by Byron M. Large, Presiding Disciplinary Judge
Supreme Court, State of Colorado
The People of the State of Colorado vs. Jenna Lynn Ellis
Case Number: 23PDJ004
March 8, 2023
SUPREME COURT, STATE OF COLORADO
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN DISCIPLINE BEFORE
THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDING DISCIPLINARY JUDGE
1300 BROADWAY, SUITE 250
DENVER, CO 80203
Complainant: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
Respondent: JENNA LYNN ELLIS, #44026
Case Number: 23PDJ004
OPINION APPROVING STIPULATION TO DISCIPLINE UNDER C.R.C.P. 242.19(c)
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.
I. STIPULATED FACTS AND ARGUMENT
On February 13, 2023, Jessica E. Yates and Jacob M. Vos, Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel (“the People”), and Michael W. Melito, counsel for Respondent, filed a “Stipulation to Discipline Pursuant to C.R.C.P. 242.19.” In the stipulation, the parties agree that Respondent should be publicly censured.
The parties stipulate to the following facts. From February 2019 to January 15, 2021, Respondent was a senior legal advisor to the then-serving President of the United States. She “was a member of President Trump’s legal team . . . that made efforts to challenge President Biden’s victory in the 2020 Presidential Election.”1 Though Respondent “was part of the legal team . . . she was not counsel of record for any of the lawsuits challenging the election results.”2 Respondent made ten public misrepresentations in November and December 2020 in her capacity as counsel for the then-President’s reelection campaign and as personal counsel to the then-President, while also advertising her status as a lawyer.
Respondent 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 professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.
The parties ask the Court to approve their stipulation and to publicly censure Respondent for this misconduct. In doing so, the parties rely on Standard 5.13 under the American Bar Association Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions (“ABA Standards”), 4 which provides that “[public censure] is generally appropriate when a lawyer knowingly5 engages in any [noncriminal] conduct that involves dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation and that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law.”
On February 15, 2023, the Court ordered the parties to set this matter for a hearing on the stipulation. The Court asked the parties to address whether ABA Standard 5.13 is the most fitting ABA Standard for Respondent’s misconduct. The Court also directed the parties to address the applicability of other ABA Standards, including ABA Standards 7.1, 7.2, and 5.11(b). At the hearing, which took place on March 1, 2023, the Court heard legal argument from both parties as to the appropriate ABA Standards and in support of their proposed sanction.6 The parties represented that they could not locate published lawyer discipline cases that present facts akin to those to which they stipulate, noting that this case is novel and one of first impression. Throughout the hearing, the parties also signaled that First Amendment considerations, including limitations on lawyers’ speech, were an important part of their analysis in reaching the terms of their negotiated settlement.
II. STANDARD OF REVIEW AND LEGAL ANALYSIS
In considering a stipulation to discipline, the Court “may either reject the stipulation and order that the disciplinary proceeding go forward . . . or approve the stipulation and enter an appropriate order.”7 The Court endeavors to accord parties broad latitude to fashion mutually agreeable resolutions, wishes to honor parties’ agreements, and is favorably inclined to accept targeted and proportionate stipulations that protect the public and promote confidence in the legal profession.
Reviewing stipulations “[u]sing discretion and in accordance with the considerations governing imposition of disciplinary sanctions,”8 the Court looks to the ABA Standards as its guiding authority in imposing an appropriate sanction, unless doing so would contradict Colorado Supreme Court case law.9 The Court is also guided by the Colorado Supreme Court’s stated regulatory objectives to increase public understanding of and confidence in the rule of law and to ensure lawyers’ compliance with the rules of professional conduct and other rules in a manner that is fair, efficient, effective, targeted, and proportionate.10 This Court is thus cognizant that disciplinary decisions serve to guide and educate the members of the legal profession.11
The Court understands that this matter presents unique facts, and it is keenly aware that it does not have the benefit of factually analogous cases imposing discipline. Absent comparable prior cases, the Court’s analysis centers exclusively on the ABA Standards and interpretive Colorado Supreme Court case law, which provide a framework to assess the stipulation.
