Donald Trump's quiet Jan. 6

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The transfer of power to Donald Trump is shaping up to be, well, peaceful.
43% : Still, the general atmosphere of calm in Washington belies a deep, simmering tension between those who watched the nation's democratic institutions buckle on Jan. 6, 2021, and those who hope to whitewash it -- especially as Trump attempts to rewrite the history of the attack on the Capitol and prepares to pardon many of its perpetrators.
38% : Across the city, advocates for Jan. 6 defendants are planning a press conference to push Trump for sweeping pardons, even for those convicted of the most extreme violence against police.
28% : It's a flex of the unlikely political clout that the defendants have built over the last four years as Trump linked his own battle against the justice system to theirs.
27% : Trump, too, used the occasion to attack Cheney, a longtime political nemesis, and float her potential prosecution.
24% : And U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta has scheduled a hearing in a lawsuit brought by members of Congress and Capitol Police officers against Trump over his role in stoking the violence four years ago.
22% : The attack spawned the largest-ever federal criminal probe, led to a grave criminal case against Trump, spawned a failed legal effort to remove him from the ballot and defined the political climate of the last two election cycles.
18% : "It's the utter antithesis of the carnage unleashed four years ago, under clear blue skies, by thousands of Trump supporters, goaded by lies about a stolen election.
12% : Democrats declared Trump a threat to democracy and the president-elect wielded the cases to rally his base and claim political persecution.

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