President Trump granted pardons for 77 individuals tied to a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election — including his close allies Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, a Justice Department attorney announced late Sunday.
The full list of those pardoned, each of the president’s co-defendants who faced charges related to the 2020 “fake electors” plot, was posted to X just before 11 p.m. by Trump’s “clemency czar,” attorney Ed Martin.
President Trump speaking to the press at Joint Base Andrews on Nov. 9, 2025. AFP via Getty ImagesMartin shared the pardon document in a reply to his May 26, 2025, post that read “No MAGA left behind.”
Those given a “full, complete and unconditional” pardon were allegedly entangled in a scheme to organize alternate slates of electors from battleground states that former Vice President Joe Biden won, including Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan.
“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 pardoning document.
Booking photo of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Booking photo of Sidney Powell. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Booking photo of John Eastman. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE/AFP via Getty ImagesPardons also went to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and other 2020 campaign aides who allegedly worked together to submit names of fake electors from the four states to Congress to keep him in office.
Trump advisers John Eastman, Christina Bobb and Boris Epshteyn were also among the dozens of prominent figures pardoned.
The sweeping proclamation, which Trump signed on Friday, notably does not pardon Trump himself.
“This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” a line near the end of the document said.
(Clockwise from top left) Scott Hall, Harrison Floyd, Jenna Ellis, Ray Smith, Kenneth Chesebro, Cathy Latham.
(Clockwise from top left) David Shafer, Misty Hampton, Trevian Kutti, Shawn Still, Michael Roman, Jeffrey Clark.
Stephen Cliffgard Lee in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 25, 2023. via REUTERS
Robert Cheeley in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 25, in Atlanta, Georgia. Fulton County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERSThe pardons are mainly symbolic because none of the 77 individuals were charged on the federal level, though they could prevent future administrations from prosecuting the alleged co-conspirators.
The “fake electors” scheme eventually led to the violent attempt by the president’s supporters to halt the certification of the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump pardoned more than 1,000 of those who stormed the Capitol on inauguration night.
