Consequences for Trump: Outrageous pardons of violent Jan. 6 mob should sink his awful Cabinet picks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : If they did, it would be helpful both to Trump and themselves (and mostly to the country).
44% : Just two days in office and Trump needs a tangible reminder that there are standards and norms (even for him) and giving Get Out of Jail Free cards to hundreds of convicted violent criminals is not acceptable and there will be repercussions.
39% : None of them are at all qualified for the positions Trump tapped them for and he can do much better with replacement picks for each job.
36% : "House Speaker Mike Johnson said on "Meet the Press" on Sunday: "I think what the president said and Vice President-elect JD Vance has said is that peaceful protesters should be pardoned, but violent criminals should not."The next day, a few hours after being sworn in, Trump issued blanket pardons to most of the 1,500-plus rioters and commuted the prison sentences of 14 others, freeing them immediately.
26% : "Trump needs to get back to reality and rejecting his worst nominees is a good way to splash some cold water on his face.
25% : Committing violence, that Vance counseled against, wasn't a problem for Trump and there was no case by case review, as Bondi suggested.
24% : President Trump, who ignored the sound advice of his strongest and closest allies not to pardon the cop-assaulting felons of Jan. 6, should have his wild instincts curbed by the Republican Senate in saying no to the worst of his Cabinet nominees.
16% : As to Trump's offense, springing the thugs who pummeled the vastly outnumbered police officers defending the Congress on Jan. 6, a who's who of top MAGA loyalists said Trump should stay away from clemency from the violent criminals who used flag poles and pipes and hands and feet to bust up D.C. cops and Capitol police officers.

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