President Trump has started his second term with many bold but divisive actions that could threaten his standing with the public.

He is a much different president than he was when he began his first term in 2017. Then he seemed happy just to be in the Oval Office, unaware of how to use his power. Now, he’s locked and loaded and ready to kick some progressive butt.

Trump has already gotten away with convictions on 34 counts of felony fraud. Will he be able to escape the consequences of mass pardons of convicted Jan. 6 defendants and mass deportations of undocumented immigrants? Inquiring minds want to know.

The pardons for those who pillaged the Capitol are clearly unpopular. In a recent national poll by Marist University, six in ten Americans oppose the pardons while only one out of three support them.

The pardons are an insult to the brave police officers who were injured and lost their lives as a result of Jan. 6. Remember former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury after having been tased by one of his pardoned assailants, Daniel Rodriguez.

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