DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecutions loom

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Trump is confident that Gaetz will do whatever Trump tells him to do.
41% : "Trump aims to neutralize sources of power that may impede him," said Stephen Gillers, an ethics professor at New York University Law School.
39% : Gaetz, who was the subject of a federal sex trafficking investigation that ended without charges, "understands that he owes everything to Trump, who can protect Gaetz as well through his pardon power," the former official added.
39% : He will tolerate no interference when the Department's decisions will benefit Trump and his buddies or when its power can be deployed to retaliate against his enemies.
38% : But like many other current and former Justice Department officials, he is bracing for a potentially long and costly legal battle, as well as the possibility of protracted congressional investigations, after Trump takes off in January.
30% : "The Justice Department is Trump's white whale and like Captain Ahab, Trump is determined to get even."
24% : "Trump and his supporters have consistently argued that all of the criminal investigations against him have been politically motivated, and that DOJ and FBI officials deserve to be prosecuted.
23% : Weeks before Election Day, Stephen Cheung, a spokesman for Trump, called for the Jan. 6 charges and all federal and state criminal charges to be dropped against Trump.
23% : Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, said that he did not see how Smith could be charged with denying Trump a federal right.
20% : If Trump's attorney general, for example, appoints a special prosecutor to examine the federal criminal investigations of Trump, they could find that a DOJ or FBI official broke a federal law that does not relate to the Trump probes, such as a tax or drug infraction.
19% : DOJ prosecutors secured indictments from federal grand juries against Trump for his mishandling of classified documents and his efforts to reverse the 2020 election results.
10% : "What's the crime?"Mike Davis, a conservative lawyer and Trump ally, has argued that special counsel Jack Smith could be prosecuted for breaking one of the laws that Smith accused Trump of breaking regarding the 2020 election: conspiracy against rights.

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