WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump has issued pardons to Rudy Giuliani, his previous personal lawyer, as well as his ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows, among others. These individuals were accused of supporting Trump’s attempts to challenge the 2020 election results, according to an official from the Justice Department.

Ed Martin, the government’s pardon attorney, shared the announcement on social media, featuring a signed declaration for a “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon. This document also included conservative lawyers Sidney Powell and John Eastman. Notably, the proclamation, which surfaced online late Sunday, clarifies that the pardon does not extend to Trump himself.

Presidential pardons pertain solely to federal offenses, and none of Trump’s associates listed had been federally charged concerning the 2020 election. However, this action highlights Trump’s ongoing efforts to reshape the narrative of the election he lost to Joe Biden. It follows comprehensive pardons granted to numerous Trump supporters involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, including those guilty of assaulting law enforcement officers.

The proclamation characterized the prosecution attempts against those accused of aiding Trump’s bid to remain in office as “a grave national injustice perpetrated on the American people,” asserting that the pardons aim to further “the process of national reconciliation.”

The White House has not yet responded to an inquiry seeking comment as of Monday.

Also pardoned were Republicans who acted as fake electors for Trump in 2020 and were charged in state cases of submitting false certificates that confirmed they were legitimate electors despite Biden’s victory in those states.

Trump himself was indicted on felony charges accusing him of working overturn his 2020 election defeat, but the case brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith was abandoned in November after Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris because of the department’s policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.

Giuliani, Meadows and others who were named in the proclamation had been charged by state prosecutors over the 2020 election, but the cases have hit a dead end or are just limping along. A judge in September dismissed the Michigan case against 15 Republicans accused of attempting to falsely certify Trump as the winner of the election in that battleground state.