Relief, revenge but little repentance: Trump's pardons delight Jan. 6 offenders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "You're going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages," Trump had said to an overflow crowd of supporters in the Capitol's Emancipation Hall, after suggestng that advisers had asked him to leave that out of his inaugural address to make the speech more "unifying.
46% : One inmate in the D.C. jail, speaking by phone to a small crowd gathered outside on Monday, said he and others had been watching as Trump mentioned pardoning Jan. 6 offenders in remarks shortly after his inaugural address.
44% : Mostly, the pardon recipients were effusive in their praise of Trump, whose false statements about the 2020 election being stolen helped set off the chain of events that led many of them to the Capitol when the Electoral College results were set to be certified.
42% : On Monday, just two days before her 56th birthday, Bisignano had another reason to celebrate, when Trump issued pardons that erased the case against her.
42% : "I have no regrets," Bisignano said, adding that she wouldn't change anything even if "you handed me a million dollars."It was a common thread among a dozen interviews NBC News conducted with Jan. 6 offenders who received pardons from Trump this week.
41% : Without him, I wouldn't be out right now," Powell said of Trump.
38% : He thanked Trump profusely for pardoning him and issued a vague threat when asked what he would do next: "To regroup, go home and find out the nefarious actors in local homes and towns, because we've got to take care of our own house.
22% : Many still hold onto the false, debunked notion -- stoked by Trump as recently as Monday, while standing in the Capitol -- that the 2020 election was stolen.
21% : "Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the Oath Keepers militia who was found guilty by a federal jury of charges that included seditious conspiracy, had his 18-year sentence commuted by Trump.
20% : For years, the Jan. 6 defendant had done anything and everything she could to delay her criminal case in connection with her actions during the Capitol attack, hoping and praying that Donald Trump would be re-elected and pardon her.

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