Despite report findings, almost half of Americans think Trump colluded with Russia: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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Despite report findings, almost half of Americans think Trump colluded with Russia: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn, Reuters 14 hours ago
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters down the hall as the president departs a closed Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsBy Chris Kahn
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly half of all Americans still believe President Donald Trump worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after Special Counsel Robert Mueller cleared Trump of that allegation.
Americans did feel slightly more positive about Trump after learning the findings of the 22-month investigation into Russian meddling in the election, the national opinion poll released on Tuesday showed.
But U.S. Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary of Mueller’s investigation did little to change public opinion about the president’s alleged ties to Russia or quench the public’s appetite to learn more.
According to Barr's summary released on Sunday, Mueller found no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia in the 2016 election, but did not exonerate the president on the question of obstructing the investigation.
When asked specifically about accusations of collusion and obstruction of justice, 48 percent of poll respondents said they believed “Trump or someone from his campaign worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election,” down 6 percentage points from last week.
Fifty-three percent said “Trump tried to stop investigations into Russian influence on his administration,” down 2 points from last week.
Public opinion was split sharply along party lines, with Democrats much more likely than Republicans to believe that Trump colluded with Russia and obstructed justice.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll measured the public reaction in the United States on Monday and Tuesday, after the report summary was released, gathering online responses from 1,003 adults, including 948 who said they had at least heard of the summary findings.
The poll has a credibility interval, a measure of its precision, of about 4 percentage points.
Trump's approval rating got a slight boost, with 43 percent of Americans saying they approved of his performance in office, the highest he has polled so far this year and an increase of 4 percentage points compared to a similar poll last week.
Since January, the proportion of adults who approved of Trump has ranged between 37 percent and 43 percent.
Trump heralded the summary of the Mueller report as a “complete and total exoneration” and vowed to strike back with investigations of his own against unnamed political enemies who he believes are guilty of “evil” and “treasonous things.”
Democrats have called on Barr to release the full report, a position shared by a majority of poll respondents.
Among those familiar with Barr's summary, only 9 percent said it had changed their thinking about Trump’s ties to Russia and 57 percent said they want to see the entire report.
Thirty-eight percent of all adults, including two out of three Democrats, support efforts by Democratic leaders to continue the Russia investigation in Congress, according to the poll.
The poll also found that 39 percent felt that Trump “should be impeached,” while 49 percent felt that he should not.
Click here to see the entire Reuters/Ipsos poll: https://tmsnrt.rs/2CzWPJl
(Reporting by Chris Kahn; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Leslie Adler)
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Mueller didn't clear Rump of that allegatio
As you've helpfully provided an example, it's important to know that almost 50% of the country is immune to reality.
Seriously, thanks for highlighting this poll. It's a perfect rebuttal to the claim that Democrats believe in facts or evidence. I'm keeping it bookmarked.
Trump told some big lies about "Russia". You attribute that to "politics". He must be a pathetic politician then because those lies havent helped his popularity at all and helped cause this almost two year special counsel investigation.
He lied about having no dealings with Russia, during the campaign. He lied about his aides meeting with Russians. He lied about his son and son in law and campaign manager meeting with Russians in hopes of obtaining dirt on his opponent from America's greatest post WW2 enemy. These are not minor considerations by any stretch of the imagination.
David Corn has a great summary of Trump's offenses about "Russia" which were mostly in plain sight. It is ABSURD to suggest that an investigation of Trump was not warranted. In fact, it's absurd to say that he is "innocent".
The equivalent to this poll would be a majority of Republicans believing Trump is the King of England.
Nothing you wrote contradicts the fact that Democrats are reality deniers. This poll essentially proves Democrats have no grasp on realty and would rather believe their fantasies than Bob Mueller.
I agree. An investigation was warranted. And completed. And thorough. Nearly 2 years, hundreds of witnesses and thousands of documents examined. And after all of that, there was not enough evidence to recommend an indictment of the president.
