Trump's 2020 election pardons.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin announced that President Donald Trump had pardoned several top aides and advisers from his first administration, as well as dozens of people involved in his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election. Those receiving pardons include President Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, adviser Boris Epshteyn, and attorneys Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, and Sidney Powell. None of the recipients has been charged with a federal crime, but the pardon will protect them from future prosecution related to the 2020 election (though they can still be prosecuted at the state level).
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| 0:00.0 | from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle good morning good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get |
| 0:24.4 | views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:30.5 | I am your host today, senior editor Will Kayback, and today we are going to be covering President |
| 0:36.4 | Trump's pardons. We've done a few issues on |
| 0:39.3 | pardons issued by the president. Today, we're going to be focusing on the pardons that he issued on |
| 0:44.2 | Monday for members of his first administration, some of his attorneys in that administration, |
| 0:49.3 | and other Republican allies who are involved in his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results. |
| 0:56.3 | So I will pass it over to John in a second to get into the background on the topic and what the |
| 1:01.5 | left and right are saying about it. But before we do that, a quick reminder. On Friday, |
| 1:06.5 | we published a piece written by Isaac about the Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes interview. |
| 1:12.0 | And in case you're not familiar, Fuentes is a far-right commentator who is known for regularly |
| 1:17.2 | espousing anti-Semitic and white nationalist views. And the interview set off a wave of discourse, |
| 1:22.7 | particularly on the right and within the right. Some of those people criticized Carlson's |
| 1:27.4 | interview style. |
| 1:28.7 | Others pondered the future of MAGA post-Trump and where Fuentes fits into that. |
| 1:33.5 | But something was more interesting to Isaac than either of those debates. And that was |
| 1:38.2 | Fuentes' origin story, according to him how he described it in the interview with Carlson. |
| 1:44.0 | So in that addition, Isaac got into what he learned and how he thinks we can prevent more people like Fuentes from emerging in the future. |
| 1:51.6 | If you're a member, you can listen to that full piece on the podcast, and we encourage you to do so if you haven't already. |
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| 2:01.3 | get the full thing. All right, I'm going to pass it over to John now to get us into today's topic, |
| 2:05.2 | and then I will be back to read my take. John, over to you. |
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