WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani , his former chief of staff M ark 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 Sidney Powell , an attorney who promoted b aseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election, and J ohn Eastman, another lawyer who pu shed a plan to keep T rump in power. The proclamation, posted online late Sunday, explicitly says the pardon does not apply to Trump.

Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, and none of the Trump allies named were charged in f

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