The ABA Standard 5.0 series sanctions lawyers for violations of duties owed to the public, and the ABA Standard 5.1 series specifically focuses on lawyers’ failure to maintain personal integrity. ABA Standard 5.1 appears singular in that it takes no account of the type or quantum of harm a lawyer’s misconduct causes. Under ABA Standard 5.11(b), disbarment is generally appropriate when a lawyer engages in intentional conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation that seriously adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice. ABA Standard 5.12 provides for suspension when a lawyer’s dishonesty implicates criminal misconduct. Under a strict reading of the Standards, it is not applicable here.12 ABA Standard 5.13 provides that reprimand is generally appropriate when a lawyer knowingly engages in any other conduct that involves dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation and that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law.13
In contrast, ABA Standard 7.0 implicates violations of the duties lawyers owe as professionals, which generally involve “false or misleading communication about the lawyer or the lawyer’s services, improper communication of fields of practice, improper solicitation of professional employment from a prospective client, unreasonable or improper fees, unauthorized practice of law, improper withdrawal from representation, or failure to report professional misconduct.” Under ABA Standard 7.2, suspension is generally appropriate when a lawyer knowingly engages in conduct that is a violation of a duty owed as a professional and causes injury or potential injury to a client, the public, or the legal system.
Although ABA Standard 7.2 seemingly fits the fact pattern at hand, the Colorado Supreme Court’s opinion in In re Rosen counsels against relying on that Standard outside the context of lawyers’ misrepresentations while executing their professional duties.14 Rosen further counsels against imposing a sanction in the gap left between ABA Standards 5.11(b) and 5.13. Indeed, the Rosen court addressed at length the appropriate Standards to apply when faced with instances of lawyer misrepresentation:
Unless deceit or misrepresentation is directed toward a client, see ABA Standard 4.6, a tribunal, see ABA Standard 6.1, or the legal profession itself (as, for example, by making false representations in applying for admission to the bar), see ABA Standard 7.0, it is considered by the ABA Standards to be the violation of a duty owed to the public, see ABA Standard 5.0. As the violation of a duty owed to the public (as distinguished from a client, a court, or the profession), even conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation, as long as it falls short of actual criminality or comparable intentional conduct seriously adversely reflecting on one's fitness to practice law, should generally be sanctioned only by reprimand, or censure.15
With these authorities in mind, the Court turns to the parties’ stipulation. Respondent and the People agree that Respondent made ten misrepresentations on Twitter and to nationally televised audiences in her capacity as personal counsel to the then-President of the United States and as counsel for his reelection campaign. The parties agree that Respondent made these statements, which violated Colo. RPC 8.4(c), with at least a reckless state of mind. The parties agree that Respondent was not counsel of record in any lawsuits challenging the 2020 election results. The parties agree that Respondent, through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public. Finally, the parties agree that two aggravators apply—Respondent had a selfish motive and she engaged in a pattern of misconduct—while one factor, her lack of prior discipline, mitigates her misconduct.
Based on the parties’ agreements and Rosen’s clear directives, the Court concludes that ABA Standard 5.13 applies in this circumstance. Though the aggravating factors outweigh the mitigators, the factors are not so out of balance as to warrant departing from the presumptive sanction of public censure. Given the limited information before the Court—which includes only the four corners of the parties’ stipulation and their arguments supporting this outcome at the hearing on March 1, 2023—the Court finds the terms of the stipulation to be consistent with the considerations governing imposition of disciplinary sanctions and APPROVES the parties’ stipulation in this case.
DATED THIS 8th DAY OF MARCH, 2023.
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BRYON M. LARGE
PRESIDING DISCIPLINARY JUDGE
Copies to:
Jessica E. Yates Via Email
Jacob M. Vos j.yates@csc.state.co.us
Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel j.vos@csc.state.co.us
Michael W. Melito Via Email
Respondent’s Counsel melito@melitola
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Notes:
1. Stip. ¶ 6(a).
2.Stip. ¶ 6(c).
3. Stip. ¶ 6(e). The Court understands that these television programs are nationally televised broadcasts.
4. Found in ABA Annotated Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions (2d ed. 2019).
5. The parties stipulate that Respondent acted with a mental state that was “at least reckless.” Stip. ¶ 13(b). For disciplinary purposes, recklessness is treated as equivalent to a knowing state of mind, with a limited exception not applicable here. See Colo. RPC 1.0 cmt. 7A; People v. Small, 962 P.2d 258, 260 (Colo. 1998).
