Mod: Can you believe there are people who think Trump is dishonest and lies often? What is the world coming to?
60% of Americans Say Trump Was Dishonest in Handling of Mueller Probe (
Paste Magazinelink): A new poll from the
Wall Street Journal and
NBC reveals that the majority of
Americans think our president was not honest in how he’s dealt with the
Mueller investigation. 60% believe that
Donald Trump was dishonest in his handling of the
Russia probe, while 37% say that
Mr. Cheats At Golf himself was honest about it.
The fact that over a third of those polled think that
Trump was truthful shows that
Attorney General William Barr’s mischaracterization tactics were fruitful—an unsettling revelation, to say the least. And while the redacted version of the report
Barr provided serves up plenty of takeaways,
Democratic lawmakers are still fighting to have the full report provided to
Congress. On Wednesday, the
House Judiciary Committee is voting on whether
Barr should be held in contempt of
Congress for failing to provide legislators with an unredacted version of the report. Meanwhile,
Republicans like
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are still claiming “case closed.”
In response,
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stated, per
USA Today, “What we have here is a concerted effort to circle the wagons, to protect the president from accountability, to whitewash his reprehensible conduct by simply declaring it irrelevant.” Imagine how
Republicans would react if
Barack Obama had handled such an investigation in the same manner as
Trump.
Fox News surprising poll results: Mueller is more trusted than Trump and Barr (
New York Daily Newslink): Uh, oh. Problems with the base? A
Fox News poll released Thursday had some surprising takeaways regarding respondents’ thoughts on the handling of the
Russia investigation.
The 52-page-long survey, which was conducted by a bipartisan group of pollsters between May 11 and May 14, asked people’s opinions on a variety of subjects, such as
President Trump’s likability, the economy, the
White House’s relationship with
North Korea and the handling of the
Russia investigation by special counsel
Robert Mueller and by
Attorney General William Barr.
“On the
Russia investigation, who do you trust more to tell the truth?” one of the questions asked. Respondents were given a choice between two key players in the investigation:
Between
Trump and
Mueller, 45% said they trusted the special counsel, 27% said the president, 6% said both, 16% said neither, and 6% didn’t know.
Between
Mueller and
Barr, 40% said they trusted the special counsel, 22% said the attorney general, 8% said both, 16% said neither, and 14% didn’t know.
Between congressional
Democrats and the
Trump administration, 44% said they trusted the
Democrats, 33%, said the
White House, 3% said both, 15% said neither, and 5% didn’t know. When respondents were asked about how
Barr handled the
Mueller report, the attorney general didn’t fare so well: 44% approved, while 35% disapproved. And by an even larger margin, they were weary of
Barr’s true intentions.
When asked to describe
Barr’s behavior, 45% said that he was “covering up for the president,” and 33% feel he is being “transparent.” (23% of respondents refused to answer or weren’t sure.) Another interesting takeaway that goes against
Trump’s they-are-out-to-get-me defense (“no politician in history... has been treated worse or more unfairly”): 49% said that
Democrats in
Congress are seeking the truth for the
American people, against 41% who felt they are attacking the president unfairly.
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