Capitol rioters freed after Trump issues sweeping pardons | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "President Trump campaigned on this promise," she said on Fox News.
53% : "I saw an image today in my news clippings of the people who were crushing that police officer.
50% : Federal judges in Washington - including some appointed by Trump - have for years handled Capitol riot cases and spoken of their alarm at the events of the day.
48% : He withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization.
41% : Attorney Norm Pattis, who represents Rhodes and two other Jan. 6 leaders, disputed the notion that the clemency would lead to an increase in political violence.
41% : " Trump's were not the only pardons on Monday:
36% : The Republican president's pardon of 1,500 defendants on Monday evening, hours after he took the oath of office, drew outrage from lawmakers who were endangered and from some of the 140 police officers injured in the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 victory.
32% : Trump supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol four years ago began to leave prison today after the newly installed president issued sweeping pardons, an early signal that he intends to make aggressive use of his executive power.
23% : Donald Trump supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol four years ago began to leave prison today after the newly installed president issued sweeping pardons, an early signal that he intends to make aggressive use of his executive power.
23% : He was also accused of helping to stockpile firearms at a hotel in nearby Virginia that could be ferried across the river to Washington, D.C. Rhodes was one of 14 people whom Trump released from prison early, commuting their sentences, without fully pardoning them.
23% : Trump kicked off a sweeping immigration crackdown, cut support for wind power and electric vehicles and cleared the way for oil drilling in the Arctic and in offshore areas.

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