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10th November 2025
09:21am GMT
The White House announced late Sunday evening (November 9) that Donald Trump has issued pardons for members of his 2020 campaign legal team, including Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro and Sydney Powell, for their involvement in a scheme to change the slates of electors chosen by states that voted against the Republican nominee in that year's presidential election, per The Independent.
A list of 77 people who were pardoned was tweeted out late Sunday evening (10:54 p.m. local time) by Trump's "clemency czar", Ed Martin.
Breaking: President Trump pardoned the 2020 Alternative Electors.
— Ed Martin (@EdMartinDOJ) November 10, 2025
Thank you: @POTUS for allowing me, as U.S. Pardon Attorney, to work with @WhiteHouse, along with @AGPamBondi, @DAGToddBlanche & SG John Sauer, to achieve your intent—let their healing begin. #Federalist74 ⚖️ pic.twitter.com/rDOtgpapCB
The list included several Americans who participated as members of the slates of false electors whose purpose was to supplant duly elected state electors set to cast their states' votes in the Electoral College for Joe Biden, after he won states including Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan in the general election.
That conspiracy, supported by Trump and his allies, led to the attempt by the president's supporters to put a stop to the certification of the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.
It was a political demonstration that turned into a rioting mob attacking the US Capitol and besieging it for several hours.
Sunday's announcement revealed that the pardons were also extended to members of Trump's administration and campaign uncovered in the January 6 investigations, as well as facilitated talks between MAGAworld and a combination of conservative activists and conservative state lawmakers who supported the president's efforts, which includes his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, per The Independent.
At the end of the statement, one of the lines points toward one individual who was not pardoned in connection with the scheme, none other than Donald J. Trump.
The timing of the announcement seems as if it was meant to be overlooked amid the news regarding the government shutdown.
Just minutes before the announcement, the last vote was cast in the Senate to break a filibuster on a resolution to end a 40-day government shutdown by Sen. John Cornyn.
The resolution will now head to the House of Representatives, and even potentially to the president's desk for a signature, which would end the longest funding lapse in history.
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