A look at prominent people pardoned by Trump after they tried to overturn his 2020 election loss
November 10, 2025
Most of the notable people President Donald Trump is pardoning after they helped try to overturn his 2020 election loss face legal jeopardy in state or civil courts so the pardons won’t effect their cases. But they are part of the latest effort by the Republican president to rewrite the history of his attempt to reverse his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Those pardoned include former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and conservative law professor John Eastman. They have been targeted in various states for their 2020 actions but deny wrongdoing.