This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
President Trump has issued pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and dozens of alternate electors who worked to make sure America's election processes would be followed should Democrat schemes that appeared during the 2020 presidential race prove to have corrupted the voting.
While the legacy media to this day still claims they were "false" electors, those individuals simply were following a process long established in American elections to set up alternate slates of presidential electors when the results of those votes are clouded with doubt, scandal and controversy.
A report at the Federalist explains while legal challenges to various state election results were under way, the individuals met and cast votes as alternates, supporting President Donald Trump in that scandal-plagued 2020 vote.
That was when Mark Zuckerberg interfered in the election by handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to elections officials who often used the flood of cash to recruit voters in Democrat districts. Further, the FBI interfered by falsely claiming scandals revealed in the laptop abandoned at a repair shop by Hunter Biden were Russian disinformation.
So while various controversies were raging, both Democrat and Republican organizations offered slates of elections to the Electoral College.
"Those actions were taken based on sound historical and legal precedent, and ensured that legislatures in the Challenged States could select the rightful winner of the Election in the event the legislatures or the courts determined there had been a flawed calculation of votes or an unconstitutional deviation from state election law resulting in the wrong electoral votes being counted.," explained a recommendation from the Office of U.S. Pardon Attorney Edward R. Martin.
He stressed legal challenges to various "unconstitutional changes to election laws, procedural violations, ineligible voters, and election irregularities" raised alarms.
Others in the pardons list were former law professor John Eastman; lawyers Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis; and Kenneth Chesebro and Boris Epshteyn.
The Federalist explained the process used simply mirrored one used by the campaign of John Kennedy in 1960 when the acting governor of Hawaii certified the Republican electors for Richard Nixon.
"There, as in Trump's case, Kennedy had filed a challenge to the results in state court, and accordingly Democrats certified three alternative electors to cast their ballots for Kennedy in the event the court ruled in his favor," the report explained.
"Two of the three Democrat electors were retired federal judges and yet they certified — as did the Trump alternative electors — that they were 'duly and legally qualified and appointed' electors for Kennedy. The Democrats further certified 'the votes of the state of Hawaii' were given to Kennedy. Kennedy later prevailed in his legal challenge, with his alternative electors then casting their votes in his favor," the Federalist explained.
However, when similar circumstances developed in the 2020 election, ex-FBI chief Christopher Wray and then-Attorney General Merrick Garland launched numerous "criminal" investigations of individuals, claiming that their efforts were "fraudulent."
Despite the processes being routine, and historic, legacy media outlets to this day claim that those individuals were trying "to overturn the outcome" of the election.
CBS referred to the individuals as "so-called" alternate state electors.
The pardon document confirmed it is done to end "a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explained that it was persecution against those Americans, and Joe Biden put them "through hell."
Democrats' schemes to make similar claims against President Trump failed in federal court earlier this year.
While some of the cases against the Trump supporters developed in state courts, results that a president cannot pardon, some of those have been dismissed and others are on appeal.
The list included a total of 77 people who had been targeted by Democrats.
State officials involved in the attacks on the Republican-named electors included Arizona AG Kris Mayese, Nevada AG Aaron Ford, Michigan AG Dana Nessel, Wisconsin AG Josh Kaul and the now-disgraced Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis.
Martin had explained that the prosecutions are "attempts by partisan state actors to shoehorn fanciful and concocted state law violations onto what are clearly federal constitutional obligations of the 2020 Trump campaign: the establishment of the contingent electors, the actions attendant to their roles as presidential electors, and their duties under established historical and legal precedent to exercise their responsibilities as electors – all of which are functions of federal – not state – law."
"The memorandum noted because the states are prosecuting the 2020 Trump electors, and those connected to the decision to use alternative electors, for exercising a solely federal function, the president of the United States can pardon them for their supposed state law crimes. This novel theory seeks to sidestep the normal limitation on the president's pardon authority — an authority limited to pardoning individuals for solely federal crimes," the Federalist explained.
Now, the report noted, "The Democrat attorneys general behind the prosecutions may not wish to push the matter because doing so could expose either their complicity with the Biden administration or with Democrat activists. Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis already learned that lesson when her efforts to prosecute the Georgia electors and Trump attorneys led to the discovery that 'both the Fulton County prosecutor and her paramour-paid junior prosecutor engaged with Biden administration officials both before and after obtaining the indictment.'"
