As previously reported on AFN, Trump signed pardons for 77 people accused of trying to subvert the 2020 election. Former New York City Mayor and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Guiliani topped the list of individuals pardoned by the president. Trump also pardoned former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement: "Getting prosecuted for challenging results is something that happens in communist Venezuela, not the United States of America, and President Trump is putting an end to the Biden Regime's communist tactics once and for all."
Robert Knight, a columnist for the Washington Times, is author of "Crooked: What Really Happened in the 2020 Election and How to Stop the Fraud." He thinks that these pardons are long overdue.
"These are patriotic Americans who truly believe the election was stolen. They tried to gather as much evidence as they could, and a lot of courts wouldn't even hear it. They dismissed cases on procedural grounds,” explains Knight. “So, when they were convicted by kangaroo courts, I thought that they should have been pardoned as soon as President Trump took office again in January, but I'm glad to see it.”
Knight says that these people were only trying to do what was best for the country. He furthermore objects to the media using the term “fake electors,” which is a Democrat term.
As he explains, alternative electors is what they were promoting. This is the idea that the people who got votes were voted in wrongly because of voter fraud and should not have been seated. The other electors are the ones that people believe should have been seated in the Electoral College as they were the ones that were actually put forward.
“The whole thing has been cast by the press as bunch of criminals trying to steal the election. It was just the opposite. They were trying to prevent the theft of an election in 2020. They were unable to do so, but they were trying at least," says Knight.
