The Daily Populous Monday November 10th, 2025 day edition
Authored by edition.cnn.com and submitted by hoosakiwi

President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in alleged plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin.

The individuals listed in a proclamation, which Martin posted on X late Sunday, include high-profile figures like Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and the president’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, among dozens of others.

“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” read the document, which gives the date of November 7 in its text and the president appears to have signed.

It includes a “full, complete, and unconditional pardon” for those named, including some of the president’s co-defendants who were charged in Georgia for trying to subvert Trump’s 2020 election defeat.

Presidential pardons only apply to federal charges, not state or local charges. The pardon also explicitly states that it does not apply to President Trump.

CNN has reached out to the White House and Martin’s office for comment.

Also last week, the president granted clemency to a retired New York City police officer who was convicted in 2023 for stalking a New Jersey family on behalf of the Chinese government.

Trump also pardoned former Major League Baseball star Darryl Strawberry for a 1995 tax evasion charge.

keonyn on November 10th, 2025 at 08:55 UTC »

Presidential pardons need to go away. Giving a politician the means to have people commit crimes on his behalf so he has the power to then pardon them of those crimes is just an asinine concept.

mulder00 on November 10th, 2025 at 08:36 UTC »

Pardons have to got to be worst or one of the worst powers a President has. Commit any crime you want, but curry favor with the Leader and it shall be absolved.

"Pardons exist to provide a mechanism for mercy, to correct a miscarriage of justice, or to promote reconciliation and public welfare."

Hmm, Rudy just screams all 3 of those...

nerdwerds on November 10th, 2025 at 08:32 UTC »

I’m only surprised he didn’t do it sooner.