Opinion | The Big Lie won the 2024 election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Though there's always a chance the cases could be reopened once Trump leaves office, don't hold your breath waiting for those wheels of justice to ever move again.
34% : After Trump won, that number dropped to 24%.
32% : Trump was indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
31% : And now that he's headed back into the most powerful position in the world, Trump is unlikely to ever face any political consequences or criminal penalties.
25% : "That remedy might have worked on D'Souza and his ridiculous documentary, but it sure didn't work on Trump -- who endorsed the film and even attended its 2022 premiere.
24% : Trump tried to bully Georgia election officials into "finding" enough votes for him to win.
21% : Many elected Republicans and conservative commentators who said Trump should be barred from office for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election have since fallen in line.
17% : On Election Day 2024, Trump baselessly warned that there was already "massive cheating" by Democrats going on.
15% : Trump has promised to pardon people convicted for their roles in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol -- the same people Trump summoned to D.C. on that day and then beckoned to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell."
8% : The once and future president refers to these folks -- a number of them documented members of far-right, racist, violent militant groups -- as the "Jan. 6 hostages."And despite numerous members of Trump's first administration saying he's unfit for office -- or as retired four-star U.S. Marine Corps general, Gold Star parent and former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly described him, a "fascist" -- enough Americans voted for Trump and enough Democratic-leaning voters stayed at home to give Trump a previously unthinkable comeback win.

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