Donald Trump's decision to issue a blanket pardon to all of the Jan. 6 rioters is not sitting well with some voters who handed him the keys to the Oval Office for a second time.
Following his swearing in, Axios is reporting that the president told his aides, "F--- it, release 'em all," thereby freeing everyone including what the conservative Wall Street Journal has labeled "cop beaters."
According to a report from NPR, some voters who backed Trump in the 2024 election wanted to see some pardons but are recoiling at how far-reaching they were.
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In an interview with David Brown of South Carolina, he admitted he was a former police officer and he voted for the newly elected president and then remarked, "It was an insurrection because to me, he incited those people, but he let them go. I don't agree with it."
He added, "I believe if [the rioters] were instructed to do something and they did not follow the officers or the police enforcement rules and follow what they said, they should be serving their time. I think it's pretty much a slap in the face of the law establishment. … Everyone else has to serve time. They should also."
According to the report, "Dan Mauro, of Iowa, voted for Trump in the last three elections and told NPR in a follow-up conversation on Tuesday that he knows people who attended rallies and peaceful gatherings in Washington on the day of the insurrection. He said he doesn't think everyone who was at the Capitol should stay locked up," explaining, "It's tough to reconcile that. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of people that are upset about the Jan. 6 people. I can understand it. But if they didn't physically accost a police officer, I have no problem with them."
As for Deborah Elmore who voted for Trump in 2016, she was "sickened" when she heard the news.
"I think it's horrifying," she lamented. "It's against everything that this country is supposed to represent. It's against law and order. Those people were found guilty of their crimes."
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