REVEALED: Jenna Ellis Was Deemed “Too Incompetent To Be Fired For Cause” by Unemployment Ins

Wow. This is a startler, but it explains many things. Aaron Rupar is an independent journalist with an impressive Twitter/X following and he found out this incredible fact about Jenna Ellis and published it on his Substack page, Public Notice.You may recall that Jenna Ellis was a deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colorado which is Ken Buck territory. She told the Wall Street Journal that she was fired from the job because she was asked to bring a case that was unethical. And that’s not the first, nor last, thing that she fudged. She landed as a commentator and “lawyer” in Trump world, because that’s exactly where she belongs.

Ellis’s first job as a lawyer was as a deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colorado, where she spent most of her time in traffic court. After six months she was fired “because she refused to bring a case to trial that she believed was an unethical prosecution.” Or at least that’s what she told the Wall Street Journal. The Colorado Sun reported that she was axed for “unsatisfactory performance” and then successfully won an unemployment claim because the hearing examiner determined that she was too incompetent to be fired for cause.

While acknowledging that Ellis had been terminated “because she failed to meet the employer’s expectations 100 percent of the time,” the officer found that Ellis had only “committed an irreparable egregious act” in a small portion of her cases and was “performing the duties to the best of her ability” given the “deficiencies in her education and experience.”

Ellis bounced around a bit after that, including a six-month stint at a discovery processing company which had a contract with the State Department. As the Journal notes, Ellis appears to have retconned this in her bio to “an attorney for the US Department of State.”

She then spent a few years as a pre-law advisor to undergrads at a Christian college and self-published a couple books on the evils of homosexuality, only to emerge as a columnist for the Washington Examiner, where she described herself as a “professor of constitutional law.”

Then it was on to gigs at rightwing Christian outfits, including James Dobson’s Family Institute and the Thomas More Society, which got her booked for conservative media hits. In 2016, Ellis called Trump “insanely dangerous” and “one of the greatest threats to our liberty.” But by 2019, she was singing a different tune, and, after hearing her on Fox, Trump decided he liked the sound of it. In 2019, she joined the campaign where she was once again rechristened, this time as “Dr.” Jenna Ellis, “constitutional law attorney.”

All of which is a long way of saying that Ellis was wholly unequipped to contribute to Trump’s legal strategy, but eminently qualified to toddle along behind Rudy parroting his insane election lies. Which is more or less exactly what she did.

You know what this means, right? She’s Mellissa Carone with a law degree. Remember this Giuliani recruit?

Carone showed up on this website once and said to me in the comments thread, “Read the Constitution, please.” I replied to her, “I read it in law school. And BTW, are you still broadcasting from under your bed?” Carone was indeed doing that. She was posting Facebook videos from a room which had one of those desk/bunk bed set ups where the desk is underneath the bunk bed.

Evidently she found my question abusive, because she never came back. Let’s return to the saga of Jenna Ellis, Mellissa Carone’s clone.

The [Georgia] indictment also notes that Ellis, the “constitutional law attorney,” drafted two legal memos in support of the plot to substitute fake electors for the real ones. Clocking in at a whopping three pages together, these documents manage to be both highly derivative of and much dumber than the memos drafted by attorneys John Eastman and Ken Chesebro.

Ellis’s big idea was that Mike Pence would purport to be “confused” about the intent of the swing state legislators and then invent a rule allowing him to order those legislators to convene and make their wishes known by January 15. No one at the campaign appears to have paid the slightest attention to the Crayola scribblings of the “Senior Legal Advisor,” but at least she got a mention in DA Willis’s indictment!

Jenna Ellis is a constitutional lawyer like I’m Sandra Day O’Connor. And are you ready for this? She once challenged election lawyer Mark Elias on Twitter, saying something to the effect of “You wish you were me.” The hubris with these people surpasseth all understanding.

The article further goes on to say that Jenna was “relaxed and even giggling with her lawyers” until it was show time and then she “turned on the waterworks.”

In fact, her show of remorse in Colorado appears to have lasted just long enough to preserve her license to practice law. In February, she resolved a bar complaint by signing a Stipulation to Discipline admitting to making 10 “misrepresentations while serving as counsel for the Trump campaign and personal counsel to President Trump.” On multiple occasions, Ellis falsely asserted that the campaign had evidence of fraud, including affidavits and manipulated ballots. She even once made the bizarre claim that “Hillary Clinton still has not conceded the 2016 election.”

After signing the stipulation agreeing that she’d made false statements and violated her duty of candor, Ellis immediately took to Twitter to announce that she’d done no such thing.

“The politically-motivated Left failed miserably in their attempt to destroy me. They’re now trying to falsely discredit me by saying I admitted I lied,” she huffed. “That is FALSE. I would NEVER lie. Lying requires INTENTIONALLY making a false statement. I never did that, nor did I stipulate to or admit that.”

And in Georgia, she couldn’t even maintain her contrition through a 25-minute hearing.

“Your honor, it is our understanding that there won’t be any travel restrictions,” her lawyer wheedled after Ellis shut off the waterworks. Judge McAfee referred Ellis to the Out of State Probation Office for processing.

“That may mean if she has a flight today, I don’t know if that’s going to be possible,” the court hedged.

“We do have flights booked this afternoon,” her lawyer persisted, assuring the court that Ellis was “not a flight risk.”

“Until Florida says they can accept her case, she has to stay in Georgia,” a representative from the probation office replied off camera, noting that office would do its best to get her out as soon as her paperwork was completed. But that wasn’t good enough for Ellis, who asked to be excused from all that unpleasantness in time to make a 2pm flight.

She showed up to court at 9:00 a.m. and wanted all her problems to be gone by 9:30 a.m. so she could leave town. Ellis doesn’t know much about law, but she’s got MAGA down to a tee. She’s rightfully an acolyte of Trump’s because she pretends to be a lawyer like he pretends to be a successful businessman.

We are truly amusing ourselves to death, as the title of the Neil Postman book, written in the 80’s told us we would. Television has turned politics into playacting. You don’t need to know anything to be in politics these days and you don’t need to know how to do anything. You only need to LOOK like you know something and SOUND a certain way. If you’ve got the right line of bull, you’re made. Ask Jenna Ellis, ask Mellissa Carone, hell, ask Donald Trump. Because they’re all totally phony and complete flakes.

They’re only good at spouting a line of complete and utter bullshit. And unfortunately, we live in a world where that works. At least for a while. Carone flamed out because she was too stupid to get candidacy paperwork filed in time for a state race, Ellis just flamed out this week and now the truth is coming out about her. And Trump has been seething since October 2 about his fraud trial in New York. Look for that to continue.

And what do all these characters have in common? They’re all Republicans. This is what the last days of the GOP look like.