Thread: Poll: 60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Session

Poll: 60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Sessions



14:21 31 august 2018

Source: msn.com

Wednesday.The poll revealed that 59 percent of registered voters ap prove of Mueller's investigation, marking an 11-point jump from respondents who said the same in a July Fox News poll. Thirty-seven percent of respondents said they disapprove of Mueller's probe.

© Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post President Trump speaks with U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro and FIFA President Gianni Infantino during a meeting in the Oval Office on Aug. 28, 2018.

President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s Russia investigation and say the president should not fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

At the dawn of the fall campaign sprint to the midterm elections, which will determine whether Democrats retake control of Congress, the poll finds a majority of the public has turned against Trump and is on guard against his efforts to influence the Justice Department and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s wide-ranging probe. According to the latest Fox News Poll. © FoxNews.com What happened to the Democratic Party since 2006? In a word, politics. The top concern voters have regarding illegal immigration is the possible drain on Uncle Sam: 69 percent are “very” or “somewhat” concerned it will overburden government programs.


Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings that could lead to Trump being removed from office, while 46 percent say Congress should not.


And a narrow majority — 53 percent — say they think Trump has tried to interfere with Mueller’s investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice; 35 percent say they do not think the president has tried to interfere.

Overall, 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance, with 36 percent approving, according to the poll. This is only a slight shift from the last Post-ABC survey, in April, which measured Trump’s rating at 56 percent disapproval and 40 percent approval.

The new poll was conducted Aug. 26 to 29, in the week after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted of federal tax and bank fraud and after former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty and implicated the president in illegal payments to silence women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump.

The four-month gap between Post-ABC polls makes it difficult to attribute the modest uptick in disapproval of Trump to specific events. Other public polls have shown Trump’s disapproval rating in the low- to mid-50s and have not tracked a rise since the Manafort conviction and Cohen guilty plea.

Trump has tried to rally support for Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 elections by pointing to his economic record. This week’s poll finds that despite the president’s unpopularity with voters, he gets better ratings when it comes to the economy: 45 percent of Americans approve and 47 percent disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy.

Trump’s overall popularity breaks down along lines of partisanship, ethnicity and gender, according to the poll. While 78 percent of Republicans approve of his performance, 93 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of independents disapprove. More men support him than women, and while 45 percent of whites back him, 19 percent of nonwhites approve.



© Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post President Trump stops to talk to reporters and members of the media as he make his way to board the Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 17, 2018.

The poll finds that there are clear limitations to Trump’s efforts all summer to politicize and discredit the Russia investigation. The president has fired a near-daily barrage of tweets labeling the probe a “witch hunt” and attacking the credibility of Mueller and several current and former Justice Department officials.
But 63 percent of Americans support Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, with 52 percent saying they support it strongly; 29 percent oppose the probe.

Opinions on Mueller’s work also break down on partisan lines, with 61 percent of Republicans opposing the probe but an even larger 85 percent of Democrats expressing support. Among independents, however, a two-thirds majority of 67 percent back the investigation.

Trump has complained that Manafort was treated unfairly by Mueller’s prosecutors, and after a jury convicted Manafort earlier this month the president tweeted that he felt “very badly” for him.

But 67 percent of Americans think Mueller’s case against Manafort was justified, while 17 percent say it was unjustified, according to the poll.

Trump’s praise of Manafort has stirred speculation that he might pardon his former campaign chairman, but the poll finds that it would be a political land mine for the president. Two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump pardoning Manafort — 53 percent strongly oppose it — and 18 percent support a pardon.

Trump has ratcheted up his public attacks on Sessions in recent weeks and has consulted his personal attorneys and other advisers about firing the attorney general, whom he has viewed as insufficiently loyal after Sessions recused himself last year from overseeing the Russia investigation because of a conflict of interest.

But the public is squarely behind Sessions. Sixty-four percent of Americans do not think Trump should fire Sessions, with 19 percent saying he should and 17 percent saying they have no opinion. Nearly half of Republicans, 47 percent, say Trump should not fire the attorney general, with 31 percent saying he should.

Just under a quarter of Americans, 23 percent, say they agree with Trump’s criticisms of Sessions for allowing the Mueller investigation to proceed, while 62 percent say they side with Sessions, who has said he is following the law.

Two-thirds of Americans say they had read or heard at least some of the news about Cohen’s guilty plea to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws, though less than a quarter heard “a great deal” about the news.


© Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk from the Oval Office to board the Marine One helicopter as they depart from the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 24, 2018.

Cohen told a federal judge last week that before the 2016 campaign, then-candidate Trump directed him to pay off two women to keep their stories of alleged affairs with Trump from becoming public.

The poll finds that 61 percent of Americans think that Trump committed a crime if he did direct Cohen to make the payments, while 31 percent say he did not commit a crime.

