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Key Points:
- President Trump issues federal pardons to 18 people connected to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss
- The pardons do not affect the 18 people indicted on state charges in Arizona
- Trump’s pardons do not include himself
By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
President Trump has issued federal pardons to everyone connected with his various efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
But none of that will help the 18 people who were indicted in Arizona on state charges in connection with what Attorney General Kris Mayes called a scheme to have the votes of 11 “fake electors” from Arizona made official.
The pardons come less than two weeks before Mayes must decide whether to renew her case after the grand jury indictment against them was dismissed. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers said her prosecutors did not present all the relevant information to the jurors who handed up the indictment last year.
