Posted on 11/10/25
| News Source: WSJ
President Trump pardoned a list of top allies including Rudy Giuliani in connection with efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to the U.S. pardon attorney, Ed Martin.
The list of pardons includes high-profile figures like Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyers Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as well as dozens of others. An administration official confirmed the news early Monday morning.
A document released by Martin on Monday said the figures would receive a “full, complete and unconditional” pardon.
Giuliani and Powell were pivotal in efforts to pressure legislatures in key states to reject Joe Biden’s victories, while Meadows set up meetings and called Georgia officials asking about alleged election fraud in the state after Trump’s 2020 loss.
None of those identified in the list have been charged with federal crimes, making the pardons a largely symbolic move by the president. The federal pardon wouldn’t affect charges brought by state prosecutors.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the pardoned individuals had been persecuted by the Biden administration.
“Getting prosecuted for challenging results is something that happens in communist Venezuela, not the United States of America, and President Trump is putting an end to the Biden Regime’s communist tactics once and for all,” Leavitt said.
It isn’t the first time Trump has issued pardons in relation to events around the 2020 election.
Shortly after arriving at the White House for his second term in January, the president pardoned nearly all of the 1,500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, effectively wiping away four years of prosecutions.