President Donald Trump has pardoned multiple people including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and others, for “certain offenses related to the 2020 presidential election.”
Former New York mayor Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Meadows, were pardoned alongside attorneys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, and Christina Bobb. Others included in the pardons were political activists and two former Republican state chairmen, Georgia’s David Shafer and Nevada’s Michael McDonald, as well as one former Republican chairwoman, Kelli Ward of Arizona.
“This pardon ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” Trump’s Sunday night proclamation reads. The date of the actual proclamation was not revealed.
The president specified that he was issuing a “full, complete, and unconditional pardon” to 77 people connected to events pertaining to the 2020 election, including those selected as presidential electors and those who engaged in any “conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election.”
The proclamation and the list of people pardoned were posted on social media by U.S. Pardon Attorney Edward Martin.
“Important pardon of Alternate Electors of 2020!!” Martin posted on X. He added this to a previous post, which reads “No MAGA left behind.”
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An important detail of Trump’s pardon is that he specified that he was not included in the pardons.
“This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” the proclamation reads.
