08-28-2018, 01:11 PM
You can draw some strange conclusions from this poll, one that includes questions of whether people believe that the President colluded with Russia and whether they believe that the President authorized illegal payments as hush money to women with whom he had affairs.
SurveyMonkey, Aug. 22-24, 4362 adults including 3843 registered voters. This is not the regular SurveyMonkey weekly tracker.
Among adults:
Approve 44 (strongly 27)
Disapprove 53 (strongly 42)
Among RV:
Approve 45 (strongly 29)
Disapprove 54 (strongly 45)
Some additional questions:
Do you believe that Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election?
Adults: Yes 49, No 46
RV: Yes 52, No 47
As you may know, President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen claimed that Trump directed him to make illegal payments to two women to stay silent about affairs they had with Trump. Do you believe Cohen’s claims?
Adults: Yes 64, No 31
RV: Yes 67, No 30
Would you like to see Congress begin the process to impeach President Trump?
Adults: Yes 44, No 51
RV: Yes 44, No 53
... If the President directed someone to make illegal payments, then he committed a crime! Colluding with a foreign power in an election is itself a disloyal deed. To be sure, Putin is nowhere near being as bad as Stalin, but on the whole such Commies as Bierut (Poland) Gottwald (Czechoslovakia), Rakosi (Hungary), Groza (Romania), and Dimitroff (Bulgaria) are widely recognized as traitors for their collaboration with Stalin in establishing Commie regimes. Trump may not be that bad, but he did misbehave badly.
At least 20% of adults and 22% of registered voters believe that the President ordered his personal attorney to make illegal payments to women whose involvement he wanted to silence... and still approve of the President. ( I cannot subdivide this polling to establish how many people disbelieve that Trump ordered the payments yet still disapprove of the President.
A guilty plea is definitive, and with this goes disbarment.
SurveyMonkey, Aug. 22-24, 4362 adults including 3843 registered voters. This is not the regular SurveyMonkey weekly tracker.
Among adults:
Approve 44 (strongly 27)
Disapprove 53 (strongly 42)
Among RV:
Approve 45 (strongly 29)
Disapprove 54 (strongly 45)
Some additional questions:
Do you believe that Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election?
Adults: Yes 49, No 46
RV: Yes 52, No 47
As you may know, President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen claimed that Trump directed him to make illegal payments to two women to stay silent about affairs they had with Trump. Do you believe Cohen’s claims?
Adults: Yes 64, No 31
RV: Yes 67, No 30
Would you like to see Congress begin the process to impeach President Trump?
Adults: Yes 44, No 51
RV: Yes 44, No 53
... If the President directed someone to make illegal payments, then he committed a crime! Colluding with a foreign power in an election is itself a disloyal deed. To be sure, Putin is nowhere near being as bad as Stalin, but on the whole such Commies as Bierut (Poland) Gottwald (Czechoslovakia), Rakosi (Hungary), Groza (Romania), and Dimitroff (Bulgaria) are widely recognized as traitors for their collaboration with Stalin in establishing Commie regimes. Trump may not be that bad, but he did misbehave badly.
At least 20% of adults and 22% of registered voters believe that the President ordered his personal attorney to make illegal payments to women whose involvement he wanted to silence... and still approve of the President. ( I cannot subdivide this polling to establish how many people disbelieve that Trump ordered the payments yet still disapprove of the President.
A guilty plea is definitive, and with this goes disbarment.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.