President Donald Trump attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2025 (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Monday that he has pardoned his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others allegedly involved in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but the president’s federal pardon does not shield the group’s members from state charges.
Posting on social media early Monday, U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin released the names of 77 people for whom Trump had signed federal pardons in a Nov. 7 proclamation. Martin is an attorney who represented several people charged in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
After losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump urged his supporters to storm the US Capitol and stop Congress from certifying the election results. He was later impeached a second time by the House of Representatives in connection with the insurrection, but the Senate acquitted him.
It is the president’s latest move after returning to the White House to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn or challenge former President Joe Biden’s victory. The proclamation states that pardons were granted to remedy “a grave national injustice.”
The list includes former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Sidney Powell, a lawyer who was indicted along with Trump in a Georgia election trial on charges he overturned the state’s results in the 2020 presidential election.
The proclamation, which only addresses federal charges, is symbolic and does not prevent prosecution at the state level. Many of the people named on the list are said to have been Part of the fake voter conspiracy submitting fraudulent certificates claiming Trump won battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania And Wisconsininstead of Biden.
The White House did not respond to States Newsroom’s request for comment.
“Pardon a conspiracy”
A coalition of more than 100 pro-democracy groups, Not Above the Law, condemned the president’s move to pardon people involved in trying to undermine the 2020 presidential election.
“Trump isn’t just pardoning people – he’s pardoning a conspiracy and trying to rewrite history,” the coalition said. “He is creating a two-tier justice system in which he and his allies are above the law. In Trump’s America, loyalty trumps accountability to the Constitution and our federal laws.”
The list includes:
- Mark Amick, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Kathy Berden, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Christina Bobb, a former personal lawyer for Trump.
- Tyler Bowyer, a fake voter from Arizona.
- Joseph Brannan, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Carol Brunner, a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- Mary Buestrin, a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- Darryl Carlson, a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- James “Ken” Carroll, a bogus voter from Georgia.
- Brad Carver, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Robert Cheeley, a lawyer who made false claims about the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
- Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the fake voter conspiracy.
- Hank Choate, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Jeffrey Clark, a Trump lawyer who reportedly assisted the president in his failed attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
- Vikki Townsend Consiglio, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Nancy Cottle, a fake voter from Arizona.
- James DeGraffenreid, a fake voter from Nevada.
- John Downey, a fake voter from Georgia.
- John Eastman, an alleged architect of the fake voter conspiracy.
- Jenna Ellis, a Trump lawyer who reportedly assisted the president in his failed attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
- Boris Epshteyn, a Trump adviser who was indicted in Arizona for trying to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results.
- Amy Facchinello, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Bill Feehan, a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- Carolyn Hall Fisher, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Harrison Floyd, a lawyer who allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
- Clifford Frost, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Gloria Kay Godwin, who attempted to collect signatures for a recall petition in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
- Edward Scott Grabins, a bogus voter from Wisconsin.
- Stanley Grot, a fake voter from Michigan.
- John Haggard, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Scott Hall, the first to plead guilty in the 2020 Georgia election subversion case.
- Misty Hampton, who was charged in the election interference case in Fulton County, Georgia.
- David G. Hanna, a bogus voter from Georgia.
- Mark W. Hennessy, a bogus voter from Georgia.
- Mari-Ann Henry, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Durward James Hindle III, a bogus voter from Nevada.
- Andrew Hitt, a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- Jake Hoffman, a fake voter from Arizona.
- Burt Jones, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Anthony T. Kern, a fake voter from Arizona.
- Kathy Kiernan, a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- Timothy King, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Trevian Kutti, former publicist for Kayne West, now Ye, who was accused of intimidating Fulton County poll workers into falsely admitting to casting fraudulent ballots in the 2020 election.
- James Lamon, a fake voter from Arizona.
- Cathleen Alston Latham, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Jesse Law, a fake voter from Nevada.
- Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a Chicago pastor accused of intimidating poll workers in Fulton County into falsely admitting to casting fraudulent ballots in the 2020 election.
- Michele Lundgren, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Meshawn Maddock, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Michael J. McDonald, a bogus voter from Nevada.
- Shawn Meehan, a fake voter from Nevada.
- Robert Montgomery, a fake voter from Arizona.
- Daryl Moody, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Samuel I. Moorhead, a false elector from Arizona.
- Loraine B. Pellegrino, a fake voter from Arizona.
- James Renner, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Eileen Rice, a fake voter from Nevada.
- Mayra Rodriguez, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Mike Roman, a Trump lawyer from Wisconsin who was allegedly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
- Rose Rook, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Kelly Ruh, a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- Greg Safsten, a fake voter from Arizona.
- David Shafer, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Marian Sheridan, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Ray Stallings Smith III, a Trump lawyer who allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
- Robert F. Spindell Jr., a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- Shawn Still, a fake voter from Georgia.
- Ken Thompson, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Pam Travis, a fake voter from Wisconsin.
- James Troupis, an alleged architect of the fake voter conspiracy.
- Kent Vanderwood, a fake voter from Michigan.
- Kelli Ward, a fake voter from Arizona.
- Michael Ward, a fake voter from Arizona.
- CB Yadav, a fake voter from Georgia.

