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Nearly two-thirds of voters think Trump committed crimes before taking office, poll finds

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Also, most polled view Cohen as more trustworthy than Trump. These are staggering numbers.

[h=1]Nearly two-thirds of voters think Trump committed crimes before taking office, poll finds[/h]
[FONT=&quot]One the first polls conducted since President Donald Trump's former attorney implicated him in illegal activity was released Tuesday, and most of the results were not very good for the president.

A poll from Quinnipiac University National found 64 percent of American voters believe Trump committed crimes before assuming office, while 24 percent did not believe that he had (another 13 percent said they weren't sure.) Forty-five percent said they think Trump committed crimes since taking office compared to 43 percent who think he did not.

The numbers among Republicans were better for the president, with a third saying they believe he committed crimes before taking office and 48 percent saying he did not. Only 12 percent of Republicans said Trump had committed crimes since taking office while 79 percent did not
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Poll: Voters Say Hillary Is A Dishonest Liar
 
Like in general committing crimes? I mean, he's a sleazeball conman, of course he broke laws. But he's like the Clintons, we all know they did it, but can't really prove it in court.
 
Jimmy Carter was squeaky clean and one of the worse Presidents.
I'm sure Trump used our laws to his advantage, skirted some and maybe broke some in his decades of business dealings. But does that mean he's a bad President?
 
Acadia said:
Jimmy Carter was squeaky clean and one of the worse Presidents.
I'm sure Trump used our laws to his advantage, skirted some and maybe broke some in his decades of business dealings. But does that mean he's a bad President?
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No. It means he's an unethical criminal.
 
Acadia said:
Jimmy Carter was squeaky clean and one of the worse Presidents.
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Really? What exactly did he do wrong? He had an oil crisis crop up in the middle of his first term, and it had nothing to do with anything he did. His biggest mistake as president was actually listening to something stupid that Republicans told him he should do.
 
Ikari said:
And that somehow negates that Trump isn't some shady ass, sleazy, conman?

Clinton did it, Clinton did it, Clinton did it. It's getting old.
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What's getting old is the left claiming that Trump is scum and yet they would have accepted Hillary as president. I didn't vote for either.
 
Acadia said:
I'm sure Trump used our laws to his advantage, skirted some and maybe broke some in his decades of business dealings. But does that mean he's a bad President?
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Yes. Yes, it does. It by definition means he's a bad president. That's the definition of corruption. Nobody is above the law, and you don't put a career criminal in charge of the greatest country in the world with access to nuclear weapons and expect it to go well. I don't give a flying **** whether you like one or two of his policies. Donald Trump is an immoral person and if you think he's a great president so are you.

The President sets the standard for a nation. If the President is allowed to commit blatant crimes for his own benefit then how can we tell any other person in the country they can't do the exact same thing?
 
Wow, a poll says that? Did these people also conduct a poll before his electoral win that said he had no chance of winning? I wonder if these are the same people that said they wouldn't vote for him, that then voted for him.
 

I would argue Obama's blatant and arrogant executive overreach far exceeds anything Trump has done in office.
Then again, that makes you the same kind of person who ignores our Constitution, right?
 
Moderate Right said:
What's getting old is the left claiming that Trump is scum and yet they would have accepted Hillary as president. I didn't vote for either.
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Neither did I, Hillary is scum. Slightly less offensive scum than Trump, but scum none the less. I wouldn't trust either with a ham sandwich. But just because Hillary is an untrustworthy, status quo Republocrat willing to sell out ideals for dollars doesn't mean that somehow Trump is absolved of his conman antics.

Did Trump commit crimes before becoming President? Most assuredly! The man is as dishonest as the Clintons....maybe even more so.
 

Do you know when the oil crisis started? How many terms do you think Carter served?
 
Anthony60 said:
Wow, a poll says that? Did these people also conduct a poll before his electoral win that said he had no chance of winning? I wonder if these are the same people that said they wouldn't vote for him, that then voted for him.
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I wonder why so many people would think that.

