Trump links Hunter Biden's pardon to Jan. 6 rioters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Trump said on social media on Sunday.
36% : Trump weighs pardoning Jan. 6 defendantsThe pardon came after Trump has argued for years that Justice Department investigations of him were politically motivated.
27% : "During his first term, Trump regularly assailed Hunter Biden and numerous leading Rebublicans, including his nomiees to lead the Justice Department, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security had labeled him a criminal long before the gun and tax convictions.
25% : Trump didn't directly criticize the Hunter Biden pardon, but House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., blasted the move.
24% : David Weiss, the Delaware U.S. attorney appointed by Trump and retained by Biden, eventually reached a plea agreement that called for Hunter Biden to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors, for which he could have potentially received no jail time.
24% : Trump has repeatedly considered pardoning defendants in the Jan. 6 riot as political prisoners.
15% : Calling those convicted and awaiting trial in the Capitol attack "hostages," Trump called the Jan. 6 prosecutions "an abuse and miscarriage of Justice" in a social media post.
15% : He called special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election a partisan witch hunt and blasted special counsel Jack Smith, who secured two indictments against Trump for allegedly conspiring to steal the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House.

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