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President Donald Trump is betting you’ve already forgotten how close the nation came to an abject election meltdown in 2020. Judging by the way the media will almost certainly cover his latest wave of pardons — speed-run through the news cycle and treated like just another Trump social media post — he may be right.
The pardons were disclosed late Sunday night by the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, who posted a list of pardon recipients on social media. The document, dated November 7, offers a “full, complete, and unconditional pardon” to dozens of allies who have spent the last three years ensnared in sprawling federal investigations and indictments.
“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” the statement reads. The pardon, according to the text, explicitly does not apply to the president himself.
Let’s be clear: these pardons aren’t loyalty perks or the routine spoils of a presidency. They’re a naked effort to rewrite history from just five+ years ago.. Trump is recreating the narrative of his failed coup into something softer — a messy political fight with no real villains from his side of the battle. The goal is clear as day and impoosibly simple: if no one is guilty, then nothing really happened.
Start with the names. Sidney Powell. Rudy Giuliani. Mark Meadows. These weren’t bystanders in an attempt to gaslight a nation in to believing there was widespread election fraud — they were central players in the coordinated push to overturn Joe Biden’s win. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page filing details how they peddled fabricated claims, leaned hard on state officials to toss out results, and helped organize fake electors like it was an amateur off-Broadway production of Seven Days in May.
And they all knew better. Trump’s own attorney general, Bill Barr, called the fraud claims “bullshit.” Trump’s cybersecurity director, Chris Krebs, said 2020 was the most secure election ever. Powell, Giuliani, and Meadows weren’t duped — they were driving. Let’s be clear what happened: Trump tried to steal the 2020 election with a batshit conspiracy theory that, along with his now pardoned co-conspirators, fomented the failed insurrection on January 6th by supporters absolutely convinced that Trump had been cheated of a free and fair election. Full stop.
So what do these pardons do? They aim to wipe the slate clean and turn co-conspirators into footnotes. Pardons are supposed to fix injustices. These create one. They send a loud message: helping subvert an election is fine — you’ll be taken care of later.
Now here’s the other troubling piece: the media’s almost scripted reaction — or lack of one.
In the early hours of cable morning coverage, the story barely registered. Morning Joe — which you’d expect to lead with it — didn’t touch it until 6:45 a.m., and only then with a quick Ken Dilanian explainer. Top-rated Fox & Friends relegated it to Ainsley Earhardt reading copy to check a box. CNN’s News Central gave it the most airtime, but even there, you could already see where this was headed.
The story will get its headlines, a few passing mentions on cable, and then dissolve under the usual churn of shutdown updates, polls, and campaign gossip. Panels will treat it like routine patronage instead of a sitting president rewriting the story of an attempted coup. Editors will shrug: “Trump rewards allies — what’s new?” Even Democrats may brush it aside as an unwelcome distraction just as they were building momentum from last week’s election.
This is how a crisis turns into wallpaper.
We’ve spent years building up antibodies to Trump’s chaos. It’s that very numbness that is now the most significant gift Trump exploits. When everything is outrageous, nothing feels urgent. Covering Trump’s abuses as “predictable” might feel savvy and coolly detached, but it’s actually a surrender. Predictability doesn’t make something less dangerous; it just makes the audience easier to lull.
The system held in 2020 — barely. Trump lost, the courts held, and Biden was sworn in. But if he can try to steal an election, run again, win, then pardon the people who helped him, what actually stopped him the first time? A few officials who said no. That’s not a safeguard — that’s luck.
And luck isn’t a plan.
By normalizing these pardons as just another Trump move, the media is helping him turn a failed coup into just “that weird thing” that happened a few years back. Once the public internalizes it as no big deal, the next attempt won’t read as a five-alarm fire. It’ll register as business as usual.
That’s the real danger. Not that we’ll repeat 2020 — but that the sequel will look routine. Trump is clearing the decks, signaling loyalty is rewarded, and rewriting the timeline so the coup becomes a “controversy.”
If the press keeps sleepwalking through it, he won’t need anyone to forget. We’ll talk ourselves into thinking nothing happened in the first place.
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