WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and dozens of other allies accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, a U.S. Justice Department official said on Monday, in a largely symbolic move that does not apply to any state charges.

Trump, in a proclamation dated on Friday, said the move would end “a grave national injustice” and “continue the process of national reconciliation,” according to a document posted on X by Ed Martin, who oversees the department’s weaponization group that was set up to look into improper politically motivated cases.

The Justice Department had been investigating a plan by Trump and his supporters to submit alternative slates of state electors to reverse President Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 presidential

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