Ellis pleaded guilty to conspiring to overturn the election in Georgia along with attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, who were also pardoned late Sunday. During her Monday episode of American Family Radio’s Jenna Ellis in the Morning, she admitted she was “a little overwhelmed this morning.”
“A lot of us have gone through a lot more trauma than anybody listening really understands,” Ellis said. The attorney had already gone to X to write “thank you” in response to U.S. Pardon Attorney Edward Martin’s announcement.
“There is so much corruption that I believe is yet to be uncovered,” Ellis said.
Ellis went on to cooperate in the case of fake electors in Arizona during the 2020 election. Ultimately, no charges were pressed against Ellis, and prosecutors essentially “apologized” to Ellis, according to her retelling during the podcast on Monday.
“I was actually impressed with the level of detail of the [Department of Justice] lawyers and how they wanted to get it right. And it may be that they realized they weren’t getting it right, and who knows if there was some kind of internal pushback,” Ellis said.
“But the difference between the level of detail on that level versus how wide-sweeping the states were to just anybody who’s remotely associated with Trump, let’s just include them. The states, I think, were just willing to do what maybe some in the DOJ were not,” Ellis added.
Turning Point USA COO Tyler Bowyer also commented on his pardon regarding the same Arizona case that Ellis avoided charges from.
“Very grateful for the support of the President, @EagleEdMartin and the many who have looked out for us since this expensive injustice has taken place in the swing states,” Bowyer wrote on X Monday.
“We were targeted to sideline many of us politically,” Bowyer added. “It has nearly bankrupted and caused severe trauma to many good people on this list— this is why it is important to get to the bottom of what was carried out against good faith and active citizens who took to the courts to ask questions about the 2020 election.”
Meanwhile, attorney Jeff Clark said his pardon in the Georgia case “was totally unexpected.” Clark, unlike Ellis, pleaded not guilty in the case.
“I did nothing wrong when I questioned the 2020 election in Georgia, including by drafting an unsent privileged letter urging Georgia officials to launch their own investigations and then decide for themselves how to proceed,” Clark wrote on X Monday.
“God’s support has carried me through at all points. I’m thankful to the Lord, President Trump, friends, and donors. I wish I could be declaring this legal nonsense over for good—a pardon should totally and abruptly kill off these federal bar and Georgia-federal attacks on me and many others,” Clark added. “Sadly, that’s not [the] immediate reality.”
Clark continues to fundraise toward his “legal defense fund,” which has raised over $151,000 as of Monday morning.
In total, Trump pardoned 77 people on Sunday. Notably, Powell and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani have yet to comment on their respective pardons. Giuliani was disbarred last year over his actions during the 2020 election.
