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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    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.