From the go, this whole saga has been an attempt using the media to mold public opinion against the president. It appears that it just strengthens President Trump's base while “preaching to the choir” of lefty lunatics.
President Trump has mastered the art of the “reality show” and using “new media” to totally bypass the biased MSM. The tricks of the left no longer work and Trump will not back down. Heck, I suspect he relishes a good fight!
It takes a lot of time for “regular folks” to (1) pay attention and (2) understand what is going on. One of the big blow backs of Mueller's appearance is now folks are aware of Clinton/FBI/Intel hand in creating this tempest in a teapot.
With the IG/AG Barr/Durham reports/investigations coming out I think we will finally see attitudes shift which will allow the proper prosecution of offenders. I doubt it will every reach to the top but I am sure a number of players are not sleeping well at night.
Just my thoughts.
Notice how other presidents age in office? Notice how Trump is imperturbable? He has endured the hardest first three years of any president in history, IMHO, and it doesn’t show a bit. It’s like he draws energy from it, and like a fine wine, only improves with age and experience. “No weapon formed against him prospers.”
Unlike us FReepers, most people have no idea who Christopher Steel, Fusion GPS or any of the background about this case. Most people have no idea about Mueller’s background in the White Bulger case.
The average registered voter still gets most of their news from the networks and maybe a little off the internet. They are too busy with life, work, kids and trying to get a decent nights sleep.
Many are totally turned off by politics in general. MOST PEOPLE DO NOT READ. Not only news, they have not read a book, even a Grisham book, in years.
Many guys in may office that make six figure incomes have no idea of the real details behind this fiasco. They can probably tell you the score of last nights Red Sox/Yankees game but probably have no idea who “the Squad” is.
If you watched the recap of this Dem Disaster on Good Morning America yesterday you would think everything was OK. No indication of how bad it went. They were extremely one sided in the editing of the clips they showed. This is where my 91 year old mother gets her news. She can still see through it, but she does not have the internet.
Even a friend of mine who is fairly well informed conservative still thinks that maybe Trump did do something. However, he is sick of it and wishes the government would just take care of the real problems of the country like unchecked immigration.