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Worst masterminds of Trump's attempted coup get pardons



On Sunday, President Donald Trump preemptively pardoned more than 75
traitorous goons who helped him try to steal the 2020 election. This included
disgraced ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and disbarred right-wing lawyer
John Eastman—the one who came up with the legal strategy to help Trump overturn
the election results.



The 77 pardons—announced by Trump's moronic and corrupt pardon attorney Ed
Martin—were symbolic, as none of the people are facing federal charges for
their disgraceful attempt to serve as so-called "alternate electors" to the
Electoral College so Trump could steal then-President-elect Joe Biden's victory.




 



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However, it's indicative of Trump's belief that people who support him are
above the law—essentially granting them carte blanche to commit crimes as they
won’t face punishment for doing so.

Martin announced the pardons by publishing the document listing all of the
pardons in a thread on X, where he had previously said, "no MAGA left behind."

Aside from Giuliani and Eastman, the pardons also include:

Sidney Powell, the lunatic former member of Trump’s legal team who stood
alongside Giuliani in an insane news conference after Trump’s 2020 loss in
which she claimed a dead Venezuelan dictator conspired with voting machine
companies to steal the election from Trump. Her deranged rantings got her sued
for millions from the voting machine companies she defamed.

Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff who helped coordinate
the effort to steal the election.

And Boris Epshteyn, a Trump ally who currently serves as a special adviser to
Trump who aided Giuliani in the fake elector scheme.




 



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The pardons are the latest in Trump's despicable efforts to reward
law-breaking and corrupt Republicans.

On Friday, Trump pardoned former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada, who was
serving 36 months in federal prison on fraud charges. Trump also commuted the
sentence of expelled New York GOP Rep. George Santos, releasing the fraudster
from prison years before his sentence was set to expire. And he pardoned
billionaire crypto Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao who does business with Trump's
grifting sons.



Those are on top of the pardons of hundreds of insurrectionists who either
pleaded guilty to, were convicted of, or were set to face trial for their role
in the riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A number of those criminals have
committed more crimes since Trump's act of clemency.

An even more horrendous pardon could also be on the way. Congressional
Democrats say that convicted felon Ghislaine Maxwell is seeking a commutation
of her 20-year prison sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sick child sex
trafficking operation.

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) released
documents of Maxwell's commutation application, and warned Trump against
granting her clemency, NBC News reported on Monday.

“You should not grant any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant
sex offender,” Raskin wrote in a letter to Trump, ABC News reported. “Your
Administration should not be providing her with room service, with puppies to
play with, with federal law enforcement officials waiting on her every need, or
with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”



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