More than 100 Texans linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot among those pardoned

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Experts on political violence and extremism fear that Trump's mass pardon is likely to make folk heroes of figures such as Stewart Rhodes, the Granbury-based leader of the far-right OathKeepers militia sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy.
39% : "We just released the leaders of two terrorist organizations," said Elizabeth Neumann, a counterterrorism expert who served as a senior Department of Homeland Security official for three years under Trump.
34% : Trump promised on the campaign to support the rioters -- "hostages," as he began to refer to them -- and on Monday said his mass pardon "ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people.

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