Democrats are hoping to retake control of one or both houses of Congress in November’s elections. If they do, party leaders will face pressure from their energized base to use congressional oversight committees to investigate potential misconduct by the president and his administration, as well as perhaps begin impeachment proceedings.

The survey finds a clear partisan divide on the issue. While 75 percent of Democrats say Congress should beginimpeachment hearings, 82 percent of Republicans say lawmakers should not. Among independents, 49 percent support impeachmentwhile 46 percent oppose it.

The Post-ABC poll was conducted among a random national sample of 1,003 adults reached on conventional and cellphones; the margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

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But 67 percent of Americans think Mueller’s case against Manafort was justified, while 17 percent say it was unjustified, according to the poll.

If he's a tax cheat, he's a tax cheat and should be punished for his crime. When a crime is found during an investigation, you don't just turn your head an ignore it because it's unrelated to the crime being investigated. That's like saying we should just ignore a crime of dealing drugs just because it was found out during an investigation for child abuse. A crime is a crime regardless of how it is found out and the individual should be punished in accordance with the law.

Originally Posted by MW

If he's a tax cheat, he's a tax cheat and should be punished for his crime. When a crime is found during an investigation, you don't just turn your head an ignore it because it's unrelated to the crime being investigated. That's like saying we should just ignore a crime of dealing drugs just because it was found out during an investigation for child abuse. A crime is a crime regardless of how it is found out and the individual should be punished in accordance with the law.

It is hard to believe some are defending this activity. A tax cheat is a tax cheat and I don't care if the name is Sharpton or Manafort.

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

It is hard to believe some are defending this activity. A tax cheat is a tax cheat and I don't care if the name is Sharpton or Manafort.

Those whining about it support excusing Manafort because his crime has nothing to do with the Russian collusion probe. Of course that's an utterly ridiculous excuse and it's not supported by the rule of law.

Under US law and Constitution, if the basis for your search warrant is bogus and illegal, any discoveries under that warrant are inadmissible in court. The Special Counsel had no legitimate cause to even request Paul Manafort's tax returns or emails or text messages or bank records or anything else without a legal justifiable purpose based on probable cause, of which there was none. There was no probable cause for Mueller or anyone else to search and seize documents and communications of Paul Manafort, because the basis of it was looking for collusion with the Russians as the reason Trump was the election, which they knew to be false, they knew the premise was fabricated. Under US law that is illegal, the search was illegal, the evidence inadmissable and Paul Manafort's civil rights were violated.

Originally Posted by Judy

Under US law and Constitution, if the basis for your search warrant is bogus and illegal, any discoveries under that warrant are inadmissible in court. The Special Counsel had no legitimate cause to even request Paul Manafort's tax returns or emails or text messages or bank records or anything else without a legal justifiable purpose based on probable cause, of which there was none. There was no probable cause for Mueller or anyone else to search and seize documents and communications of Paul Manafort, because the basis of it was looking for collusion with the Russians as the reason Trump was the election, which they knew to be false, they knew the premise was fabricated. Under US law that is illegal, the search was illegal, the evidence inadmissable and Paul Manafort's civil rights were violated.

Your argument didn't work for Manafort's lawyers and it's not going to work for you.

Poll: Trump disapproval rating hits 60 percent, a new high

GeobeatsGEOBEATS
Aug 31st 2018 10:30AM

According to a new ABC/Washington Post poll, President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a new high.

Sixty percent of the 1,003 adults surveyed said they disapprove of the president’s job performance, with 53 percent saying they do so strongly.

Trump also hit a new low with an approval rating of only 36 percent.

Furthermore, 63 percent voiced support for the unimpeded continuation of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and 64 percent said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should not be fired.

The poll was conducted from August 26 to 29, the week following the tax and bank fraud convictions of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and the numerous guilty pleas—some of which implicated the president—of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

Notably, Trump has said that his decision-making process does not include consideration for poll numbers.

“I don’t do it for the polls. Honestly — people won’t necessarily agree with this — I do nothing for the polls,” the president told reporters on Wednesday. “I do it to do what’s right. I’m here for an extended period of time. I’m here for a period that’s a very important period of time. And we are straightening out this country.”

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Notably, Trump has said that his decision-making process does not include consideration for poll numbers.

Polls must be important to Donald Trump because he keeps quoting them when they are favorable to him.

Originally Posted by MW

Your argument didn't work for Manafort's lawyers and it's not going to work for you.

It should help him. The investigation had no basis, the search had no legal cause, therefore, it should all be inadmissible under the 4th Amendment. But we'll see how it goes.

Originally Posted by MW

Polls must be important to Donald Trump because he keeps quoting them when they are favorable to him.

Sure, who wouldn't?