So did Mark Meadows
Innocent as newborn babes, they did nothing wrong. Right?
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.
The “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon applies only to federal crimes, and none of the dozens of Trump allies named in the proclamation were ever charged federally over the bid to subvert the election won by Democrat Joe Biden. It doesn’t impact state charges, though state prosecutions stemming from the 2020 election have hit a dead end or are just limping along.
Dozens? But wait! There’s more:
Among those also pardoned were Sidney Powell, an attorney who promoted baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election, John Eastman, another lawyer who pushed a plan to keep Trump in power, and Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who championed Trump’s efforts to challenge his election loss. Also named were Republicans who acted as fake electors for Trump and were charged in state cases accusing them of submitting false certificates that confirmed they were legitimate electors despite Biden’s victory in those states.
Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin., posted the full list (4 pages) to FKA Twitter. Trump did not pardon himself … yet. Not until, if he lasts that long, he’s leaving office in January 2029.
A commenter asked, “Where is Tina Peters?!?!?”
Martin replies, “We are working on it!” CNN reports that Martin is working behind the scenes on a habeas petition that Peters filed in March. He’s “urged a federal judge to free her from state prison while she appeals her conviction. That matter is still pending, but a decision is expected this year.”
Peters was sentenced on October 2 on Colorado charges a Trump pardon cannot touch:
Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday for her role in a 2021 security breach in the elections office she was supposed to oversee.
Peters will spend the next six weeks to six months in the Mesa County Detention Facility before being transferred to the Colorado Department of Corrections, where she will serve her nine-year prison sentence.
The state judge in her case told Peters, “You are no hero…. You abused your position and you’re a charlatan.” That makes her a hero in Trump’s mind. Birds of a feather and all.
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