Yesterday’s tear-soaked guilty plea by attorney Jenna Ellis in the Georgia election interference RICO case was only the latest bit of bad news for former president Donald Trump. Ellis is the third attorney to flip in the case (behind Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro). And while the attorneys once talked a big game about the 2020 election, in the cold light of felony charges, everything looks a lot different.
And MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough sees the truth — shit just got entirely too real for the trio. On his show he said, “This is sort of the ‘Christmas Story’ metaphor that I’m sure every great legal mind across America has been thinking, the BB gun. It’s all a lot of fun until it puts somebody’s eyes out.”
Because for a while it was “fun” — they thought “‘we’re getting to own the libs, we’re getting to own the press.’” But that all changed, as the consequences, they are real.
“It’s one thing to be making shit up outside of a courtroom,” he added. “It’s quite another to walk into that courtroom and get five to 10 years.”
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