Trump's still going to go after Smith. I doubt any amount of ring kissing will save him.

This will have a side effect of first enraging, and the disillusioning anybody who legitimately thought a Trump prosecution was necessary. Lots of those folks will become cynical about any government effort to hold presidents accountable, whether or not Trump needed such accountability.

This is an impetus for further concentration of executive power.

>This is an impetus for further concentration of executive power.

After this July, "Unitary Executive Power" is no longer a theory, but an establishment in practice. I'm not sure if it gets more "impetus for further concentration of executive power" than that.