#Socialites, come get into this not-so-shocking news: President Donald Trump just dropped another bombshell on the nation’s timeline, and honestly? Nobody’s even surprised at this point…
Late Sunday night, Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin hit X with a major post. He revealed that Trump went ahead and pardoned Rudy Giuliani along with a whole squad of folks accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election. Martin even threw it back to an old message of his from May where he said, “No MAGA left behind.” Looks like he meant that for real.
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According to NBC, the list of pardoned names is deep, too about 77 people. We’re talking Trump-world regulars: Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, and Mark Meadows, who was Trump’s chief of staff back in 2020. Basically, the A-team of the “Stop the Steal” era just got a presidential “get outta jail free” card even though most of them weren’t actually convicted of anything.
Here’s how the proclamation reads, straight from Martin’s post:
“I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities in, or advocacy for or of any slate of presidential electors … in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election.”
It also covers:
“any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election.”
Translation? If you were part of the “we wuz robbed” campaign from planning fake elector schemes to filing lawsuits that went nowhere you just got blessed…
One interesting footnote though: the proclamation clearly says the pardon does not apply to Trump himself. So while he’s out here passing grace around like communion, he didn’t include his own name in the offering plate.
Since sliding back into the Oval Office, Trump’s been on a mission to rewrite the whole 2020 narrative.
That’s the one the House Jan. 6 Committee spent a year and a half investigating, the same saga that ended with a mob storming the Capitol as Congress was about to certify Joe Biden’s win. Trump’s message is clear: he’s not trying to relive the shame; he’s trying to flip the script.
And Giuliani? Whew, that man’s been through it. Earlier this year, a federal judge found him in contempt for dodging orders to show his assets to two Georgia election workers he defamed. Still, Trump announced back in September that he planned to honor Rudy with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Now, this isn’t Trump’s first “clean-up” tour either. In January, he handed out around 1,500 pardons and even commuted the sentences of 14 people connected to the January 6 attack including Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members. Nancy Pelosi wasn’t having it though, calling those earlier pardons “an outrageous insult to our justice system.”
Trump nor the White House released a statement regarding these pardons. Until then, let us know your thoughts in the comments box below!