He said that a poll found that “50% of Americans AGREE that Robert Mueller’s investigation is a Witch Hunt.” That claim is in line with the USA Today report. A Suffolk/USA Today Poll, just out, states, “50% of Americans AGREE that Robert Mueller’s investigation is a Witch Hunt.” @MSNBC Very few think it is legit! Do you agree?”There are a lot of ways to ask a question such as this, and it’s useful to measure whether Americans share Trump’s skepticism of the Mueller investigation. It’s possible that a respondent could think the Mueller investigation is a witch hunt but not that Trump has been investigated more than past presidents for political reasons, or vice versa. Meanwhile, a November Quinnipiac poll found that more registered voters said the investigation was “legitimate” (50 percent) than a “political witch hunt” (44 percent).

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2019 22:30 UTC