More than twice as many Americans approve as disapprove of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of possible coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds, indicating that the conservative effort to discredit the probe has fallen flat as the case has progressed toward its first public charges.
A 58 percent majority say they approve of Mueller’s handling of the investigation, while 28 percent say they disapprove, the Post-ABC poll finds. People’s views depend in large part on their political leanings, but overall, Americans are generally inclined to trust Mueller and the case he has made so far.
Meanwhile, fewer than 4 in 10 Americans say they believe Trump is cooperating with Mueller’s investigation, while about half believe he is not.
A similar 49 percent think it is likely Trump himself committed a crime in connection with possible Russian attempts to influence the election, although more say this view is based on suspicion rather than on hard evidence.
To put it simply almost sixty percent of Americans have faith in how Robert Mueller is conducting his investigation, while just under fifty percent think that Trump is guilty of a crime.
That makes it all but impossible for Trump to fire Mueller, or successfully sabotage this investigation.
There is an excellent article on Slate titled, "Robert Mueller's Brilliant Strategy for Outmaneuvering Trump Pardons".
ReplyDeleteWhen you read the article, it will give you hope.
Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHard to shout "FAKE NEWS!" when you've got a subpoena shoved under your nose.
ReplyDeleteMaybe dotard can't fire him, but you can bet that there's a scared contingent conniving together to see how they can. Proves them all the more guilty in my mind.
ReplyDelete"I'll do anything until the courts say I can't" ring a bell? Speaking of dotards....
Elected republicans don't care about the 58%, they only care about what will get them past the primaries, and that is the 38% number. These republicans put their own re-election ahead of everything, so if supporting the firing of Mueller will get them there, they will do it. The hell with America, democracy and freedom.
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ReplyDelete"The two former presidents think that Trump is a "blowhard" who is destroying the GOP. Both men also suggested Trump doesn't have a clue what it means to be the leader of the free world."
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/04/bush-presidents-speak-blowhard-trump-call-unfit-president.html
"Learning is politics."
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/04/chris-matthews-calls-trump-groundhog-day-presidents-idiotic-stuff-day.html
LIKE teddy the KINK cruZZer ?"These attitudes will remain long after Trump leaves the political stage, says Major. “I think that for people whose support for Trump is that they feel he [is] putting their concerns, as a person who is white, first, if he were to, in fact, stop doing that, that would erode their support for him in favor of some other candidate who might put their concerns first.”"Watching the whole runup to the election, “every time that Hillary would mention diversity and difference I would say to myself: ‘there go another 100 white voters,” Major says. “By emphasizing differences and diversity, what research in social psychology shows is that at an implicit, unconscious level whites, not just prejudiced whites, associate diversity with ‘not me.’”
ReplyDelete"In a study published in late October 2016, Major and her colleagues found that just by reminding white voters—be they Republican or Democrat—of changing demographics that show the U.S. won’t have a single racial or ethnic majority by 2055 was enough to tilt them toward voting Trump."
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/is-trump-losing-the-rust-belt-and-the-deplorables/
60% the number of Americans that voted against him!
ReplyDelete"Deborah Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and the Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University. She was the founding president of the International Association of Legal Ethics, the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, and the former founding director of Stanford's Center on Ethics. She is the nation's most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the author of 27 books in the fields of professional responsibility, leadership, and gender. Her latest text is titled>
ReplyDelete"Cheating: Ethics and Law in Everyday Life."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/professor-author-deborah-l-rhode/
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ReplyDelete"Los Angeles officials named Nov. 3 “Selena Day.”
EXCEPCIONAL!
http://time.com/5010432/where-is-selena-quintanilla-star-in-hollywood/