Posted on 04/23/2024 9:36:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the first day of testimony wrapped up in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial, new polling showed that a majority of New Yorkers consider the prosecution warranted.
A Siena College Research Institute poll released Monday, April 22, showed that 54 percent of respondents said the trial is “legitimate,” while 30 percent saw the prosecution as a meritless “witch hunt.”
Broken down by party, 77 percent of Democrats and 44 percent of independents called the proceedings a “legitimate trial to determine whether Trump is or is not guilty of criminal behavior.” Meanwhile, 66 percent of Republicans considered the trial a “witch hunt” meant to “interfere in this year’s presidential election.”
“A majority of New Yorkers, 60 percent – including 68 percent of Democrats, 57 percent of Republicans and 50 percent of independents – are paying a great deal or some attention to Trump’s ongoing trial,” Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said.
The Siena College poll was conducted between Monday, April 15 and Wednesday, April 17 with 806 registered New York voters.
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34% of New York Republicans DID NOT SEE the trial as a “witch hunt,” at all.
New York is a very deep cesspool of asinine, immoral, people.
I’ll bet 80% of the respondents didn’t have a clue about the laws Trump was accused of violating. No way he gets a fair trial in NY.
After DC gets nuked, New York is next.
Just to be sure. /spit
Meh.
In deep blue NY, just over half the respondents are buying into the legitimacy of this bogus trial.
Since Trump finds himself in a NY courtroom over allegedly using his own personal funds to pay attorney’s fees to cover a NDA, where the counterparty has been found liable by a federal court to compensate Trump for over $620,000.00 for violating that NDA terms, and where every tawdry detail about this private matter is now a public spectacle, I think it’s only right that Congress open up their sexual assault payout fund and the related details on who was paid, how much, and for what transgression so that we have like transparency on what the DC scumbags are doing with funds that ARE NOT their own!
I’d like to do a survey where the question is, “Does it bother you that Prosecutor Bragg won’t say what law Donald Trump has broken?”
Yeah, I know, it’s like “Have you stopped beating your wife?”
But I wonder how many New Yorkers even know the basic facts regarding the lawlessness of this trial.
For instance - besides there being no crime cited - how is federal campaign “mis-reporting”/fraud the jurisdiction of state courts rather than the Federal Election Commission?
How the heck is a candidate “trying to influence an election” illegal?
The whole thing is so asinine it would be funny, if it wasn’t so revealing of just how third-world New York actually is.
I’d like to do a survey where the question is, “Does it bother you that Prosecutor Bragg won’t say what law Donald Trump has broken?”
“Well he had to, didn’t he? I mean be fair, there was nothing else he could do. I mean he had transgressed the unwritten law.”
No way he gets a fair trial in NY.
It’s been a long time since Salem. Nobody thinks Trump is a witch.
Seems more like a deep cesspool of conformists who fear losing social credit if they are heard to disagree with the prevailing media narrative.
Yet another reason to expel NY from the Union.
Who the hell wants to be ruled by these disgusting morons?
The trial is a burlesque of “justice” and the charges are the very definition of strained legal theories. He used the wrong words for a ledger entry?!
Not Cyrus Vance nor the FEC would go there. Only a dimwitted Affirmative Action admit to Harvard took the bait. Meanwhile, a guy who clearly violated the Espionage Act not once but hundreds of times over 47 years luxuriates in the White Hut, free of any legal threat.
And as for the “jury”, you might as well call them the local Rat party Central Committee.
Nothing more then a Soviet show trial.
The fact that a majority approves simply shows how insane they all are.
I’m under the impression that to press charges against somebody you have to cite what law they broke. Seems like a judge should be able to look at the complaint, see that there’s no law cited, and reject it. Period.
But then Tucker Carlson was talking with Joe Rogan about a Black activist who was charged by the DOJ with “fraud” (no law cited) for saying that the US pushed Putin into a corner where he had to invade Ukraine. No law cited.
This is truly third-world territory. How can any court accept a case where there is no law cited as being broken?
What's the difference between paying somebody to not say something versus paying somebody to say something?
Also, if David Pecker and Michael Cohen paid money to buy the rights to a scandalous story in order to bury it is interfering with the 2016 presidential election, then why isn't 51 intelligence officers signing an open letter declaring the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation also interfering with the 2020 election?
-PJ
And, how gullible the average voter has become. Maybe, always was.
BTTT
“Falsifying business records”. What’s the statute governing that?
Isn’t Merchan being paid money to “hush” Trump up?
I wonder if he reports his salary as a campaign expense.
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