6. Yates and Vos appeared on the People’s behalf, and Melito appeared for Respondent, who did not attend the hearing.
7. C.R.C.P. 242.19(c).
8. C.R.C.P. 242.19(c).
9. See In re Roose, 69 P.3d 43, 46-47 (Colo. 2003). The ABA Standards were created to “enhance the consistency of the sanctions imposed in attorney disciplinary proceedings.” Id. at 47.
10. Preamble to Chapters 18 to 20 of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, ¶¶ 1- 2.
11. See In Re Attorney C., 47 P.3d 1167, 1174 (Colo. 2002).
12. See In re Convisser, 242 P.3d 299, 313 (N.M. 2010) (“Under Standard 5.13, a reprimand is generally considered appropriate when a lawyer knowingly engages in non-criminal conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation that adversely reflects on his or her fitness to practice law.”); In re Schaeffer, 45 A.3d 149, at *9 (Del. 2012) (“The main distinction between Standard 5.12 and Standard 5.13 appears to be the seriousness of the conduct, with Standard 5.12 focused on ’criminal conduct’ that ’seriously adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice’ and Standard 5.13 focused on ’other [presumably non-criminal] conduct.’”) (alteration in original).
13. Significant gaps exist between ABA Standards 5.13 and 5.11(b). Those gaps include the distinction in the mental state—intentional versus knowing—and whether the lawyer’s conduct “adversely reflects” or “seriously adversely reflects” on a lawyer’s fitness to practice law. Moreover, suspension under ABA Standard 5.1 is limited to certain criminal conduct, leaving the binary option of disbarment or public censure as the only available sanctions for noncriminal conduct under this ABA Standard. Courts have repeatedly struggled with this aspect of ABA Standard 5.1’s design. See People v. Steinman, 452 P.3d 240, 250 (Colo. O.P.D.J. 2019) (imposing suspension under ABA Standard 7.2 after a prosecutor made misrepresentations to his supervisors and to another lawyer regarding his work on a civil matter, finding that an analysis under ABA Standard 5.1 “suggests that the presumptive sanction should occupy a middle ground between disbarment and public censure” because the conduct, though intentional, did not seriously adversely reflect on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law); see also In re Graeff, 485 P.3d 258, 265 (Or. 2021) (recognizing that analysis under Standard 5.1 is “not a perfect fit”); In re Flannery, 47 P.3d 891, 895 (Or. 2002) (same); In re Complaint as to Conduct of Carpenter, 95 P.3d 203, 211 (Or. 2004) (same); In re Discipline of Walton, 287 P.3d 1098, 1103 (same).
14. 198 P.3d 116 (Colo. 2008).
15. Id. at 120 (emphasis added).
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Top Trump Lawyer [Jenna Ellis] Throws him UNDER THE BUS to Judge
by Ben Meiselas, MeidasTouch
Mar 9, 2023
Donald Trump’s Senior Election Lawyer Jenna Ellis has signed a formal court document with a Colorado judge admitting to lying about 2020 election fraud. MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports.
