President Donald Trump issued pardons for his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and more than 70 other allies over actions they took in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, the Justice Department announced over the weekend.
Justice Department Pardon Attorney Ed Martin posted the announcement on social media on Sunday evening, which included Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows; constitutional lawyer John Eastman, lawyer and conservative radio host Jenna Ellis, and attorney Sidney Powell. The action protects them from federal prosecution for their efforts related to Trump’s legal challenges to the 2020 election.
Breaking: President Trump pardoned the 2020 Alternative Electors.
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
— Ed Martin (@EdMartinDOJ) November 10, 2025
“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 wrote in the pardon document, which was signed on Friday.
Trump wrote that the action applies “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.”
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has been entangled in a variety of state-level suits from Arizona to Georgia over his actions and statements following the 2020 election.
Other prominent people pardoned include Georgia Lt. Governor Burt Jones and former DOJ official and current Office of Management and Budget official Jeffrey Clark. The pardon notes that it does not apply to Trump.
Clark said that he had received a call from Trump on Friday night informing him of the pardon.
“I did nothing wrong when I questioned the 2020 election in Georgia, including by drafting an unsent privileged letter urging Georgia officials to launch their own investigations and then decide for themselves how to proceed,” Clark wrote on X Monday morning. “I shouldn’t have had to battle this witch hunt for 4+ years. Trump’s group pardon applies to me and others, aiming to end the lawfare.”
Many on the list were those involved in proposals to submit an “alternate” slate of electors in states where Trump and others alleged widespread voter fraud occurred. Some of these individuals have faced prosecution in states such as Arizona and Wisconsin.
“Thank you: [Trump] for allowing me, as U.S. Pardon Attorney, to work with [the White House], along with [Attorney General Pam Bondi], [Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche] & [Solicitor General] John Sauer, to achieve your intent—let their healing begin,” Martin wrote on X early Monday morning.
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