Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, other key figures allegedly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election

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Source: ABC

President Donald Trump issued a sweeping pardon to key figures allegedly involved in the plan to arrange an alternate slate of electors and "expose voting fraud" during the 2020 election, according to U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin.

Trump pardoned high-profile individuals allegedly involved in his attempt to overturn the election, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn, John Eastman and Mark Meadows -- and 72 other individuals allegedly associated with the effort to challenge the 2020 election results.

The pardon, which Trump appears to have signed on Friday, covers each of the president's co-defendants who were charged in Georgia for a sweeping scheme to overturn election results.

Four of the pardon recipients pleaded guilty in the Georgia case.

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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-pardons-rudy-giuliani-key-figures-involved-efforts/story?id=127367541

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Important comments from Bluesky:

But…those are state charges. They were never federally charged. Nor could they be even if we win in 2028 because the statute of limitations will have expired. But okay.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-11-10T05:25:51.819Z

Maybe this is a signal to future election criminals that they’ll be pardoned, too?

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-11-10T05:29:41.339Z

And there's a long thread from Anna Bower starting here:

Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”

Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.

— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T04:44:56.003Z