While serving as a senior legal advisor to the then-President of the United States and as
counsel for his reelection campaign, Jenna Lynn Ellis (“Respondent”) repeatedly made
misrepresentations on national television and on Twitter, undermining the American public’s
confidence in the 2020 presidential election. The parties stipulate that Respondent’s misconduct
warrants public censure, and the Presiding Disciplinary Judge (“the Court”) approves the parties’
stipulation ...
Respondant agrees she made the following ten misrepresentations:
On November 13, 2020, Respondent claimed that “Hillary Clinton still has not
conceded the 2016 election.”
On November 20, 2020, Respondent appeared on Mornings with Maria on Fox
Business and stated: “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation,
we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show
that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from
Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret . . .”
On November 20, 2020, Respondent appeared on Spicer & Co. and stated, “with all
those states [Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia] combined we know
that the election was stolen from President Trump and we can prove that.”
On November 21, 2020, Respondent stated on Twitter under her handle
@JennaEllisEsq., “ . . . SECOND, we will present testimonial and other evidence IN
COURT to show how this election was STOLEN!”
On November 23, 2020, Respondent appeared on The Ari Melber Show on MSNBC
and stated, “The election was stolen and Trump won by a landslide.”
On November 30, 2020, Respondent appeared on Mornings with Maria on Fox
Business and stated, “President Trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this
election, we have at least six states that were corrupted, if not more, through their
voting systems. . . We know that President Trump won in a landslide.” She also
stated, “The outcome of this election is actually fraudulent it's wrong, and we
understand than when we subtract all the illegal ballots, you can see that President
Trump actually won in a landslide.”
On December 3, 2020, Respondent appeared on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business
and stated, “The outcome of this election is actually fraudulent it's wrong, and we
understand than when we subtract all the illegal ballots, you can see that President
Trump actually won in a landslide.”
On December 5, 2020, Respondent appeared on Justice with Judge Jeanine on Fox
News and stated, "We have over 500,000 votes [in Arizona] that were cast illegally . . .”
On December 15, 2020, Respondent appeared on Greg Kelly Reports on Newsmax
and stated, “The proper and true victor, which is Donald Trump . . .”
On December 22, 2020, Respondent stated on Twitter, through her handle
@JennaEllisEsq, “I spent an hour with @DanCaplis for an in-depth discussion about
President @realDonaldTrump's fight for election integrity, the overwhelming evidence
proving this was stolen, and why fact-finding and truth—not politics—matters!”
Respondent made these misrepresentations on Twitter and on various television programs,
including Fox Business, MSNBC, Fox News, and Newsmax.3
The parties agree that by making
these misrepresentations, Respondent violated Colo. RPC 8.4(c), which provides that it is ...
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