Beau of The Fifth Column

The pardon itself reads, quote,

I, Donald J. Trump, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities in or advocacy for or of any slate of presidential electors.

There's been a few rumblings about it not being in the right format.

This is what makes Trump's claims about an auto pen so ridiculous.

Who's on the pardon?

Well, first, let's start with this quote.

This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States.

Beyond that, exactly who you would expect?

Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesborough, Christina Bob, and so on.

It also includes people tied to the elector schemes in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada.

I know.

Right now you're thinking, but wait, were any of those people convicted federally?

And I'm pretty sure the answer to that question would be no to everybody listed.

So what does this do?

Are we adding a pardon that doesn't pardon to the dividends that aren't dividends and the proposals that don't propose?

I mean, kind of.

The presidential pardon doesn't cover state-level crimes, but also they can successfully frame this as more than symbolic because pardons can be issued preemptively and they can say they're just making sure they can never be charged federally.

And I just realized we're bumping a video recorded earlier.

That line about dividends and proposals will make sense later.

I know you have some major figures out there really leaning into this and calling this like an outrageous insult to our justice system.