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I'm Ben micellis from the Midas touch
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Network one of Donald Trump's top
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lawyers back in 2022 who was spreading
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the big lie one of the leaders of his
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legal team Jenna Ellis has now been
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publicly censured by the disciplinary
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authorities overseeing the practice of
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law in the state of Colorado and as part
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of a stipulation Jenna Ellis has
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admitted that she repeatedly lied and
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misrepresented facts regarding the 2020
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election she admits that all of the
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things that she was saying about Donald
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Trump and about the big lie were indeed
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big lies and as part of an opinion
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accepting the censure agreement between
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Jenna Ellis and the State Bar
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disciplinary group in the state of
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Colorado the judge the presiding judge
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of the disciplinary courts there judge
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Brian a m large
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explained that the statements made by
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Jenna Ellis were done quote with at
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least a reckless state of mind and Ellis
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agreed that she quote through her
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conduct undermined the American public's
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confidence in the presidential election
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violating her duty of Candor to the
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public and the judge wrote that it was
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motivated by quote a selfish motive and
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part of a quote pattern of misconduct
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engaged in by Jenna Ellis here let's
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just pull up the document right now so
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you can see that the lies are being
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admitted to by Jenna Ellis let's just
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pull up that page first it says
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respondent Jenna Ellis agrees that she
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made the following 10 misrepresentations
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I'm going to read each of those 10
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misrepresentations that she stipulated
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to making in a moment but first let me
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just show you what this document is
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this is an opinion approving stipulation
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for discipline or to discipline under
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crcp 242 a 19c just a Colorado State Bar
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Code that talks about stipulations for
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uh public censure
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um and this is what it states this is
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the stipulation so Jenna Ellis Trump's
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lawyer is admitting to everything that I
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am about to say while serving as a
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senior legal advisor to the then
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president of the United States and as
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counsel for his re-election campaign
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Jenna Lynn Ellis respondent repeatedly
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made misrepresentations a national
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television and on Twitter undermining
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the American public's confidence in the
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2020 presidential election the party
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stipulate that Jenna Ellis respondents
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misconduct warrants public censure and
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the presiding disciplinary judge of the
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Court approves the party's stipulation
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stipulated facts and argument on
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February 13 2023 Jessica e Yates and
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Jacob M Voss Office of the Attorney of
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Regulation Council the people and
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Michael W molito counsel for Jenna Ellis
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respondent filed a stipulation to
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discipline pursuant to crcp
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24219 in the stipulation the parties
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agree that respondents should be
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publicly censured that Jenna Ellis
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should be publicly censored the parties
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stipulate to the following facts from
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February 2019 to January 15 2021
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respondent was a senior legal adviser to
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the then serving president of the United
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States she quote was a member of
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President Trump's legal team that made
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efforts to challenge President Biden's
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victory in the 2020 presidential
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elections though respondent quote was
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part of the legal team she was not
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Council of record for any of the
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lawsuits challenging the election
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results respondents made 10 public
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misrepresentations in November and
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December 2020 and her capacity as
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counsel for the then president's
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re-election campaign and has personal
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counsel to the then president while also
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advertising her status as a lawyer
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respondent agrees that she made the
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following 10 misrepresentations so here
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we go on November 13 2020 respond and
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claim that quote Hillary Clinton still
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has not conceded the 2016 election that
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was false on November 20 2022 respondent
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appeared on mornings with Maria on Fox
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Business and stated quote we have
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affidavits from Witnesses we have voter
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intimidation we have the ballots that
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were manipulated we have all kinds of
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Statistics that show that this was a
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coordinated effort in all of these
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states to transfer votes either from
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Trump to Biden to manipulate the ballots
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to count them in secret this was false
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on November 20th 2020 respondent
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appeared on spicerenko and stated quote
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with all those states in the Mata
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Michigan Pennsylvania Wisconsin Georgia
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combined we know that the election was
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stolen from president Trump and we can
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prove that when she made that statement
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that was false on November 21 2020
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respondents stated on Twitter under our
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handle at Jenna Ellis Esquire quote
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second we will present testimonial and
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other evidence in court to show how this
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election was stolen exclamation point
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this statement by Jenna Ellis was false
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on November 23 2020 respondent appeared
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on the Ari melber show at MSNBC and
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stated quote
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the election was stolen and Trump won by
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a landslide Jenna Ellis admits that this
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statement was false on November 30th
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2020 Jenna Ellis appeared on mornings
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with Maria on Fox Business and stated
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quote president Trump is right that
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there was widespread fraud in this
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election we have at least six states
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that were corrupted if not more through
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their voting systems we know that
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President Trump won in a landslide she
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also stated quote the outcome of this
