President Donald Trump attends inauguration ceremonies in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Monday that he had pardoned his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others allegedly involved in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but the federal presidential pardon does not shield members of the group from state charges.
Posted on social media early Monday morning, U.S. Attorney Ed Martin released the names of 77 people for whom Trump signed federal pardons in a Nov. 7 proclamation. Martin is an attorney who represented several people charged in the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection.
After losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump encouraged his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol and prevent Congress from certifying the election results. He was later impeached a second time by the House in connection with the insurrection, but the Senate acquitted him.
This is the latest move by the president since his return to the White House, aimed at absolving anyone involved in efforts to overturn former President Joe Biden’s victory or challenge his victory. The proclamation indicated that the pardons were granted in response to “grave national injustice.”
The list includes former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Sidney Powell, a lawyer who was indicted along with Trump in the Georgia election case for overturning the state’s 2020 presidential election results.
The proclamation, which only addresses federal charges, is symbolic and does not prevent state-level prosecutions. It is alleged that many of the people on the list were him part of a phony voter conspiracy to submit false certifications claiming Trump won battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania AND Wisconsininstead of Biden.
The White House did not respond to States Newsroom’s request for comment.
“Sorry for the plot”
A coalition of over 100 pro-democracy groups, Not Above the Law, has condemned the president’s move to pardon those involved in trying to disrupt the 2020 presidential election.
“Trump doesn’t just forgive people – he forgives conspiracy and tries to rewrite history,” the coalition says. “He creates a two-tiered justice system in which he and his allies operate above the law. In Trump’s America, loyalty outweighs responsibility to the Constitution and our federal laws.”
The list includes:
- Mark Amick, false elector from Georgia.
- Kathy Berden, phony elector from Michigan.
- Christina Bobb, Trump’s former personal lawyer.
- Tyler Bowyer, false elector from Arizona.
- Joseph Brannan, false elector from Georgia.
- Carol Brunner, phony elector from Wisconsin.
- Mary Buestrin, phony elector from Wisconsin.
- Darryl Carlson, false elector from Wisconsin.
- James “Ken” Carroll, false elector from Georgia.
- Brad Carver, false elector from Georgia.
- Robert Cheeley, lawyer who pushed false claims about the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
- Kenneth Chesebro, architect of the phony voter conspiracy.
- Hank Choate, the phony elector from Michigan.
- Jeffrey Clark, a Trump lawyer who allegedly assisted the president in his failed attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
- Vikki Townsend Consiglio, phony elector from Georgia.
- Nancy Cottle, false elector from Arizona.
- James DeGraffenreid, false elector from Nevada.
- John Downey, false elector from Georgia.
- John Eastman, the alleged architect of the fraudulent voter conspiracy.
- Jenna Ellis, a Trump lawyer who allegedly assisted the president in his failed attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
- Boris Epshteyn, Trump adviser, charged in Arizona with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state.
- Amy Facchinello, phony elector from Michigan.
- Bill Feehan, false elector from Wisconsin.
- Carolyn Hall Fisher, phony elector from Georgia.
- Harrison Floyd, the lawyer who allegedly tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
- Clifford Frost, false elector from Michigan.
- Gloria Kay Godwin, who tried to obtain signatures for a petition to cancel the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
- Edward Scott Grabins, false elector from Wisconsin.
- Stanley Grot, false elector from Michigan.
- John Haggard, false elector from Michigan.
- Scott Hall, first to plead guilty in Georgia’s 2020 election overturn case.
- Misty Hampton, indicted in Fulton County, Georgia election interference case.
- David G. Hanna, false elector from Georgia.
- Mark W. Hennessy, false elector from Georgia.
- Mari-Ann Henry, phony elector from Michigan.
- Durward James Hindle III, false elector of Nevada.
- Andrew Hitt, false elector from Wisconsin.
- Jake Hoffman, false elector from Arizona.
- Burt Jones, false elector from Georgia.
- Anthony T. Kern, false elector from Arizona.
- Kathy Kiernan, phony elector from Wisconsin.
- Timothy King, false elector from Michigan.
- Trevian Kutti, former columnist for Kayne West, now Ye, accused of intimidating Fulton County election workers into falsely admitting ballot fraud in the 2020 election.
- James Lamon, false elector from Arizona.
- Cathleen Alston Latham, phony elector from Georgia.
- Jesse Law, false elector from Nevada.
- Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a Chicago pastor accused of intimidating election workers in Fulton County into falsely admitting ballot fraud in the 2020 election.
- Michele Lundgren, false elector from Michigan.
- Meshawn Maddock, false elector from Michigan.
- Michael J. McDonald, false elector from Nevada.
- Shawn Meehan, false elector from Nevada.
- Robert Montgomery, false elector from Arizona.
- Daryl Moody, false elector from Georgia.
- Samuel I. Moorhead, false elector from Arizona.
- Loraine B. Pellegrino, false elector from Arizona.
- James Renner, false elector from Michigan.
- Eileen Rice, phony elector from Nevada.
- Mayra Rodriguez, phony elector from Michigan.
- Mike Roman, Trump’s Wisconsin lawyer who allegedly participated in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
- Rose Rook, phony elector from Michigan.
- Kelly Ruh, phony elector from Wisconsin.
- Greg Safsten, the false elector from Arizona.
- David Shafer, false elector from Georgia.
- Marian Sheridan, false elector from Michigan.
- Ray Stallings Smith III, Trump’s lawyer who allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
- Robert F. Spindell Jr., false elector from Wisconsin.
- Shawn Still, the phony elector from Georgia.
- Ken Thompson, false elector from Michigan.
- Pam Travis, phony elector from Wisconsin.
- James Troupis, the alleged architect of the fraudulent voter conspiracy.
- Kent Vanderwood, false elector from Michigan.
- Kelli Ward, the phony elector from Arizona.
- Michael Ward, false elector from Arizona.
- CB Yadav, phony elector from Georgia.
