On Sunday, President Donald Trump preemptively pardoned greater than 75 traitorous goons who helped him attempt to steal the 2020 election. This included disgraced ex-New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani and disbarred right-wing lawyer John Eastman—the one who got here up with the authorized technique to assist Trump overturn the election outcomes.
Proper-wing lawyer John Eastman
The 77 pardons—introduced by Trump’s moronic and corrupt pardon legal professional Ed Martin—have been symbolic, as not one of the individuals are dealing with federal fees for his or her disgraceful try and function so-called “alternate electors” to the Electoral Faculty so Trump might steal then-President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Nevertheless, it is indicative of Trump’s perception that individuals who help him are above the regulation—primarily granting them carte blanche to commit crimes as they gained’t face punishment for doing so.
Martin introduced the pardons by publishing the doc itemizing all the pardons in a thread on X, the place he had beforehand stated, “no MAGA left behind.”
Apart from Giuliani and Eastman, the pardons additionally embody:
Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White Home chief of employees who helped coordinate the hassle to steal the election.
And Boris Epshteyn, a Trump ally who presently serves as a particular adviser to Trump who aided Giuliani within the faux elector scheme.
The pardons are the most recent in Trump’s despicable efforts to reward law-breaking and corrupt Republicans.
On Friday, Trump pardoned former Tennessee Home Speaker Glen Casada, who was serving 36 months in federal jail on fraud fees. Trump additionally commuted the sentence of expelled New York GOP Rep. George Santos, releasing the fraudster from jail years earlier than his sentence was set to run out. And he pardoned billionaire crypto Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao who does enterprise with Trump’s grifting sons.
“Pardoning the good guys” by Clay Bennett
These are on prime of the pardons of a whole lot of insurrectionists who both pleaded responsible to, have been convicted of, or have been set to face trial for his or her position within the riots on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Various these criminals have dedicated extra crimes since Trump’s act of clemency.
An much more horrendous pardon is also on the best way. Congressional Democrats say that convicted felon Ghislaine Maxwell is looking for a commutation of her 20-year jail sentence for her position in Jeffrey Epstein’s sick little one intercourse trafficking operation.
