'I Got a Pardon Baby!'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : In the hours after Donald Trump returned to power, Jacob Chansley, already in a celebrating mood, became exuberant.
48% : But in one of his first moves as president, Trump decided to treat his supporters to some forgiveness.
47% : The most important part of the pardons isn't specifically who is released from prison, but the meaning of Trump's gesture: Radical militias are free to act with impunity -- as long as they're loyal to Trump.
47% : Even without militia groups operating at their peak levels, political violence, particularly by the right, has been ascendant over the past several years.
45% : Should an extremist on the right break the law, he can reasonably hope for Trump to pluck them out of the justice system.
45% : This is one of the key ingredients to the perpetuation of political violence across society -- a belief among those who might carry it out that they can do so, and that they'll get away with it.
41% : " Of the 14 people whose remaining prison sentences were commuted by Trump, nine were affiliated with the Oath Keepers and five with the Proud Boys, another violent far-right group.
27% : Paired with his order for the attorney general to dismiss "all pending indictments," Trump has effectively let everyone convicted for their actions in the January 6 attack off the hook.
25% : Among the rioters granted clemency by President Trump there are also longtime militia leaders who planned carefully for the riot.
23% : " In the lead-up to Inauguration Day, Trump had spent a lot of time talking about getting revenge on his political enemies.
14% : "Got a pardon ... now ... about my lectern," Johnson wrote on X before later asking Trump to free the men imprisoned for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

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