President Donald Trump has proclaimed a “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon for his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused in state courts of backing his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, and none of the Trump allies named were charged in federal cases over the 2020 election. But the move underscores Trump’s continued efforts to rewrite the history of the election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. The signed proclamation posted on social media by Ed Martin, the government’s pardon attorney, also names conservative attorneys Sidney Powell and John Eastman .

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