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election is actually fraudulent it's
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wrong and we understand that when we
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subtract all the illegal ballots you can
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see that the president Trump actually
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won in a landslide Jenna Ellis admits
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that this statement that she made was
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false on December 3rd 2020 Jenna Ellis
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appeared on mornings with Maria on Fox
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Business and stated to quote the outcome
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of this election is actually fraudulent
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it's wrong and we understand that when
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we subtract all the illegal ballots you
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can see that President Trump actually
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won in a landslide the this statement
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Jenna Ellis now admits was false on
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December 5th 2020 respondent appeared
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unjustice with Judge Jeanine on Fox News
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and stated quote we have over 500 000
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votes in Arizona that were cast
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illegally this statement Jenna Ellis now
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admits was false on December 15 2020 Jen
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Ellis appeared on Greg Kelly reports on
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Newsmax and stated quote the proper and
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true Victor which is Donald Trump that
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statement Jenna Ellis now admits was
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false on December 22nd 2020 respondents
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dated on Twitter through her handle at
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Jenna Ellis Esquire quote I spent an
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hour with at Dan caplis for an in-depth
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discussion about at realdonaldtrump at
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president Trump fight for re-election
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Integrity the overwhelming evidence
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proving this was stolen and why the
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fact-finding truth not politics matters
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Jenna Ellis now admits when she made
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this statement it was false respondent
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made these misrepresentations on Twitter
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and on various television programs
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including Fox Business MSNBC Fox News
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and Newsmax the parties agree that by
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making the these misrepresentations
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respondent violated the car the Colorado
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bar rule 8.4 C which provides that it is
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professional misconduct for a lawyer to
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engage in conduct involving dishonesty
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fraud deceit or misrepresentation thus
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Jenna Ellis is admitting to engaging in
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the conduct of dishonesty fraud deceit
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or misrepresentation the parties ask the
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court to approve their stipulation and
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to publicly censure respondent for this
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misconduct in doing so the parties rely
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on standard 5.13 under the American Bar
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Association standards for imposing
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lawyer sanctions the ABA standards which
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provides that public censure is
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generally appropriate when a lawyer
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knowingly engages in any non-criminal
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conduct that involves dishonesty fraud
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deceit or misrepresentation and that
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adversely adversely reflects on the
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lawyer's Fitness to practice law so as
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we've said before Maga what does it
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stand for make attorneys get attorneys
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and here is yet another example with
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Jenna Ellis and just to remind you when
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Jenna Ellis was making a lot of these
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false statements she was making them
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beside Rudy Giuliani of course you'll
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recall this video where Rudy Giuliani
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farted on Jenna Ellis and then Jenna
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Ellis shortly thereafter contracted
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covid play this clip a single witness
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just like you they don't want to know
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the truth so ultimately the question for
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Jenna Ellis is is was this worth it what
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was it worth it at the end of the day my
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own view though
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is that this public censure does not go
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far enough if you want to know why I
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think there was a public censure as
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opposed to revoking her bar license I
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think I have a good understanding why I
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think her bar license should have been
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revoked
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um she's such even though she was a
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senior Counsel on Trump's legal team
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she's so not a serious individual like
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professionally she's such an awful
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lawyer and you'll recall when I was
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reading you the stipulation the key line
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about why I think it was a censure
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versus revoking her license is that she
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never actually appeared in any
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courtrooms on behalf of Donald Trump she
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just went around and spread these lies
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frequently and and media appearances and
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like fake hearings that they would hold
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in like the lobbies or conference rooms
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at hotels
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and because she wasn't in the cases
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themselves that's why I think they
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ultimately gave her a public censure
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instead of a uh revoking her bar license
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but I think they should have still
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revoked her bar license here but what
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the public censure means is basically
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the judge releases to the public the
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stipulation
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letting the public know that her Fitness
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to practice law that her moral character
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to practice law is clearly impaired
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that's what a public censure is it is a
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judge telling the public that she's a
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liar
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and her admitting to the public that she
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is a liar that's what a public censure
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is as opposed to anything like a
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suspension of her license or revoking
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her license from all of the reporting
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I've read and statements from her
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lawyers and the bar lawyers it doesn't
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look like the state of Colorado is going
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to take any further
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disciplinary action here which I think
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is uh unfortunate however I think that
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this evidence will undoubtedly be used
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in many other cases including criminal
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cases against Donald Trump criminal
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investigations of Donald Trump and
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others in Trump's Inner Circle where you
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have the senior legal advisor to Donald
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Trump admitting that she was knowingly
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and recklessly lying to the public on
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behalf of Donald Trump I think this
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document will provide a lot of help with
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those criminal investigations so there
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is a benefit to having the stipulation
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