"In two courtrooms 800 miles apart on Tuesday, a stark reality for former President Donald Trump became clearer than ever," Politico reported: "If Trump is taken down in his myriad criminal and civil cases, it will likely be at the hands of his own former lawyers."
On Tuesday morning, Jenna Ellis became the fourth co-defendant in Trump's Georgia election interference case — and the third former Trump-affiliated lawyer — to plead guilty to lesser crimes in return for probation, financial penalties and a promise to testify truthfully against any co-defendants if called to do so by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
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