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The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.
There’s a growing movement by Republicans to void some of the pardons issued by President Joe Biden. It would be an unprecedented maneuver of political retribution, and something for which there is no basis in the Constitution or existing law. The power to pardon is set up for the president as one of the few unchecked powers in American government.
The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.
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Rudy Giuliani said he was “surprised” to receive a pardon from President Trump in the alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election results – and said The Post was vindicated for its exclusive
President Trump pardoned his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and a slate of other key figures charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a U.S.
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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.
President Donald Trump has ordered “full, complete, and unconditional” pardons for over 70 of his political allies.
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Trump pardons 6 Republican Nevada ‘fake electors’President Donald Trump pardoned several people involved in efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election, including six so-called Republican fake electors in Nevada who mailed phony electoral certificates claiming he won that race.
The pardons may be largely symbolic as none of the people listed were convicted of federal crimes, which the presidential pardon covers.
Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, and none of the Trump allies named were charged in a federal case. Presidents have no power to pardon state crimes.