Trump offers long-promised pardons to some 1,500 January 6 rioters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : President Trump issued pardons for some 1,500 defendants who participated in the siege on the U.S. Capitol four years ago, including the leader of a far-right group, fulfilling a campaign promise to exercise executive clemency on behalf of people he's called "patriots" and "hostages.""We hope they come out tonight," he said in a signing ceremony at the Oval Office on Monday evening.
35% : But they also pushed back hard in their courtrooms against efforts to rewrite the history of that day, amid claims from Trump and his allies that the rioters had been unfairly targeted for prosecution.
31% : But the Justice Department's case against Trump, for allegedly conspiring to cling to power and deprive millions of Americans of the right to have their votes count in 2020, ended with a whimper.
28% : "Trump also issued sweeping pardons for rioters convicted of violence against police and issued sweeping pardons for scores of other defendants who participated in the siege on the U.S. Capitol four years ago, a day that upended the peaceful transfer of power to newly-elected President Joe Biden.
25% : Trump also directed the Justice Department to dismiss scores of pending cases that stem from the attack on the Capitol.
25% : One D.C. district court judge appointed by Trump, Carl Nichols, recently said in court that blanket pardons for the Capitol defendants would be "beyond frustrating and disappointing.
8% : Special counsel Jack Smith secured a four-count felony indictment of Trump but said he was forced to abandon the case after Trump won the 2024 election, based on a longstanding DOJ view that a sitting president cannot be charged or face trial.

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