(Washington) US President Donald Trump has pardoned 77 people involved in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, including his former lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, according to the senior official responsible for orchestrating presidential pardons, Ed Martin.
“This proclamation puts an end to a serious national injustice perpetrated against the American people after the 2020 presidential election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” states a text dated Friday and posted online on X during the night of Sunday to Monday by Ed Martin.
Among the beneficiaries of the presidential pardon are Rudy Giuliani, but also Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff in 2020, and John Eastman, a lawyer who proposed strategies to prevent the certification of the results of the presidential election lost by Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
Among those pardoned are also Boris Epshteyn, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, and Sidney Powell, a conservative lawyer who had launched proceedings against the electoral results in key states.
In addition to his inner circle, the president pardoned dozens of Republican activists involved in trying to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
It is a “complete, total and unconditional” pardon, underlines the text, which specifies however that “the pardon does not apply to the President of the United States”.
These pardons are largely symbolic, with none of the people identified being charged with federal crimes, only those affected by the presidential pardon.
The persons concerned remain liable to be judged by the local courts before which they are prosecuted.