It can't be the media pounding home the idea that Trump breaks every law known to man, could it?
 
Acadia said:
I would argue Obama's blatant and arrogant executive overreach far exceeds anything Trump has done in office.
Then again, that makes you the same kind of person who ignores our Constitution, right?
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I wonder if breaking drug laws, as Obama did, meant he would be a bad President or is it just other kinds of laws that should not be broken.
 
24% did not.

That's lower than his typical 33-37% (his base) for anything of the sort. That means part of his base believes he committed crimes.
 
Acadia said:
I would argue Obama's blatant and arrogant executive overreach far exceeds anything Trump has done in office.
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Donald Trump just declared a National Emergency for something that isn't even kind of an emergency. President Obama did absolutely nothing that President Bush hadn't done before him.

Acadia said:
Then again, that makes you the same kind of person who ignores our Constitution, right?
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So basically you're just telling me that you know less than nothing about our Constitution, right? President Obama literally taught Constitutional Law as a College Professor. He is a graduate of Harvard Law. I can assure you that he understands what is and is not a power of the President way ****ing better than you do.

But if you want to talk about the Constitution, fine. The Constitution states that the President should be impeached by Congress if he is found to have committed high crimes. He very clearly has, so until you and the Republicans in Congress are willing to do their jobs and remove this criminal from office you don't have **** to say about the constitution.
 
If 2/3rds of Americans believe trump is a criminal, that means a percentage of trump supporters believe he’s a criminal and just don’t care.

Can’t say I’m surprised.
 
All the poll reveals is the inherent nature of news and commentary influencing how people perceive those in power.

While I tend to agree that Trump (and the Trump Organization) committed crimes before taking office we still do not have an indictment to validate the suspicion. All we really have is the perception of events, stories about investigations, and journalism / commentary to form opinion off of.

Having such a large percentage does speak volumes on perception of Trump, as did also when the overwhelming majority of voters believed Hillary committed a crime with her email server handling.

Ironically, we ended up with both of them running for President in 2016 and some of us then (including me) kept asking... "is this the best we really have?"
 
Mason66 said:
I wonder if breaking drug laws, as Obama did, meant he would be a bad President or is it just other kinds of laws that should not be broken.
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I can promise you every president from Reagan till now broke drug laws.
 
Mason66 said:
I wonder if breaking drug laws, as Obama did, meant he would be a bad President or is it just other kinds of laws that should not be broken.
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Smoking a little weed in College is not remotely the same as paying multiple porn starts to keep quiet about affairs they had with the President a mere months after the birth of his youngest son. Based on some legal experts Michael Cohen has implicated Trump in at least 11 felonies. Furthermore, many of those felonies were committed for the purposes of helping him win the Presidency in the first place. Given that Trump lost the popular vote regardless of those crimes it is a virtual certainty that those crimes won him the White House in the first place.

These crimes have radically altered the course of this country in a way that the majority of Americans did not want. If you want power in America you have to legally convince the Majority of the American people you should have it. If you can't do that without committing major felonies then you have no right to be in the White House.
 
Airyaman said:
24% did not.

That's lower than his typical 33-37% (his base) for anything of the sort. That means part of his base believes he committed crimes.
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Sadly they Don't care...
 
OrphanSlug said:
we still do not have an indictment to validate the suspicion.
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So when the Democratic Controlled House of Representatives votes to impeach(the presidential equivalent of an indictment) you will fully back his impeachment?

OrphanSlug said:
All we really have is the perception of events, stories about investigations, and journalism / commentary to form opinion off of.
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That is all a Jury ever has.

OrphanSlug said:
as did also when the overwhelming majority of voters believed Hillary committed a crime with her email server handling.
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Except for the fact that James Comey, who was a Registered Republican at the time and had every reason in the world to want to see Hillary Clinton go to prison knew full well, her actions were not bad enough to warrant any kind of charges against her. Clinton was at worst Negligent. Donald Trump intentionally, knowingly, willingly flaunted the law on numerous occasions.
 
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