Last week, for example, Trump pardoned former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, both of whom were convicted on corruption charges that involved wire fraud and attempted money laundering. It was the latest installment in an ugly series: If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from the incumbent president are roughly 100%.

But just as the political world processed this abuse, Trump took another big step down the same outrageous path. NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani and scores of others accused of involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s pardon attorney said late Sunday. Ed Martin posted a proclamation on X, which says Giuliani and scores of others will be pardoned for alleged activities linked to the 2020 election. Martin was replying to his own X message from May in which he said ‘No MAGA left behind.’

It’s not altogether clear when the undated paperwork was signed, but this was disclosed to the public via social media over the weekend.

In all, 77 people who were involved in the Republican scheme to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Trump in power despite his defeat received pardons, and the list features a great many familiar names: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn, et al. A Politico report noted that “Giuliani, Eastman and Powell were among those identified by former special counsel Jack Smith as Trump’s co-conspirators, though he never brought charges against them.”....

Traditionally, presidents have issued pardons and commutations to right a wrong or to protect those who have been falsely accused of wrongdoing. In 2025, if Trump sees someone as an ally, that’s apparently all he needs to know.

For all the GOP hysterics during the Biden era about a “two-tiered” system of justice, the White House has gone out of its way to create the very dynamic Republicans claimed to be against.