{"id":274217,"date":"2025-11-10T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:05:08","slug":"trump-pardons-rudy-giuliani-others-who-backed-efforts-to-overturn-2020-election-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274217\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a Justice Department official.<\/p>\n

Ed Martin, the government\u2019s pardon attorney, posted on social media<\/a> a signed proclamation of the \u201cfull, complete, and unconditional\u201d pardon.<\/p>\n

The list released by Martin includes dozens of Trump’s political allies, and also names conservative lawyers Sidney Powell and John Eastman. <\/p>\n

“No MAGA left behind,” Martin posted on X<\/a> before sharing the signed document. <\/p>\n

The proclamation explicitly says the pardon does not apply to Trump.<\/p>\n

Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, and none of the Trump allies named were charged in federal cases over the 2020 election. But the move underscores Trump\u2019s continued\u00a0efforts to rewrite the history of the election\u00a0he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. It follows the sweeping pardons<\/a> of the hundreds of\u00a0Trump supporters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot\u00a0at the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of attacking law enforcement. <\/p>\n

The proclamation described efforts to prosecute those accused of aiding Trump\u2019s efforts to cling to power \u201cas a grave national injustice perpetrated on the American people\u201d and said the pardons were designed to continue \u201cthe process of national reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n

Also pardoned were Republicans who acted as\u00a0fake electors\u00a0for Trump in 2020 and were charged in state cases of submitting false certificates that confirmed they were legitimate electors despite Biden\u2019s victory in those states.<\/p>\n

Trump himself was indicted on\u00a0felony charges\u00a0accusing him of working to overturn his 2020 election defeat, but the case brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith\u00a0was abandoned\u00a0in November after Trump\u2019s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris because of the department\u2019s policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.<\/p>\n

Giuliani, Meadows and others who were named in the proclamation had been charged by state prosecutors over the 2020 election, but the cases\u00a0have hit a dead end or are just limping along. A judge in September dismissed the Michigan case against 15 Republicans accused of attempting to falsely certify Trump as the winner of the election in that battleground state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-274217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}