Former President Donald Trump’s former legal advisers Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis, along with Jim Lamon, a 2022 Republican Senate candidate, have all pleaded not guilty in Arizona’s “fake electors” case during their arraignments Tuesday.
Lamon, Epshteyn, and Ellis joined 15 other defendants in pleading not guilty to forgery, fraud, and conspiracy charges stemming from alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
A state grand jury brought charges against the 18 defendants — among those charged include former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
According to state prosecutors, 11 Trump supporters met at the Arizona GOP headquarters a month after the 2020 election, and they signed a certificate claiming to be Arizona’s 11 electors to the Electoral College, but state officials had already certified the electors for President Joe Biden, who won the state by 10,457 votes. Arizona’s GOP took a video of the “electors” signing the certificate, posted it on X, and sent it to Congress and the National Archives.
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Ellis was part of Trump’s legal team that advised him as allegedly attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In 2023, she pleaded guilty for her role in assisting to overturn Georgia’s election results.
“In the frenetic pace of attempting to raise challenges to the election in several states, including Georgia, I failed to do my due diligence,” Ellis said in Fulton County Superior Court last year. “If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this full experience with deep remorse.”
