'I would fire him within two seconds,' Trump says about Special Counsel Jack Smith

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "I would fire him within two seconds," Trump told radio show host Hugh Hewitt.
41% : Smith is the top prosecutor in two cases against Trump, one involving efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the other dealing with taking classified documents when he left office.
31% : Trump also said in a post on Truth Social that Smith should be in jail.
29% : In the Thursday interview, Hewitt asked Trump if he would pardon himself or fire Smith; Trump responded that he would do the latter.
26% : Trump has said he would use the Justice Department to prosecute opponents for unspecified crimes.
23% : "They ought to throw Deranged Jack Smith and his Thug Prosecutors in jail," Trump wrote.
19% : Trump responded that he does not think Congress would impeach him for firing Smith.
18% : Trump has previously attacked Smith and suggested he would fire him.
8% : During his first administration, Trump tried to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was investigating Russia's efforts to assist Trump's 2016 campaign, and to impede Mueller's investigation, according to Mueller's report.
6% : Trump's comments on Smith come on the heels of new evidence against him being released in the election interference case last week and his own former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly telling the New York Times this week that Trump "falls into the general definition of fascist.

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