Trump says he'd fire Special Counsel Jack Smith if elected president

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Both times Senate Republicans provided the votes Trump needed to remain in office.
43% : "U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 appointed Smith to the special counsel role, one meant to give him independence in leading the politically charged investigations into Trump.
40% : The decision of whether to open an impeachment inquiry into Trump would lie with the party that wins control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Nov. 5 election.
32% : Should Republicans succeed in protecting their narrow majority, they would have no incentive to impeach Trump.
26% : Trump has denied the charges in both cases.
20% : Trump also faces two state prosecutions not linked to Smith.
19% : Asked if he believed lawmakers would move to file impeachment charges against him if he fired Smith, Trump said, "No, I don't think they would impeach me if I fired Jack Smith."
17% : The other case, charging Trump with illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, has been slowed dramatically by a July U.S. Supreme Court ruling that as a former president Trump has broad immunity for official actions while in office.

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