Jenna Ellis, former President Donald Trump’s campaign attorney who worked with his personal counsel, Rudy Giuliani, has agreed to cooperate with Arizona authorities in return for charges in a phony electors case being dismissed, the state attorney general’s office stated on Monday.
Ellis has already entered a not guilty plea to counts of fraud, forgery, and conspiracy. Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Trump’s presidential chief of staff, and eleven other Republicans who allegedly sent a letter to Congress claiming that Trump had won Arizona are among the seventeen other defendants in the case who have entered not guilty pleas to the felony charges.
On December 14, 2020, eleven individuals who had been nominated to serve as Republican electors for Arizona gathered in Phoenix to sign a certificate designating them as “duly elected and qualified” electors. They also said that Trump had won the state in the 2020 election, even though Arizona went to President Joe Biden by 10,457 votes.
Ellis signed a cooperation agreement in the Arizona case that mandates her she tell the Attorney General’s Office the truth and give an honest testimony in any state or federal court. If Ellis breaks the agreement, prosecutors have the option to back out of the accord and seek new charges.
“Her insights are invaluable and will greatly aid the State in proving its case in court,” Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. “As I stated when the initial charges were announced, I will not allow American democracy to be undermined — it is far too important. Today’s announcement is a win for the rule of law.”
Ellis was indicted in Georgia last year after she and Giuliani attended a session at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020 that was organized by state Republican senators and featured bogus accusations of election fraud. In October, she entered a guilty plea to a single felony charge of encouraging and facilitating false statements and writings.
