President Donald Trump has granted yet another sweeping round of pardons, this time to some of the key players in his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, including his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to his pardon attorney Ed Martin.
Martin posted the proclamation document, which appears to have been signed by the president on Friday, on his personal X account with the caption, “Important pardon of Alternate Electors of 2020!!”
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The document states, “This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation.”
Trump has ordered “a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election,” it continues.
Rudolph Giuliani conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 19, 2020. Trump attorneys Jenna Ellis, left, and Sydney Powell, also appear. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
The pardon applies to 77 people, including some of the attorneys involved in the scheme to undo Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, like Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro, as well as his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, his longtime aide Boris Epshteyn and Jeffrey Clark, who was a top Justice Department official during Trump’s first term and is now acting head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
The document explicitly states that the pardon does not apply to Trump.
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In a statement shared with HuffPost on the pardons, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “These great Americans were persecuted and put through hell by the Biden Administration for challenging an election, which is the cornerstone of democracy.”
The statement adds, “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.”
In a statement to HuffPost, Giuliani’s rep said Giuliani is “deeply grateful” for the pardon.
“This action further highlights the years of unjust attacks against the mayor and so many others, and reinforces what should now be clear to everyone,” the statement reads. “Mayor Giuliani deserves to have his bar license immediately reinstated without delay.”
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The pardon’s nature is largely symbolic as none of those listed face federal charges. Besides, Trump’s pardons do not apply to state or local charges.
Four of Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election interference case — Ellis, Powell, Chesebro and Scott Hall — had all pleaded guilty in the Georgia 2020 election interference case, which was once considered one of the strongest cases against Trump. The fate of that case is now unclear after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from prosecuting it.
Giuliani, Eastman, Powell, Clark and Chesebro were considered to be among Trump’s unnamed co-conspirators in his plot to steal the 2020 election, according to the indictment of the president presented by former special counsel Jack Smith. None of them were charged in the case, which was dropped following Trump’s victory in the November 2024 race.
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