Trump Pardons Giuliani and 76 Others
President Trump granted pardons to 77 individuals involved in an effort to challenge the 2020 election outcome — including his close allies Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, a Justice Department attorney announced late Sunday.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 Vice 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.
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Buzzkill: none of these people were charged with anything federally.
ReplyDeleteThe pardon is symbolic.
Biden granted 4,245 acts of clemency during his four-year tenure in the White House. That far exceeds the total of any other president since the beginning of the 20th century. None of these people were charged as I recall. He pardoned his entire family.
ReplyDeleteThe pardons are symbolic, in that these people haven’t actually been charged with federal crimes. Some of them face state-level charges, for which Trump cannot pardon them.
ReplyDeleteBut that’s also what makes these so notable. Trump is using this symbolic gesture to expand the ranks of people who went to great and legally dubious lengths to help him try to overturn the 2020 election and who later received pardons.
When you combine these new pardons with the pardons and commutations given to January 6, 2021, defendants and Trump allies who testified in cases involving the president, across his two terms Trump has now pardoned more than 1,650 people who played significant roles in matters involving him personally.
What are the state level charges among these 77?
ReplyDeleteAnd you really need to start reading up on Jan 6.
I just find January 6th, incredibly boring. Why does it get so much coverage?
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