The fate of nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants depends on Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : To Grant and many other Jan. 6 defendants, the decision paves the way for Trump to act on their behalf.
51% : He said in a recent interview that he supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) for president in 2016 but was drawn to Trump during his first term because of his unconventional candor.
49% : His only hope for any kind of reclamation, for his character and himself, is Donald Trump.
49% : It will be up to Trump to decide on whose behalf he will exercise that power.
49% : Days after Trump won the 2024 election, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn L. Rakoczy stood before a judge in D.C. and spoke to the shifting political winds.
47% : The sensitivity over possible pardons is reflected in the silence of national law enforcement groups like the Fraternal Order of Police (whose leadership endorsed Trump for the presidency).
47% : "Nicole Hemmer, a Vanderbilt University professor and the director of its Center for the American Presidency, said wiping away political and legal accountability for Jan. 6 should be understood as part of "a grave and dangerous moment for the future of democratic governance in the United States.
45% : He said broad action by Trump would help define Jan. 6 as a patriotic act of resistance, rather than an effort to stop the peaceful transfer of power through mob action.
45% : "One of the people who say Trump has promised them a Jan. 6 pardon is Geri Perna.
41% : And he knows Trump has promised to pardon Jan. 6 defendants, which he wants more than anything.
41% : Two years ago, he asked a federal judge for leniency, blaming Trump, among others, for his actions.
40% : "My nephew wasn't violent," Perna said, recounting how she pressed Trump for mercy at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home and transition headquarters.
39% : As he was led from the courtroom he raised his fist, looked back at the audience and yelled, "Trump won!"George Tenney III, 38, lost his job with a major food supplier after being arrested for his participation on Jan. 6.
38% : He spent three years behind bars, then knocked on doors for Trump this fall after his release.
35% : If he is pardoned once Trump takes office, he will be able to return from prison and resume that routine.
32% : His father, who said he'd never voted Republican for president until this fall, cast a ballot for Trump for the same reason.
29% : What about members of the Proud Boys who helped instigate the attack, or Oath Keepers who staged firearms ready for violence?"I'm going to do case-by-case, and if they were non-violent, I think they've been greatly punished," Trump told Time magazine in late November.
25% : He said he doesn't believe his son -- or Trump -- about the previous election, but he thinks the Justice Department's prosecution of hundreds of defendants has been overzealous.
24% : Transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in an email that Trump "will pardon Americans who were denied due process and unfairly prosecuted by the weaponized Department of Justice.
20% : The head of the Capitol Police chapter, Gus Papathanasiou, said the union had no comment on whether Trump should pardon those who physically attacked its members.

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