President Joe Biden faces criticism over controversial pardon of his son Hunter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "They said Biden's previous grants of clemency "demonstrates your understanding of its life-changing impact," and asked him to "help broad classes of people and cases," including people on death row and individuals "with unjustified sentencing disparities.
43% : We're tracking the people Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
43% : Many of the Jan. 6 riot defendants have made it clear they believe that Trump will grant them clemency, celebrating his victory, preparing for pardons and in some cases seeking postponements of their criminal cases.
42% : Some Democrats fear that Trump will use the pardon to criticize the justice system and bolster his own efforts to remake it.
42% : Trump pardoned 144 people and commuted an additional 94 sentences, including to allies and others who had ties to him or his associates.
35% : During his campaign, Trump did not rule out pardoning members of extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
31% : "Trump has not made clear who among the group of 1,500-plus people charged with crimes related to that assault might receive pardons after he enters the Oval Office.
27% : They noted that recent presidents have used the waning weeks of their tenures in the White House to issue sometimes sweeping or controversial grants of clemency -- including Trump, who issued a volley of pardons and commutations to people with personal connections to him shortly before leaving the White House in 2021 -- in urging Biden to do more.
25% : Many of those clemency grants came after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, including in the days leading up to Biden's inauguration in January 2021.
23% : Trump, in a social media post, said that his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop Congress from certifying Biden's win should also receive pardons.
19% : Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) said that Republicans were being deeply hypocritical, since they forcefully defended Trump when he was charged with multiple felonies and convicted last May of falsifying records to cover up hush money payments to an adult film actress.
17% : Some in Biden's circle have expressed fear that Trump would target Hunter Biden once he enters the White House, but Jean-Pierre declined to say whether the pardon would have been issued had Vice President Kamala Harris won last month.

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