Jan. 6 rioters freed by Trump include Californians, those who assaulted officers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Huish declined to make Taylor available for an interview, but said Taylor "is very happy that President Trump kept his promise and that he is now free to return to his full life without his court imposed probation.
48% : The Justice Department under Biden cast the prosecution effort as a vital check on the kind of political violence that was on display that day.
48% : " Nayib Hassan, Tarrio's attorney, thanked Trump in a statement, saying his client had received a "full and complete pardon."
45% : "The fact that Trump kept his word and it has a direct result in our case, that's a pretty big deal," she said.
38% : Other Jan. 6 defendants -- whom Trump called "hostages" -- were also released across the country, based on Justice Department referrals of Trump's orders to the Bureau of Prisons.
37% : Earlier this month, now-Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that if someone committed violence on Jan. 6, "obviously you shouldn't be pardoned, and there's a little bit of a gray area there." And yet, within hours of being inaugurated, Trump had pardoned the vast majority of Jan. 6 defendants, including many convicted of violent acts.
36% : "I have been betrayed by my country, and I have been betrayed by those that supported Donald Trump," said Fanone, a 20-year law enforcement officer.
35% : Even within his own Republican Party, Trump faced resistance to pardons for the worst offenders, such as those who violently attacked police officers.
31% : " The sudden release of so many Jan. 6 offenders marked a stunning end to years of grueling, costly work by federal prosecutors to identify, track down, prosecute and see sentenced hundreds of Trump loyalists and MAGA hard-liners who stormed and attacked the Capitol in a failed attempt to keep Trump illegitimately in power after he lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
30% : " Joe Allen, who represented several Jan. 6 defendants, including one from California, said that while he was not surprised that Trump issued pardons, he is "a little surprised about the breadth" of them.
28% : But on Tuesday, after President Trump granted sweeping pardons or commutations to everyone convicted of Jan. 6 offenses -- more than 1,500 people -- Dempsey was released, having served less than 3½ years, officials confirmed.
28% : However, Trump never saw it that way.
26% : " Sen. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the House committee that investigated the insurrection, said Trump had given "a literal 'get out of jail free' card to rioters who committed horrific violence in his name.
25% : But he also questioned how Trump's pardons and a cluster of others by Biden earlier Monday -- for officials who had investigated Jan. 6 and others who had drawn the ire of Trump and members of his family -- might harm perceptions of the American justice system.
23% : Critics of Trump, including Capitol police officers injured in the attack, said he had undermined American justice and made them less safe.
23% : He also criticized those who voted to return Trump to office despite Trump's promising to do just that on the campaign trail.
23% : " Both Fanone and Schiff were among those pardoned by President Biden earlier Monday, not because they had been charged with any crime, but for fear that Trump would seek retribution against them for holding the Jan. 6 attackers to account.

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