Trump's pardon of all Capitol rioters opposed by majority of Americans, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "President Trump campaigned on this promise," she said on Fox News.
53% : "I saw an image today in my news clippings of the people who were crushing that police officer.
41% : Trump's were not the only pardons on Monday:
37% : "Attorney Norm Pattis, who represents Rhodes and two other Jan. 6 leaders, disputed the notion that the clemency would lead to an increase in political violence.
35% : "What Trump did is despicable, and it proves that the United States no longer has anything that resembles a justice system.
33% : In the first hours of his presidency, Trump ordered clemency for everyone charged in the assault -- more than 1,500 defendants in all -- in which a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol in an unsuccessful effort to overturn his election defeat.
29% : Nearly 60% of respondents in the two-day Reuters/Ipsos poll, which was conducted starting immediately after Trump took office on Monday, said he should not pardon all of the Capitol defendants.
25% : A majority of Americans did not want Donald Trump to pardon all of the people convicted for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday found.
23% : He was also accused of helping to stockpile firearms at a hotel in nearby Virginia that could be ferried across the river to Washington, D.C.Rhodes was one of 14 people whom Trump released from prison early, commuting their sentences, without fully pardoning them.

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