Trump pardons Giuliani, Powell, Chesebro and dozens more involved in 2020 fake electors case
President Trump granted pardons for 77 individuals tied to a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election – including his close allies Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, a Justice Department attorney announced late Sunday night.The full list of those pardoned, each of the president’s co-defendants who faced charges related to the 2020 “fake electors” plot, was posted to X just before 11 p.m.by Trump’s “clemency czar” attorney Ed Martin.Martin shared the pardon document in a reply to his May 26, 2025 post that read “No MAGA left behind.”Those given a “full, complete and unconditional” pardon were allegedly entangled in a scheme to organize alternate slates of electors from battleground states that former President Joe Biden won, including Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan.“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” Trump wrote in the pardoning document.
Pardons also went to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and other 2020 campaign aides who allegedly worked together to submit names of fake electors from the four states to Congress to keep him in office.Trump advisers John Eastman, Christina Bobb, and Boris Epshtey were also among the dozens of prominent figures pardoned.The sweeping proclamation, which Trump signed on Friday, notably does not pardon Trump himself.“This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J.
Trump,” a line near the end of the document said.The pardons are mainly symbolic because none of the 77 individuals were charged on the federal level, however they could prevent future administrations from prosecuting the alleged co-conspirators.The “fake electors” scheme eventually led to the attempt by the president’s supporters to halt the certification of the 2020 election on Jan.
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