ByAlison Durkee,
Forbes Staff.
President Donald Trump pardoned dozens of Republicans late Sunday who helped his efforts to overturn the 2020 election—many of whom also worked for him or gave money to his campaign—the latest pardons and commutations in Trump’s second term granted to people with direct political or financial ties to the president.
November 9Trump issued pardons to nearly 80 people for playing roles in “any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors,” as well as for “any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 presidential election”—noting the pardons could also extend to others involved with the 2020 election efforts, but does not include Trump himself.
Those pardoned include the “fake electors” who approved fraudulent slates of electors falsely claiming Trump had won their state in the 2020 election, as well as a number of former Trump lawyers who worked with him to challenge the election results, such as Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, Christina Bobb, John Eastman.
