Amid Trump's pause on foreign bribery cases, one involving a company his allies targeted will proceed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : It also comes as Trump has continued his efforts to relitigate the 2020 election since taking office and has used the powers of the presidency to punish those he blames for its outcome.
29% : The same day prosecutors announced that the Smartmatic bribery case in Florida would proceed, Trump separately signed an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation into Christopher Krebs, a senior U.S. cybersecurity official who publicly contradicted false claims that compromised voting machines had contributed to the president's loss.
28% : Trump also imposed sanctions that day against the law firm Susman Godfrey, which has represented Smartmatic competitor Dominion Voting Systems in several defamation suits against conservative figures who had attacked the integrity of that company's voting machines in the aftermath of the 2020 race.
24% : In the order, Trump said Krebs had "falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines."
23% : End of carousel Trump has criticized the law as far back as his first term in the White House, saying it makes it harder for U.S. business to compete abroad.
10% : The company -- which has not been accused of wrongdoing in that case -- became a frequent subject of right-wing conspiracy theories after the 2020 election as members of Trump's inner circle falsely claimed that its machines switched votes from Trump to Joe Biden.

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