Jenna Ellis smiled in her mugshot. The former Trump attorney who was indicted alongside him and 17 others over an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results even made the Fulton County booking photo her profile picture on Twitter. “Those who mock me, my former client, and my God want to see me break and they aren’t going to get that satisfaction,” she told The New York Times in August.

On Tuesday, through tears, Jenna Ellis accepted a plea deal from Georgia prosecutors. Five years probation and some community service in exchange for her truthful testimony against her co-defendants. While Ellis’ role in the upcoming trial remains an open-ended question, something else looms over her decision to flip on her former allies: the $216,431 crowdsourced by friends and Trump supporters to fund her legal defense.

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    MAGA diehards only like to see others get screwed over. When they get screwed over, the tears start to flow.

    Jenna Ellis is no Saint either. Here’s to hoping she’s disbarred right after she’s ostracized by everyone in her GOP party.

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    Conservative podcast host Breanna Morello wrote on X that Ellis had “raised $216,431 on GiveSendGo by promising the American people she would fight for the truth,” and then “folded in just a few weeks.”

    “Will she refund her donors?” Morello asked. “Likely not. A grifter has to grift.”

    It’s astounding that they can be self-aware wolves and members of the face eating leopards at the same time. It’s like they all are just playing this game of Russian roulette hoping that they’ll be the last one standing, even though the six shooter has six bullets in it. “Surely it’ll get jammed or something this time!” splatters brains onto wall

    It reminds me of the COVID days where they would be like “surely I won’t get COVID and if I do this horse paste will save me” dies from fluid filling their lungs

    It has to be absolutely astounding in horrific ways to be a Republican these days. They just keep getting grifted and every time they’re like “surely this one won’t try to grift me!” has all money taken from them

    Just Wow.

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      You don’t drown inside yourself from yourself from covid.

      Your lungs rupture and are unable to uptake oxygen. You breathe like always, it just doesn’t matter, you can barely get any O².

      So you breathe faster. It becomes all you can do. You can’t even talk it’s so laborious, you just sit there, panting. Your chest on fire.

      And then the unthinkable happens. Something youve likely never experienced. The muscles involved in breathing are too tapped out to go on. You tell yourself to breathe, but your body starts not responding. And your breathing slows, your O² levels fall further. You take one last gasp with all your will to live, then pass out and die.

      It’s lonely; utterly tragic. A terrifying, miserable way to die.

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        Thank you for your excellent description of the totally not fun at all death that could be awaiting us if we don’t get those flu and COVID vaccines.

        It’s not even 9 AM and I’ve already had enough Internet for today.

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      Why doee trump keep hiring these grifters? The poor guy has such bad luck, literally everyone associated with him has turned out to be a liar or a grifter.

      If only there was some kind of correlation, some common factor that could help us understand why that is.

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      It’s astounding that they can be self-aware wolves and members of the face eating leopards at the same time.

      You forgot to include Herman Cain Award holders as well.

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      There is none of that awareness though. I can understand to an extent as it is human nature to instinctively ignore uncomfortable truths that contradict deeply held beliefs, especially if those beliefs are part of your identity, AND maybe even you social standing with your peers.

      So yeah. Great targets.

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    Ellis had “raised $216,431 on GiveSendGo by promising the American people she would fight for the truth,”

    If she now testifies properly, she has fulfilled her word. Fine with me.

    “Thank you, gullible idiots!” – Jenna Ellis

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    The funniest thing about this is that a bunch of grifters convinced those idiots to give her money. Suckers.

    If I didn’t have any decency, I’d be a billionaire from how easy it is to get money from conservative voters. Pastors and politicians have been doing it to them for years. All anyone has to do is spout a bunch of bible shit and claim conservative. If anyone gets busted, they just have to cry, beg forgiveness, blame the devil, and say it was a liberal setup and they’d get more money. Easy pickings from people who are told they should vote against their own education and actually do it.

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      Honestly it’s getting harder and harder to keep myself from taking advantage of morons. Ethics are currently winning though.

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        For what it’s worth, they’re gonna give that money to somebody. It could either be you, who could put it to good use fighting these assholes, or it will be someone who will use their money to get more Republicans elected.

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    She was smiling in the mugshot and talking shit because she didn’t have a good lawyer telling her how fucked she was. They should have gotten her less money and a worse lawyer.

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    How are all these people getting such ridiculously light punishments? Good that they’re going to “flip”, but give them 5 years in prison vs 20 for cooperating.

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      You gotta give them a real good incentive for them to turn against the guy who currently controls the entire GOP. Also, they’re small fries. Trump is the one that needs at least 20 years.

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        It’s also a very culty behaviour to hate apostates even more than nonbelievers.

        If the extremist freaks are going to target anyone with violence, it’s going to be the perceived “traitors” who “stabbed them in the back”.

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    I predict,

    The easiest to win and fastest class-action lawsuit in the history of the courts

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      Doubtful. The money is likely considered a gift, so there’s no implied contract where the donors would get anything in return.

      One could argue fraud, but I think that would have to come with intent. A reasonable person could conclude that her intent when she was collecting the money was to prepare for a long and difficult legal battle which appeared to be a highly likely situation.

      I don’t believe the donors are given any expectation that they would receive back money that was not used. The only place that might be conveyed would be the Terms of Service on whatever site she used if she used something like gofundme. If the terms say that money must be returned under certain circumstances, then I could see legitimate legal standing. But if she set up her own website where she could put her own fine print in? They’re out of luck.

      The lesson is to be more judicious with your money. If you don’t like what someone does with your money after you give it to them, then make better decisions about who you give your money to.

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      How? She collected money for her legal defense and she undoubtedly spent it on exactly that in order to negotiate this deal. If people thought that donating to her was going to force her to lie on Trump’s behalf then they are fucking morons who get “defrauded” every time they walk out their door because they are too stupid to manage any expenses.