7 Out Of 10 Americans Want Congress To Investigate Trump For Sexual Misconduct
A vast majority of respondents in a new poll think Congress should investigate sexual harassment allegations made against President Trump.
A new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday finds 70 percent of respondents think Congress should investigate the allegations.
Just one-quarter of respondents think Congress shouldn't investigate the accusations.
Republicans and Democrats differ on the issue. Just 39 percent of Republicans say they think Congress should look into the allegations against Trump, compared to 86 percent of Democrats who feel the same way. Another 67 percent of registered Independents polled agreed Congress should look into the allegations.
Multiple women accused Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign of sexual misconduct, most of them shortly after a 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape surfaced in which Trump was heard making lewd comments about women.
Trump has denied the allegations and the White House said its official stance on the woman who have accused him of sexual harassment is that they are lying.
The poll also found that 73 percent of respondents think it is hypocritical for Trump to criticize other men who have been accused of sexual harassment. Just 16 percent think Trump is right to criticize others.
A majority of respondents, 66 percent, think if an elected official has been accused of sexual harassment or assault by multiple people, that the official should resign.
Forty-seven percent of women nationwide say they have been sexually assaulted, according to the poll, compared with 17 percent of men who say they have been sexually assaulted.
The poll was conducted from Nov. 29 to Dec. 4 among 1,747 adults. The margin of error is 2.8 percentage points.
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Any word on what the poll responders think about a retroactive investigation on the Clintons and of Ted Kennedy?
Those accusations were settled last year when they decided Hillarys emails were a bigger issue than the empty accusations against Trump.
What good would it do to investigate Ted Kennedy? HE'S DEAD FOR CHRISSAKES!!!
One of conservative Republicans favorite pastimes is beating dead horses. That should be quite obvious by now with the last 30 years of their "whataboutism" using Bill Clinton as their favorite go to meme. Even with Hillary they spent several years, millions of dollars and 8 partisan investigations into Benghazi all to conclude she was not at fault and could not have prevented it, but you'll still hear the sad witless fools complaining about how she killed four Americans. It's no surprise they would dig up Ted and start bleating about what they believe was a crime from over 40 years ago.
So is Mary Jo but she still deserves justice.
The horse is dog meat so you can stop already
I guess we can stop looking into civil rights era murders as well then. What happened to Mary Jo was a crime against all women.
I see you are referring to the minority of Americans that elected Trump as the "they". A majority of Americans didn't want Trump as their President and wanted the accusations from more than a dozen women investigated. Sadly, we have a heartless electoral college that overturned the actual will of the people.
The EC worked exactly like it was supposed to. It counted the votes across the ENTIRE country (as in the United States, emphasis on the final s) and rejected the mob mentality in a handful of blue states that would've put a dangerous careless untried should be felon in power.
So instead of putting a "should be felon" Republicans went with a morally bankrupt, self admitted sexual predator, narcissistic incompetent who is soon to be an actual felon once the Mueller investigation completes. If Republicans could prove any wrongdoing by Hillary she would have been locked up long ago, but after dozens of partisan investigations all you have is an empty bag of hopes and wishes.
Then Hillary would be President now.
So it is 1 person 1 vote except in states that vote for the person you don't want to win? Red states = 1 person 2 votes???
Well that didn't work then, since it did just that.
No, if the votes were counted only in CA and NY Hillary would win. The EC works by counting the votes in every state then sending electors from each state to vote. That is how it's been since the very first election. Dems have had over 200 years to change it if they don't like it.
You just have no clue how the electoral college actually works compared to how it was designed to work, do you?
I know that we elect the president with the ec and the popular vote won't get you a cup of coffee. Too bad the left doesn't accept that and run somebody who appeals to more than the far left coastal elite.
You know any mention of reopening those cases will result in mass hysteria by the liberal left and Democrats. Especially after the partisan train wreck the most recent of the two was.
Right now, our feckless and immoral President is being investigated by Robert Mueller, and by all accounts appears to be coming closer and closer to being fully implicated in at least an obstruction of justice and possibly other criminal activities such as money laundering and violation of the Logan Act. Let's allow that investigation to play itself out and allow indictments and criminal charges to fall as they may. Once we know exactly what Trump and Pence's involvement was or wasn't in these crimes, then we can either move on to other issues including the morality and fitness to serve for this President. Right now, keep everyone's eye on the ball.
MAGA?
(Does it really mean "Make America Grope Again?"...but only based upon your own political agenda?)
Has anyone here ever noticed that these sexual advances are total bad and wrong...when done by a member of the othe r party?
But that's is perfectly fine (or worse yet, are said not to have happened at all)-- when done by people in the party that you support?)
Time for the normally tranquil Krishna (PBUH) to weigh in on this: Most of the people here condemning one side but not the other. -- are tremendous hypocrites!!!
(It doesn't matter whether you're condemning just Democrats or just Republicans, they're really both the same in this regard)
How about the people only condemning those who have actual proof against them?
Well, you know the olde saying:
One man's "actual proof" is another man's . . . lie!
More often than not (at least in online political discussions) what a person believes to be "actual proof" is based more on the person's political agenda and not on actual facts.
There have always been liars-- especially in politics. But my observation over the years is that fewer and fewer people care about facts than they do about advancing their political agenda.
I have no idea what political party my sexual assaulter was a member of. Maybe, we could ask him. Lets do it now. Dr. Spechalske, what political party were you affiliated with?
What nakes you assume that someone who sexualky assaults people is of high moral character-- well, at least that he's moral enough to be perfectly honest about what he did or did not do?
I would like to know why he sexually assaulted me.
Oh, I know. I was just so gorgeous and irresistible he just couldn't stand it. lol