Only 51% of Republicans think Trump shouldn’t be investigated for collusion. He’s in big trouble with his own party.
ABC gauging the opinion of the American Public. Faux News influencing an imbalanced buffoon.
Holy crap. Those numbers for Republicans are catastrophic. The RNC and it’s subunits are betting the midterm farm on whipping up base support with a narrative that half of Republicans are going to recoil from in disgust.
I haven’t the time to check, but my recollection is that those numbers are pretty close to Nixon’s on the eve of his resignation.
With those kinds of numbers, firing Rosenstein, puts himself on a downhill rocket sled to the land of Foregone Conclusions. And he’s too NPD to know it.
Mueller’s hard work has earned him credibility with the public. People are genuinely curious to know the extent of Trump’s crimes and Russia’s efforts to undermine our Democracy. Trump does consume poll information and he’ll back off. I do think the events of this week will cause him to seek a back channel to Mueller to negotiate for his exit in exchange for avoidance of prosecution.
I know he huffed and puffed at Rosenstein and there are articles out there stating that Rosenstein is preparing to be fired by Trump but (as I’ve maintained) I think it’s too late for that. If I’m proven wrong, I’ll own up to it. These are all probabilities and guesses, not certainties.
Trump’s best hope is that Mueller chooses not to indict and the House chooses not to impeach. The best way to angle for that is to sit quiet and let things proceed. His other option, of course, is to negotiate for an exit.
If he does fire Rosenstein and Sessions, both of those two will stab Trump like the Romans after Caesar. I think Trump knows this, which is why he didn’t do it earlier. Now, he has the strongest confirmation yet that his attempts to undermine Mueller aren’t working and Mueller is getting stronger.
Right now it is being reported in the WSJ that a Trump insider says firing Rosenstein and Sessions is now only a matter of time. The angrier Trump gets, the less impulse control he will have. He is probably smashing things and punching walls with his tiny hands right now.
“69 percent of respondents support Mueller’s investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, 64 percent support his probe of Trump’s business dealings, and 58 percent support his investigation into money paid to silence women about their alleged affairs with Trump.”
In all fairness to Trump, he still polls higher than John Wayne Gacy, anal fistulas, and drug-resistant crab lice.
(But only within the margin of error.)
WH has an announcement to make re: Rosenstein sometime this afternoon. So maybe the rumors are true? Or, is this Trump trying to change the news cycle on Comey? Both? Who knows?
An innocent person has nothing to fear from an investigation. The guilty will attempt to discredit those conducting same. Trump is pathetic, as are those who continue to defend him.
If anything, these poll shows what a partisan witch hunt this is. Democrats and Independents should recuse themselves from these these polls, because like Mueller they have been biased by the facts.
Who gets appointed as the acting if Rosenstein is fired?
I can’t believe this administration will be able to get a new appointment confirmed by the Senate at this time, so I’m expecting the job to pass down the chain of command.
The next occupant of the White House will wonder where those tiny indentations in the wall came from.
So we’re back to the pre-Christmas planned protests over the Mueller firing. I hate to sound selfish, but I’m going to be near DC this weekend and going back there any time soon isn’t in the cards. So if he’s going to do it, do you think we could get him to do it today?
Solicitor General, but Trump can arguably override that and appoint anyone who already is in a position requiring Senate confirmation.
You cannot believe this poll.
They bused in a thousand people into New Hampshire and another thousand Mexicans into Texas and they are the only groups polled.
…but Trump can arguably override that and appoint anyone who already is in a position requiring Senate confirmation.
Too bad.
Doubtless it’d have been Pruitt, if he weren’t such a likely prospect for impeachment. I’m supposing it’ll be some other party animal, if the SG isn’t ‘reliable’ enough.
WaPo-ABC Poll: Majority Of Americans Support Mueller’s Investigation
Ignore all that -
Trump’s 38-42% minority, composed mainly of white tribalist own his government. This is the slow moving coup d’etat, a crypto-apartheid system that’s been duly warned.
The dawn of authoritarian trump is here …
Alarmist you say?
If the likes of Bill Kristol’s already quaking with fear - What are you waiting for?
Well, the anal fistula poll was actually about Trump, too…