This just plays to a quiet secret that a LOT of us KNOW….
Ex-President Donald J. Trump has little opertunity to get his first government job back….
He could get the Republican nomination….
But American voters are NOT likely to elect a convicted one time loser ex-President for another four year term….
Nearly two-thirds — 62 percent — of Americans in a new poll said that former President Trump should not be allowed to serve as president again if he is convicted of a “serious” crime.
The Yahoo News-YouGov poll found that a slightly smaller majority — 52 percent — said they believe that Trump has committed a serious crime at some point in his life.
The former president is facing a litany of investigations, including the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into an alleged hush money payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election and the Justice Department’s dual investigations into his handling of classified documents and role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Just over half — 52 percent — also said that they considered falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn star to be a serious crime. Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan criminal probe in early April. He pleaded not guilty.
Some 66 percent also said that conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election was a serious crime, while 63 percent and 64 percent each said the same of attempting to obstruct the certification of the election and of inciting or aiding an insurrection against the federal government.
Further, 63 percent said they considered taking highly classified documents from the White House and obstructing efforts to retrieve them to be a serious crime….
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However, despite his legal woes, a large portion Americans in the poll said that the various investigations into Trump don’t affect their opinion of the former president. Among respondents, 43 percent said they have the same opinion of him as before, while 34 percent said they feel more negative about Trump and 13 percent said they feel more positive….
image…NBC News…Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York….AP Photo/Seth Wenig