Posted on 12/07/2017 10:33:03 PM PST by Michael van der Galien
One of the major potential weaknesses of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is that voters could consider it a political hack job. This is especially a problem since several (former) members of his team are partisan Democrats who aggressively criticized President Trump when he was still a candidate for president.
Clearly, voters -- especially Republicans and independents -- are paying attention. According to a new CBS News poll, 81 percent of Republican voters believe that the investigation into Trump associates and Russia is "politically motivated." 48 percent of independents feel the same way. Only 17 percent of Republican voters and 42 percent of independents believe the investigation to be "justified."
This will be a serious problem for Mueller going forward. If he implicates anyone else -- especially higher-up Trump officials -- the general belief will be that he's doing so purely for political reasons.
This feeling is undoubtedly exacerbated by the news that one of his most prominent deputies, Jeannie Rhee, was the personal attorney of Barack Obama man Ben Rhodes and also represented the Clinton Foundation. As PJMedia's Debra Heine reported: "Two other members of the team have been revealed as highly questionable hires in recent days as well — Peter Strzok, an anti-Trumper who helped exonerate Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Weissmann, an unscrupulous prosecutor who told outgoing acting Attorney General Sally Yates in an email that he was 'proud' of her for defying President Trump's travel ban."
Interestingly enough, a large majority of voters (67 percent) believe that Trump advisors did have improper dealings with Russia.
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Not 100?
Republicans, not Conservatives!
:)
99% of people who actually think agree.
I don't know how representative they it's sort of a leading indicator to me.
you forget it is a main stream poll like the ones done in the elections so naturaly it is off by 10-15 %.
The other 19% must have been “Never Trumpers”.
Hillary accused Trump of what she has been doing. Now taxpayer money is being wasted to try to pin Hillary’s treasonous acts on Trump. How blatantly evil can half of our government be? I want my share of the wasted money refunded to me.
19% are undocumented Democrats.
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