Former U.S. President Donald Trump has issued another broad round of presidential pardons, granting clemency to Rudy Giuliani and dozens of political allies accused of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The announcement came on Sunday night, when Ed Martin, the Department of Justice’s pardon attorney, posted the signed proclamation on X (formerly Twitter). In the document, Trump described the action as a move to “end a grave national injustice” and promote “national reconciliation” following years of political division over the 2020 race.
Among the 77 individuals pardoned are former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Sidney Powelland John Eastman, as well as Trump’s Georgia co-defendants charged in connection with attempts to contest the state’s election outcome.
The proclamation grants a “full, complete, and unconditional pardon” to all named recipients.
A second version of the document, also shared by Martin, expands the language further — extending clemency to “all United States citizens” for actions connected to creating or advocating alternate slates of presidential electors or pursuing alleged election fraud in 2020. The order, signed November 7, notably excludes Trump himself.
While none of the high-profile figures had been convicted of federal crimes, the pardons serve as a symbolic political gesture, underscoring Trump’s continuing effort to reshape the narrative around the 2020 election and its aftermath, including the January 6 Capitol riot.
Giuliani, meanwhile, continues to face separate legal challenges, including a contempt of court ruling for refusing to produce financial documents in a defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers. Trump has previously hinted at plans to award Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
This latest wave of pardons follows Trump’s earlier clemency grants, including one for former New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry related to a 1995 tax evasion conviction. In January, Trump also pardoned around 1,500 individuals and commuted 14 sentences tied to the January 6 attack — actions sharply criticized by Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called them “an outrageous insult to our justice system.”
