President Donald Trump granted a broad pardon to key figures allegedly involved in the scheme to organize an alternative slate of electors and “expose voter fraud.” during the 2020 election, according to US pardon attorney Ed Martin.
Trump pardoned high-profile people allegedly involved in his attempt to overturn the election, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn, John Eastman and Mark Meadows, and 72 other people 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 in a sweeping scheme to overturn the election results.
Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney for President Donald Trump, looks on during an appearance before the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan, on December 2, 2020.
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Four of those pardoned pleaded guilty in the Georgia case.
“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated against the American people following the 2020 presidential election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” the pardon reads.
The language of the pardon explicitly states that it does not apply to Trump himself. “This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States,” according to the pardon.
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