Trump pardons dozens of allies who tried to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | As President Trump continues to push the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, he's taken a new step to protect former administration officials and his allies who've been accused of working to overturn the election that Joe Biden won. |
| 0:14.3 | White House correspondent Liz Landers reports on a series of pardons the president has granted. |
| 0:19.6 | The Justice Department announcing late Sunday evening that a slate of people involved in the president has granted. The Justice Department announcing late Sunday evening |
| 0:22.5 | that a slate of people involved in the alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results |
| 0:28.0 | have been pardoned by President Trump. Special attorney Ed Martin posting on social media that the |
| 0:33.7 | list of people, including Trump's former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, former White House |
| 0:38.5 | Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and attorney Sidney Powell, were pardoned Friday. In it, President |
| 0:44.6 | Trump grants a, quote, full, complete, and unconditional pardon to nearly 80 people in order to end a, quote, |
| 0:51.3 | grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people after the 2020 |
| 0:55.8 | election. |
| 0:57.1 | They were being shut down. |
| 0:58.7 | They were being silenced and why. |
| 1:00.3 | And the question was, what happened in the 2020 election? |
| 1:02.9 | The president continues to maintain, without evidence, that the 2020 election was rigged and he won. |
| 1:09.5 | After the 2020 election, Trump allies allegedly |
| 1:12.4 | worked together in a coordinated effort, according to the House January 6th Select Committee, |
| 1:17.4 | to submit alternate electors in key swing states like Arizona and Georgia that falsely certified |
| 1:23.2 | Trump won the election. One of those pardoned, Jeffrey Clark, a former top Justice Department lawyer who pushed to keep Trump in power. |
| 1:31.4 | He was indicted in Georgia in August 2023, along with Trump and more than a dozen others in an election racketeering scheme. |
| 1:39.3 | He took to social media on Monday morning to say Trump had personally called him to tell him about the pardon, |
| 1:44.5 | but also acknowledged his legal woes were not over. |
| 1:48.2 | Presidential pardons only apply to federal crimes, making Trump's move largely symbolic. |
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