President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon applies only to federal crimes, and none of the dozens of Trump allies named in the proclamation were ever charged federally over the bid to subvert the election won by Democrat Joe Biden. It doesn’t impact state charges, though state prosecutions stemming from the 2020 election have hit a dead end or are just limping along.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    It wasn’t just rudy:

    Late Sunday night, Justice Department attorney Ed Martin posted a list of over 70 people who would receive pardons. Many of the figures included were named as unindicted co-conspirators or charged at the state level for their roles in the plot to knowingly spread false claims of widespread voter fraud in an attempt to push states to reject former President Joe Biden’s victories in key swing states and pressure Vice President Mike Pence into stopping the certification of the election.

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-pardons-2020-coup-plotters

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Hopefully the States get them. President can’t pardon State charges, but we all know he will threaten to anyways but let him expose himself more. The busier he is fighting or seething about anything unrelated, the less time he has to get other agenda stuff done. Keep him as busy as he is keeping online article writers.