POTUS pardons dozens of allies linked to alleged 2020 ‘alternative electors’ plan
President Donald Trump on Monday issued a broad pardon for 77 individuals involved in fighting alleged voter fraud in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election
by Summer Lane | November 10, 2025
President Donald Trump has pardoned dozens of individuals who have been legally pursued in the aftermath of their efforts to question the results of the 2020 presidential election, testing the boundaries of his executive pardon authority.
High-profile Trump allies linked to a so-called “alternative electors” scheme who have been pardoned include former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump attorney Christina Bobb, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Turning Point USA COO Tyler Bower, Trump Senior Counsel and attorney Boris Ephsteyn, and former Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
The news was announced by Ed Martin, the U.S. Pardon Attorney.
He wrote, “…President Trump pardoned the 2020 Alternative Electors. Thank you: @POTUS for allowing me, as U.S. Pardon Attorney, to work with @WhiteHouse, along with @AGPamBondi, @DAGToddBlanche & SG John Sauer, to achieve your intent—let their healing begin.”
According to Politico, none of those included in the president’s pardon list have been charged with federal crimes. However, Jenna Ellis, for example, pleaded guilty in 2023 to several state charges in a 2020 Georgia-based election subversion case.
Sidney Powell – another lawyer who gained notoriety in the aftermath of the 2020 election – also pleaded guilty in 2023 to similar charges related to Georgia election interference allegations.
Rudy Giuliani has also been plagued by numerous legal woes linked to his work surrounding the 2020 election. According to the BBC, Giuliani was not only disbarred as a lawyer in New York last year, but he was also previously charged in a lawsuit with felony counts related to an alleged “elector scheme” in Arizona.
These types of charges have followed many in the election integrity movement, like the now-pardoned Christina Bobb, who worked with President Trump after 2020 to examine or discuss the presidential election results. Bobb, like Giuliani, was indicted on felony counts related to an alleged “fake electors” plot in Arizona.
“…To think of the money, resources, and man hours wasted defending against charges that never should have been brought. Thank you, President Trump,” said Andrew Kolvet, Executive Producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show.”
The president’s pardons, according to the documents released by Ed Martin, apply to “conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election.”
