Donald Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in trying to overturn 2020 election
US President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani as well as several others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election, a Justice Department official says.
Mr Giuliani was formerly the mayor of New York and Mr Trump’s personal lawyer until he was disbarred last year.
Justice Department Pardon Attorney Ed Martin posted on social media a signed proclamation of the “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon, which also names conservative attorneys Sidney Powell and John Eastman. […]
Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, and none of the Trump allies were charged in a federal case.
But the move underscores Mr Trump’s efforts to continue to rewrite the history of the 2020 election he lost to Democratic nominee Joe Biden. […]
Mr Giuliani and others who were named in the proclamation had been charged by state prosecutors over the 2020 election, but the cases have hit a dead end or are just limping along.
A judge in September dismissed the Michigan case against 15 Republicans accused of attempting to falsely certify Mr Trump as the winner of the election in that battleground state.
So it’s kind of an empty gesture in that it has no real immediate effect, but it’s also a useful shot in the propaganda war. Mushroom Cock’s got to keep that myth alive even though it’s pointless now. I only wish he’d let Four Seasons Total Landscaping make the announcement, that might at least have made it funny…
