Posted on 09/11/2018 1:43:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport said on Tuesday that Americans have come to reject the idea that President Trump did anything criminal with regards to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
"A lot of Americans have dismissed the idea that he [Trump] colluded to the extent that he did something illegal," Newport told Hill.TV's Joe Concha on "What America's Thinking."
"A lot more Americans would say he did something wrong, but it wasn't illegal," he continued.
Newport was referring to a Gallup poll released last week that found that only 29 percent of Americans said they believed Trump acted illegally in Russian involvement during the 2016 campaign.
Twenty-seven percent said Trump acted unethically but did nothing illegal, while 35 percent said he did not do anything seriously wrong.
The same survey also found that 31 percent of those polled said the president acted illegally with regards to nondisclosure payments to women who claim to have had affairs with him. Thirty-seven percent of respondents said Trump acted unethically but not illegally in the payments, and 23 percent said he did nothing seriously wrong.
Russian election meddling and the alleged hush-money payments have thorns in Trump's side for months. Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told a court last month that he violated campaign finance laws "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," referring to the president.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has secured indictments, guilty pleas or convictions from a series of Russian nationals and former Trump campaign officials in his probe, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
The reason people have a vague feeling he might have done something wrong is because the Democratic Media Complex keeps the Russian-Collusion narrative alive with irrelevant alleged 'links' and innuendos.
Probably because they have been hearing about it for two years without a dust particle of evidence.
31 percent of the people don't know their ass from a hole in the ground about illegalities. Nondisclosure payments aren't illegal.....................
Mulehead has known this all along.
He was/is distracting from the corruption
at DOJ and the FBI.
As well as Uranium 1.
Mueller can not permit this. He is going to have to make headlines somehow.
We need to see the cross tabs, bet those 31% got their info from CNN
Standards are low. I wish politicians didn’t skulk around, looking for dirt on their opponents. Trump’s campaign looked.
But, he’s a saint compared to sh!tlery, who actually sought to manufacture fake evidence against Trump.
One thing is distasteful. The other is felonious.
Accuse Gallup of obstruction of justice.
I think the media has pushed that narrative.
The constant rumors spread by the media make it appear to the public Trump MUST have done SOMETHING wrong.
They can't take Trump down with one punch so they're going with 'death by a thousand rumors'.
It is probably due to the fact that what exactly Trump and the Russians were supposed to have done has never, ever, been spelled out.
Or what the Russians are capable of doing that the democrats and the smartest woman on the planet could not do.
It is only referred to, as in “We know that the Russians meddled in the election.”
Article at Gallup:
Three in 10 Say Trump Acted Illegally During 2016 Campaign
That's unfortunate. It means another selective prosecution or perhaps even yet one more innocent witch hunt victim who cannot afford the lawyers to defend himself.
Apparently men who are wealthy and powerful also have captured the market on testosterone. It kind of goes with the territory but Trump at least seems to have better sense about it that Weinstein, Clinton and many others of his ilk.
The Trump haters want to believe he did something bad, the rest know better.
2 years of RussiaRussiaRussia...and this is the best they do in brainwashing the public.
President Trump did nothing wrong with Russia.
And wheres the poll showing the DNC, Hillary,Obama are “ pure as the driven snow”
What’s really interesting, though, is that if this number is accurate a lot of Trump haters no longer believe it.
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