He is innocent of collusion in the same way Bill Clinton was "innocent" of wrongdoing with regard to Whitewater or Travelgate. He may not be guilty of this, but there generally isn't this much smoke without a fire somewhere.
I don't know very many people who really believe Trump is an honest person. The question is whether or not they care. His character matters a lot less when the only other choice isn't demonstrably more honest than he is (Clinton) or a raving batshit socialist (most of the current Democratic candidates).
We don't believe Barr's little summary meant to put Trump in the best possible light giving out no information. Until we see the REAL Mueller report, this is just Barr' Bullshit Cherrypicks.
I never cared about "Trump/Russia" other than as a mechanism to get this pestilence (Trumpism) out of our lives. It would have made it simpler.
Trump is an irredeemable human being, totally unfit to hold any office whatsoever.
The idea that he is now "exonerated" is laughable. He asked Russia to meddle in the election at a time he knew that they already were doing so. In other words, he gave his approval. That is collusion in plain sight.
If he even bothered cherry picking. For all we know, he wrote up this summary months ago for Trump's approval before being selected as AG. As Trump has shown, it is not illegal to lie to the press or the people.
I don't think he took lessons from Comey.
I assumed that was your opinion.
Yes. And has been for decades.
I realize that is your opinion, but the facts are that things are not worse under his presidency than they have been under most others. It's simply not the end of the world. The Framers anticipated this and installed measures to prevent catastrophe should it happen.
As it was when the Clintons were "exonerated". Again... smoke => fire. And I don't just mean 2015 or later smoke. Trump has been a reprehensible bastard for decades.
Apparently he did not. As with Bill Clinton....we have found something he's actually not guilty of.
Of course it will, should it ever be released, which would be a terrible idea.
The tinfoil hat crowd will micro-analyze every letter of every word down to the font and size.
Hilarious.
Political polls are inherently flawed. Most pollsters are increasingly guilty of using weighted responses. The above article is misleading in that it tries to give the impression that 50% in the U.S. voted a certain way. I looked up said poll and in fact they only polled 1003 people in certain areas of the country. That does not represent the entire populace. When using weighted results, the pollsters are guilty of cherry picking their results to represent the individuals commissioning the polls to begin with. In all fairness, this is not something just confined to just either side of the political spectrum. The right is just as guilty as the left in doing so, which is why I give little or no credence to any political polls.
The history of polling is that it is mostly accurate. Conservatives like to say that the polls were wrong in 2016. That is actually the opposite of the truth. National polls do not predict the electoral college, they predict the national popular vote percentages. Most of the major polls were right about that election. They predicted a small Clinton win in the popular vote, and that is exactly what happened.
You mean them polls that also said HRC would win by a landslide? Yeah right John...
I dont know why I waste my time. The polls at the time of the election showed Clinton winning the popular vote by a few points, which is what happened.
Yeah, but i do remember all the professional "Electologists" in the media talking endlessly about how Trump basically had no path to an Electoral College win though. In fact i seem to recall this polling agency polling that Clinton would win the EC by a landslide
Doh! Here's your sign dumb-asses!
that means more than half knows the left is full of shit.
even more will be sure of that after the next 2 yrs of investigating obamas admin, doj, and fbi along with the colluding media.
sell your democrat stock while ya can... the party is going to burn.
Eight ball, if there was evidence of wrong doing by the Obama administration, these "investigations" you long for would have happened already. Big mouths in the Republican controlled Congress from 2017-2019 kept saying that Obama and Clinton and Comey and Brennan etc would all be in jail soon. Their leadership had the ability to conduct such investigations AND DID NOT. Because there is no there there. The idea of a conspiracy against Trump is a right wing fantasy. As lame as they usually are, those in Congress dont usually engage in fantasies.
