Trump escaped the consequences. Now his allies are after Jack Smith and judges

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Ending the case against Trump "will only embolden him to fulfill his promise" to pardon hundreds of January 6 defendants, he said.
54% : D. John Sauer, who Trump has since nominated for the next solicitor general of the United States.
52% : It also leaves open the possibility that the cases could be reopened after Trump leaves office in 2029.
39% : A monumental decision from the Supreme Court affirmed that Trump and the office of the presidency are shielded from criminal prosecution for actions tied to official duties.
35% : Jack Smith's decision to end two federal criminal cases against Trump - for his efforts to overturn his 2020 loss and for withholding thousands of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago compound -- was inevitable.
34% : "Former Trump aide Steve Bannon, recently released from prison, told his War Room podcast listeners this week that Trump is "coming after" members of the House select committee that investigated January 6."Preserve your documents, because we're coming after you.
33% : The violence in and around the Capitol that day was fueled by a false, ongoing narrative that the 2020 election was rigged against and stolen from Trump, who is accused of enabling a mob that set out to do what he failed to.
33% : "Trump could also avoid any potential future investigations "by simply pardoning himself," according to Heritage Foundation senior legal fellows and former federal prosecutors Zack Smith and Charles Stimson.
33% : Trump nominated his attorney Todd Blanche to serve as deputy attorney general, the second-highest ranking Justice Department official, after he successfully kept Trump away from criminal consequences for his 34-count felony conviction in New York, helped him win "immunity" in his election interference case, and convinced a judge to toss out the classified documents case altogether.
29% : After months of delays, appeals and Supreme Court decisions that gave Trump exactly what he wanted, the cases were ultimately upended by Trump's victory against Kamala Harris, throwing the courts and the Justice Department into unprecedented territory.
27% : Trump has long viewed his election as his exoneration, despite the one criminal trial he endured resulting in a unanimous 34-count guilty verdict from a room of his Manhattan neighbors.
26% : The conviction will stand, and Trump will remain a convicted felon.
24% : On November 25, the Department of Justice special counsel who led two sprawling criminal investigations against the former president filed motions to dismiss them both, effectively throwing in the towel after a years-long attempt to prosecute Trump for 44 crimes, spelled out in hundreds of pages of evidence.
24% : "Trump routinely conflates his mountain of civil and criminal cases with an attack on the American people and rule of law itself.
12% : Despite Trump's public attempts to influence officials to overturn election results, impeachment hearings, congressional investigations, and real-time footage of the attack and Trump's response, followed by hundreds of court filings that thread them all together, Trump has escaped any criminal consequences for his actions surrounding the 2020 election and its aftermath.
7% : The Supreme Court's ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, notably does not address whether Trump could be immune from prosecution for pressuring his vice president Mike Pence to reject election results, nor did Roberts determine whether any of the conduct that makes up the charges against the former president -- like spreading election lies and conspiring to recruit "fake" electors in states he lost -- would count as "official" business.

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