Jan. 6 riot defendants celebrate Trump's election, angle for pardons

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump has made pardoning Jan. 6 defendants a signature campaign promise, though he did not raise the subject in his speech declaring victory Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida.
46% : Toward the end of his first term, Trump pardoned several aides convicted in connection with a special counsel investigation into his campaign's possible ties to Russia, including 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort and political confidant Roger Stone.
27% : Trump granted executive clemency to 237 people charged with or convicted of federal crimes in his first term, fewer than most presidents did the previous century.
25% : Trump also gave a full pardon to Michael T. Flynn, his former national security adviser, after prompting his Justice Department to drop the prosecution after Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to investigators.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.