused to represent Donald Trump in these post-election proceedings.”
In tears in the courtroom, according to a television broadcast, Jenna Ellis declared, “as a lawyer and as a Christian,” thatshe should have ensured that the facts she then put forward “were, in reality, true”. “I believe in the integrity of elections. If I knew what I know now, I would have refused to represent Donald Trump in these post-election proceedings,” she said, standing in an Atlanta courtroom. .
“I look back on this entire moment with great remorse,” she said. His agreement with the courts spares him a possible prison sentence: she is now sentenced to 5 years of suspended sentence with probation, 100 hours of community service and must pay $5,000.
In total, 19 defendants including Mr. Trump are named in the indictment issued on August 14 under a Georgia law on organized crime used by prosecutor Fani Willis.
Last week, the former president’s other lawyers, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell (whom Mr. Trump denies was his counsel), pleaded guilty in this case. A first defendant, Scott Hall, had already pleaded guilty at the end of September.
This 4th guilty plea procedure in Georgia comes on the same day as the expected confrontation in New York, in a very different case, in civil and real estate matters, between Donald Trump and Michael Cohen, also a former lawyer for the Republican billionaire who chose to testify against him.
The date of the trial in Atlanta is not yet known.
The former president, leading the race in the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential election, is targeted by several legal proceedings, including a federal trial starting March 4 in Washington for trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.
The former president denounces his legal troubles as so much “electoral interference” at the instigation of the Biden administration to exclude him from the race for the White House.
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