Those investigations will be in your imagination. Trump has been calling on Congress to investigate the Democrats for almost three years. It hasnt happened because there is no case and the leaders of the Republicans in Congress realize that. All you have is hot air conspiracy theories from disreputable sources like Breitbart. Try and face reality for a change.
Yesterday he provided us this link from April of 2018 to prove that serious investigations are already underway.
which leads to this gem
John Huber, who will investigate the FBI, is a special counsel in every way but name
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but it also leads to current news about Session's appointment of Huber, and Huber's progress is not very stimulating.
John Huber, Justice Dept. Sheriff Who Never Quite Rode Into Town
U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber won't testify before House panel on Clinton probe
House Republicans demand update on Huber probe into bias at FBI, DOJ
John Huber MIA? Crickets At DOJ
those investigations are happening right now, as we speak, and there will be more starting very soon.
what's the rush? we have the next 2 yrs to drag this out.
relax, it will be good fun for everyone.
cheers
Why did trmp try to stop the investigations?
Why didn't Don Jr, Manafort or Kushner call the FBI when Russians offered help?
Knowing about the crime and not reporting it makes them all co-conspirators...
There was no smoking gun
And....the full report has not been released yet
It is against the law for a candidate or their campaign to accept anything of value from a foreign national. I'd argue that dirt on the opposition does, in fact, hold value. Jr, et al, had a duty to report it to the FBI. While I find that the severity of his transgressions could be interpreted differently, given where you fall in agreement, it is entirely dismissive to claim that he in fact, did not commit a crime.
Steele gave his files to the FBI by way of McCain. He did what Jr should have.
He didn't.
Ask Mueller.
He didn't succeed, he did try. Ask Don McGahn.
White house attorney who threatened to quit when Trump directed him to fire Mueller. Ask Google.
The turd has fired everyone on Twitter.
Inspite of Burr's whitewash most Americans believe their own eyes and ears.
Most understand "Not Exonerated" does not equal "Completely Exonerated"...
This is sad.
If you think Mueller and his team are letting Barr mislead the public about his conclusions, you are not tethered to reality.
It's scary people who believe this are allowed to vote.
Once you've outed yourself as a Mueller truther, there's no getting your credibility back (for those who might have had some at one point).
It's like being an anti-vaxxer.
If Barr is not engaging in a damn cover-up he surely is acting guilty as shit.
RELEASE THE ENTIRE MUELLER REPORT... NOW!
He possesses much more credibility than you. He at least can and will admit when he is wrong. I have yet to ever see you do that even once.
might be wrong but from what I gather so far, trump will be de-classifying FISA at about the same time. the two go together like peas and carrots.
should be good fun
right now trump is just making them sweat, panic, and talk on their phones the NSA will have it all
if barr lied mueller would have been on every morning talk show since...
get a grip.
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im guessing he cannot write a op ed or speak to reporters either.
has mueller become deaf dumb and mute?
I find it interesting how barr can lie and yet the greatest investigator of all time according to the left does nothing about it.
mueller can leak details of an investigation but can not speak the truth out loud? too funny.
cest la vie
to correct the record....
why would he not do that?
if barr lied, mueller would have wanted to correct the record.
on twitter perhaps? does he even have a twitter? I found lots of fake/ other accounts
silence. in itself, is agreement.
ok sure... you go with that... LOL
I would show you a few others who have been suspiciously quiet about what's going on for no reason at all.
but that would be off topic for this conversation.
so for now lets just say...
and,
if you are up for the segue? let me know.
your article your call.
cheers
so ya say...
everything you have said would happen in the past two yrs, has not.
the exact opposite of everything you have said in the last 2 yrs, has.
I'm just curious here...
why do you think today will be any different?
seems they believe mueller has gone deaf, dumb and blind unless he is speaking to congress.
because mueller can leak details of a bs investigation but when it comes to correcting the record mueller has lost the ability to speak out loud.
because everyone they put their faith in has lied to them for almost 3yrs...
apparently "gaslighting" does work on the weak minded.
cheers