Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election, official says

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FILE - Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani participates in a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani , his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a Justice Department official says.

Ed Martin, the government's pardon attorney, posted on social media a signed proclamation of the “full, complete, and unconditional" pardon, which also names conservative attorneys Sidney Powell and John Eastman . The proclamation, posted online late Sunday, explicitly says the pa