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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump issues pardons for Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and others involved in 2020 fake elector scheme

The White House announced late Sunday evening that Donald Trump had issued pardons for members of his 2020 campaign legal team, including Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, for their involvement in a scheme to alter the slates of electors chosen by states that voted against the Republican nominee in that year’s presidential election.

A statement announcing a list of 77 people who were pardoned was tweeted out late Sunday evening, at 10:54 p.m. local time, by Trump’s “clemency czar” Ed Martin.

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