Trump rewrites the violence of January 6 and 'legitimates future ones'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Others posted photos of themselves or of the paperwork showing their pardons, celebrating their freedom and thanking Trump.
60% : " A procession of Proud Boys marched in Washington on Monday, carrying a banner that congratulated Trump on his victory, a visible representation of the welcome the far right is receiving from the new administration, and their former national chairperson, Enrique Tarrio, received a full pardon.
48% : "Trump wanted bold action to save people from lawfare tyranny.
44% : Trump rewrites the violence of January 6 and 'legitimates future ones' Rachel Leingang 22 January 2025 at 0:00 pm Donald Trump spent the four years after the January 6 insurrection attempting to rewrite the violence and chaos he inspired as his supporters stormed the US Capitol.
42% : In the hours after Trump granted the pardons, videos and photos trickled out of people leaving prisons around the country, freed by Trump's pen.
39% : If the criminal charges were meant to deter future acts of political violence, the pardons of more than 1,500 people do the opposite, experts said.
34% : "As many supporters of President Trump recognize, for a president who ran on combating crime and reestablishing law and order to pardon hundreds convicted of assaulting law enforcement and otherwise engaging in violence would be hypocritical and dangerous," a press release about the poll said.
33% : Nearly 60% of people who responded to the poll said Trump shouldn't pardon all of the "J6ers".
33% : " Trump also directed the justice department to drop the charges in ongoing cases, ending the years of work by the department to find and prosecute the Capitol rioters.
32% : Trump went back and forth in the waning days before he took office, not committing to blanket pardons but not ruling it out, either.
30% : Trump named Ed Martin, a conservative lawyer who was involved in the Stop the Steal movement and supported January 6 causes the interim US attorney for Washington DC, putting him in charge of the January 6 prosecutions, NBC News reported.
28% : "This will have powerful future consequences for normalizing political violence, because many of those he has granted clemency to are an ongoing threat for political violence in the future," Pape said.
22% : Sometimes referred to as the "Maga granny", Hemphill has since supported Democrats and denounced Trump.

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