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Majority of Americans say Trump deserves prosecution over 2020 election actions, poll finds
I Washington Times ^ | 08/17/2023 | Tom Howell, Jr

Posted on 08/17/2023 8:27:52 AM PDT by thegagline

The majority of Americans say former President Donald Trump should be criminally prosecuted for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

The poll found 54% of Americans said prosecution is warranted as Mr. Trump faces criminal indictments in federal court and in Fulton County, Georgia, over his post-election actions. About 42% said he should not face prosecution.<

Ninety-five percent of Democrats said Mr. Trump should be prosecuted, and 5% said he should not. Fifty-seven percent of independents said the ex-president should face prosecution, and 37% said he should not.

However, 12% of Republicans said Mr. Trump should be prosecuted, and 85% said he should not.

Overall, nearly two-thirds of Americans said the charges against Mr. Trump related to the 2020 election are either “very serious” or “somewhat serious.” “Not only do a large majority of Americans regard the federal charges as serious, more than half of Americans think the former president should face prosecution,” Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: breaking; law; persecution; prosecution; quinnipiac; surejan; thegagline; what2020election
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The pollsters neglected to ask those believed that Trump should be prosecuted, “what crime(s) did Trump commit ?” My guess is the pro-prosecution crowd would respond with legally untenable and largely emotional claims.

That said, Trump appears to be losing in the court of public opinion.

I have little faith that there will be any semblance of justice found in the Georgia, New York, or Washington DC courts. Further complicating matters for Trump is his innate inability to hire competent and trustworthy people.

1 posted on 08/17/2023 8:27:52 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

I call BS on that one!


2 posted on 08/17/2023 8:28:21 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: thegagline

I suggest we have 1 repub w EVERY 1 dem COUNTING the ballots. No “running” the ballots for joey through 3 or 4 times. Why cannot the repubs stand NEXT to them? When they say they are leaving and are done counting for the day a repub has to watch them ALL leave and guard the building so that they do not return or that trucks w boxes do not enter and deliver MORE dem ballots.

Why is this so hard? Guard the counters (why dems get to count and repubs are to stand in an area far away is STUPID). Stand NEXT to the dem counters and stay with them when they say they are done and want to leave. Guard the building-it is a public building outside. Stay there so that no “delivery trucks” appear, drop off boxes and leave.

Is it me or is this so easy and nobody protects our ballots? Get he people who run the banks to do this. If they are off a penny they have to account for it. They do not get to run the money through multiple times. Are Dems the ignorant ones or are the Repubs for allowing this idiocy.

And then they let the dems COUNT the ballots for week after til THEY win. How dumb are we to allow this. We THE PEOPLE need to look over this and not the idiots they pay to deceive us.


3 posted on 08/17/2023 8:28:24 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: thegagline

Yeh, sure! 😆


4 posted on 08/17/2023 8:29:27 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: thegagline
“what crime(s) did Trump commit ?”


5 posted on 08/17/2023 8:30:30 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: thegagline
All Americans who eat vegetables will die, 100% of the time.

I love these worthless stats threads.

6 posted on 08/17/2023 8:30:34 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Majority of Americans say Trump deserves prosecution over 2020 election actions, poll finds

That's what 3 years of non-stop MSM propaganda about Jan 6 and Trump's actions afterward get you. Ask the majority of Americans what exactly Trump did that deserves prosecution and you'll get a blank stare - they have no idea. They've just had it drilled into them that Trump did something wrong, never mind what.
7 posted on 08/17/2023 8:31:42 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: thegagline

I guess we prosecute Republicans by polling now.

The indictment is a travesty so even if I believed the poll, they are wrong.


8 posted on 08/17/2023 8:32:08 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Meanwhile Biden is literally destroying America, including with the banana republic indictments.


9 posted on 08/17/2023 8:33:35 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: thegagline

They should also be asked if Hillary Clinton should be held to the same standards and prosecuted as she tried to overturn the 2016 election.


10 posted on 08/17/2023 8:33:42 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: thegagline

Liars must lie …..


11 posted on 08/17/2023 8:33:57 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: thegagline

In this day and age polls have zero credibility. I have a hard time believing you are actually gullible enough to take it seriously. It is far more likely you are just another concern troll.


12 posted on 08/17/2023 8:34:31 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: thegagline

13 posted on 08/17/2023 8:35:25 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: thegagline

I am the poll!…

Since we don’t have actual law anymore…


14 posted on 08/17/2023 8:36:04 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: thegagline

Trump’s crimes:
Announcing in 2015 that he would be running.
Defeating a Bush
Defeating a Clinton

Unpardonable crimes in the swamp
The swamp didn’t get there by accident either.
It’s voted in by the American sheeple


15 posted on 08/17/2023 8:37:03 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: thegagline

2016 Polls say Hillary wins in a landslide! I seem to recall.


16 posted on 08/17/2023 8:38:30 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: thegagline

The Lies have started…..just as Pres. Trump won in a landslide last time….the media and every Lib organization and poll will say he was resoundingly defeated. We need to have daylight on every machine and every polling place.


17 posted on 08/17/2023 8:40:01 AM PDT by Greenidgypsy (I loathe the MSM.)
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To: SMARTY

Considering only democrats answer polls I think that is low.


18 posted on 08/17/2023 8:40:07 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: thegagline

Ds, indies, and MSM have not heard his side of the story which is the objective of non-stop court dates next campaign season. Ds don’t expect, or care, if they win any of indictments. They’d love him in jail, but silencing him is the key.

The truth can not get out.

Those numbers —probably cooked now—will improve bigly.


19 posted on 08/17/2023 8:40:56 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: SMARTY
"I call BS on that one!"

You're correct for the logical half of the country.

The other half consists of the ignorant ""we the sheeple".

20 posted on 08/17/2023 8:41:43 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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