You know that Trump wants to make his criminal trial about politics?
Well?
THAT seems to be NOT to be a politics he’s winning….
Manhattan DA Bragg, who had been labeled as ‘minor league’ seems to have misjudged….
The trail fronted across the nations media is NOT helping Donald Trump as some though it would…
There are NO crowds outside the court house….
Trump has had push other Republicans to show up as support for him….
He may seem slightly ahread of Biden in some polls…
But his poll numbers basicly remain stuck where they are….
And?
In some polls?
Respondents say a conviction of the ex-President would cost the ex-President their vote…..
(So Trump supports say they would vote for him even if he was a axe murderer)
For the first time, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that a majority of Americans (52%) believe former President Donald Trump “falsif[ied] business records to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star” — the charge at the center of his ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan.
This represents a new high — and a significant increase from previous Yahoo News/YouGov polls conducted before courtroom testimony began last month, suggesting that coverage of the trial may be shifting perceptions of Trump’s conduct.
If the jury agrees, Trump could become the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony.
In contrast, just 22% of Americans say Trump did not falsify business records to hide a hush money payment to a porn star.
The new survey of 1,794 U.S. adults, which was conducted from May 10 to 13, also shows a dip in the former president’s favorable rating — from 45% in March to 41% today.
Americans increasingly accept the case against Trump
Ahead of the 2016 election, Trump’s then attorney Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to keep adult film actress Stormy Daniels
from going public with her story of an alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Cohen has testified that Trump told him to pay Daniels, then signed off on a roundabout reimbursement scheme.
Prosecutors have charged Trump — who categorized his payments to Cohen as legal fees — with 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal criminal activity.
The latest numbers show increasing acceptance of the prosecution’s case against Trump.
Americans now approve of the hush money trial by a 12-point margin (49% to 37%); in April, that margin was 7 points (43% to 36%). The share of Americans who think Trump did, in fact, falsify business records has increased by 4 points since last month, and by 7 points since March 2023. The shares of that group who think Trump committed a crime in doing so (47%) and who say that crime is serious enough to warrant indictment and a trial (40%) are higher than ever before as well.
Likewise, the number of Americans who believe key witness claims are true is much higher than the number who believe they’re false….
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