Trump pardons 77 allies involved in 2020 'fake electors' case, including Giuliani

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00:00President Trump has granted a sweeping set of pardons for 77 individuals, tied to a plot

00:05to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

00:08The full list of those pardoned, each of the president's co-defendants who face charges

00:12related to the 2020 fake electors plot, was posted to X, just before 11 p.m. on Sunday

00:18by Trump's clemency czar, attorney Ed Martin.

00:22Those given a full, complete and unconditional pardon were allegedly entangled in a scheme

00:27to organize alternate slates of electors from battleground states that former Vice President

00:32Joe Biden won, including Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan.

00:38The fake electors scheme eventually led to the violent attempt by the president's supporters

00:42to halt the certification of the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.

00:48Among those pardoned are Trump's close allies, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro.

00:54Pardons also went to former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and other 2020 campaign aides

01:00who allegedly worked together to submit names of fake electors from the four states to Congress

01:04to keep him in office.

01:06Trump advisors John Eastman, Christina Bobb and Boris Epstein were also among the dozens

01:11of prominent figures pardoned.

01:13Notably, the sweeping proclamation, which Trump signed on Friday, does not pardon Trump himself.

01:19This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, a line

01:23near the end of the document, said,

01:25"...the pardons are mainly symbolic because none of the 77 individuals were charged on

01:29the federal level, though they could prevent future administrations from prosecuting the

01:34alleged co-conspirators.

01:36This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetuated among the American people following

01:40the 2020 presidential election and continues the process of national reconciliation," Trump

01:46wrote in the pardoning document.

01:47Trump previously pardoned more than 1,000 of those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on inauguration

01:52night.

01:53He also made headlines last week for an unrelated pardon, that of Changpeng CZ Xiao, the billionaire

01:59founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

02:02Xiao was pardoned on October 23rd after having served four months in prison last year for failing

02:07to maintain anti-money laundering controls at Binance in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act,

02:13a charge he pleaded guilty to.

02:15Trump was asked about the pardon during his interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes, to which

02:19he replied that he didn't know who Xiao was.

02:21Why did you pardon him?

02:22Okay, are you ready?

02:23I don't know who he is.

02:25This comes after The Post reported on October 12th that the White House had ramped up internal

02:29debate over whether to pardon Xiao, who had been lobbying to erase his felony conviction

02:34and reopen the door to his company's return to the U.S. market.

02:37Some officials expressed concern over the optics of potential ties between Xiao's business

02:42ventures and the Trump family's crypto business.

02:44The Wall Street Journal reported that Xiao's representatives discussed the possibility of

02:48a deal between Binance and World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's cryptocurrency

02:52venture, that could be used as leverage for a pardon.

02:56Xiao denied the allegation during an interview with Fox News.

02:58That's completely not accurate.

02:59There's no deal.

03:00There's no deal.

03:01There has never been any discussions.

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