Trump Pardons Right a Grievous Wrong
By issuing pardons to those who helped him contest the rigged election of 2020, Donald Trump made clear once again that a weaponized government is a government run amok.
by Douglas Andrews November 10, 2025
Last night, President Donald Trump exercised his Article II, Section 2 power to grant pardons to some of his most intrepid supporters during the chaotic aftermath of the rigged 2020 election. In doing so, he at least partially righted some of the most grievous wrongs of the Autopen Administration.
The Constitution states that the president has the authority to “grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” Read it and weep, you lawfare lefties.
The only question I have is: What took Trump so long? The pardons, after all, come months after the president pardoned approximately 1,500 January 6 defendants.
As the proclamation issued last night by Trump’s pardon attorney, Ed Martin, put it, the pardon extends “to all United States citizens for 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.”
As Martin put it in a separate post: “POTUS encouraged us to look at two categories of Americans especially: First, those who needed and deserved clemency, especially long serving inmates who are ready to be released. Second, he wanted us to look at those people who had been targeted by the Biden administration. The targeted is a huge group of Americans.”
Or, more succinctly, as Martin said back in May: “No MAGA left behind.”
When Trump won reelection resoundingly last year, I figured it was only a matter of time before such legal stalwarts as Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, as well as key advisers such as then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, were pardoned. For example, the lawfare leveled against Eastman, a constitutional scholar, was nothing short of vile. As I wrote in April of last year:
