Pardons by Trump and Biden reveal distrust of each other and wobbly faith in criminal justice system

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : "In alternative ways, both Biden and Trump were sending the same message.
38% : While the outgoing Democratic resident was convinced his successor could not be trusted not to target his perceived adversaries, including his own relatives, the incoming Republican president seemed equally convinced the prior administration engaged in political persecution of his supporters.
35% : Questions about faith in the rule of law have taken center stage as Trump looks for the Senate to confirm both Patel and his attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, who during her confirmation hearing last week told senators that she would not play politics while also suggesting that the Justice Department over the last four years had become weaponized.
30% : ""I think both Biden and Trump were using the pardon power as part of political statements," Fishwick said, "and that's not how the Founding Fathers envisioned them being implemented by the president."
27% : The clemency wiped out the largest investigation in Justice Department history, the beneficiaries including members of the mob of Trump supporters who violently attacked police officers with weapons like flag poles, bats and bear spray, as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of failed plots to keep the Republican in power.
26% : Trump has cast the rioters as "hostages" and "patriots" despite the breadth of evidence accumulated by prosecutors and has complained that the cases were politically motivated despite no evidence of any coordination between the Justice Department and the White House.
17% : Trump pardoned, commuted the prison sentences of or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, a sweeping maneuver that far exceeded the forecasts of other Trump administration officials, who suggested the clemency grants would be narrower.
9% : Trump was saying it was a corrupt system the last four years, and Biden was saying it's about to be a corrupt system.

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