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 of 77 people, which includes conservative attorneys Sidney Powell , John Eastman and Trump ally Kenneth Chesebro.

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The proclamation, posted online late Sunday, explicitly says the pardon does not apply to Trump himself.

Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes. None of the Trump allies named were charged in a federal case and pres

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