Most Americans think Trump committed crimes; believe him less than admitted liar Michael Cohen
President Trump pumps his fist as he arrives at the Greenbrier Valley Airport in Lewisburg, W.Va., on July 3. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 5 at 2:53 PM I’m going to bury the lead on just how dire this new Quinnipiac University poll is in its assessment of how Americans view President Trump.
Now we get into cringier territory. Nearly three-quarters of Americans say that Trump is not a good role model for children, including more than a third of members of his own party. Quinnipiac also asked respondents about the congressional testimony last week offered by Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen. A plurality of Americans think Cohen told the truth in his testimony, though many Americans said they weren’t sure. That said, Cohen’s honesty is being evaluated against a pretty low bar: Trump’s. Half of respondents said that they were more likely to believe Cohen than Trump.
In a boon to the Democrats’ newly robust plan to dig into Cohen’s allegations and Trump’s past behavior, most Americans thought Congress should press forward with investigating the claims made by Cohen — even as they were about split on whether those investigations would be a distraction from legislation.
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