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struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)Sixty percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has been dishonest in the Russia investigation, but it's a mixed bag on impeachment hearings.
May 5, 2019, 9:00 AM EDT
By Mark Murray
WASHINGTON Sixty percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has been dishonest in the Russia investigation, while only a third believe the report by special counsel Robert Mueller clears the president of wrongdoing.
Still, the public remains divided on impeaching Trump, with nearly half of respondents opposing holding impeachment hearings, and with the other half supporting either immediate impeachment proceedings or future congressional investigations to study the issue further.
Those are the findings of the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which was conducted after Muellers 448-page report was released to the public on April 18 ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/hung-jury-public-remains-divided-over-mueller-probe-new-nbc-n1001886
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)... where as no on really ever liked Red Don
Xolodno
(6,398 posts)If he came out bluntly and stated the Watergate burglary was a case of his minions going a few steps too far and was unaware, but panicked when he found out, apologized...declare the information he received was mostly useless, because all he had to do was turn on the news in the morning and he would know what his political opponents were going to do to him (and that was true), then apologize again because it happened on his watch. He wouldn't have had to resign. Reagan learned from this.