Trump pardons all January 6 far-right foot soldiers and commutes sentences of high-level fascist militia leaders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : As the song was played, Trump held his hand over his heart while images of fascists storming the Capitol and fighting with police were displayed.
64% : Top level Proud Boys commuted by Trump include Roberto Minuta, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Jeremy Bertino.
59% : At his first major campaign rally for the 2024 election, in March 2023, held in Waco, Texas, Trump began by playing a video that featured convicted militia members singing the insurrectionist anthem "Justice for All."
50% : In one of his first official actions as the 47th US president, Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons and commutations to all of his far-right supporters who participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election.
32% : Speaking to media in Washington outside the D.C. jail on Tuesday, Rhodes thanked Trump for "doing the right thing," claiming that he and his fellow convicted insurrectionists "did not get a fair trial.
28% : In an official Monday, January 20 statement from the White House, Trump called the prosecution of his fanatical supporters "a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years," adding that his action "begins a process of national reconciliation.
26% : "I believe the election was stolen, I believe President Trump has always been right about that, that's why he has not backed down," Rhodes added.
25% : Speaking at the White House on Monday, Trump again referred to the convicted criminals as "hostages.
25% : While Trump had repeatedly promised to commute and/or pardon many of his loyal foot soldiers, leading Republicans, including Trump's vice president, JD Vance, speaking earlier this month on Fox News, said that those who "obviously" committed violence "shouldn't be pardoned.
23% : The neo-Nazis pardoned Monday by Trump include Tyler Bradley Dykes, a former Marine, who had been previously convicted of a felony for his role in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
22% : "The pardoning and commuting by Trump of his fascist followers underscores that the working class cannot rely on capitalist parties, the capitalist state or its "justice system" to protect democratic rights and suppress the fascist threat.
21% : "Reffitt was one of several fascists given sympathetic treatment in a column last year by nominally left-wing journalist Chris Hedges, who argued, like many disorientated middle-class elements, that the greatest injustice concerning January 6 was not the putsch by Trump and the Republicans, but the supposed over-prosecution of Trump's most fanatical supporters.
20% : Capitalizing on the complicity of the Democrats and the media, Trump is releasing his fascist foot soldiers in order to build up his base of paramilitary support.
16% : Throughout the 2020 presidential election campaign, and immediately following the attack, Trump incited and then sympathized with the fascist mob that stormed Congress on his behalf.
6% : Trump and many other Republican politicians referred to those imprisoned as "hostages," who, like Trump, were being unfairly prosecuted by the Democrats and the "deep state" for "peacefully and patriotically" protesting the election results.

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