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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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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[-] ohmyiv@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Zellith@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago

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

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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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