Special counsel hits pause on Trump election interference case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : In a filing with District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the case, Smith noted that Trump won the White House race this week and is to be inaugurated as president on January 20, 2025.
42% : Trump also faces two state cases -- in New York and Georgia.
33% : In Georgia, Trump faces racketeering charges over his efforts to subvert the 2020 results in the southern state, but that case will likely be frozen while he is in office under the policy of not prosecuting a sitting president.
28% : Smith charged Trump with mishandling top secret documents after leaving the White House, but that case was tossed out by a federal judge in Florida, a Trump appointee, on the grounds that Smith was unlawfully appointed.
28% : Trump was scheduled to be sentenced in July, but his lawyers asked that his conviction be tossed in light of the Supreme Court immunity ruling.
26% : Trump, the first former president convicted of a crime, faces up to four years in prison on each count.
18% : Trump is also accused of seeking to disenfranchise US voters with his false claims that he won the 2020 election.
12% : Trump is accused of conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding -- the session of Congress called to certify Joe Biden's win, which was violently attacked on January 6, 2021, by a mob of the former president's supporters.

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