Polls Show Fewer Americans Think Trump Committed Crimes

The Trump team has pushed to stall the trials as much as possible, hoping to delay any verdicts until after the general election in November. Beyond that, his team has tried to wring the indictments for any political advantage it could find.

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The tactics may be paying off. The share of Americans who say that Mr. Trump committed serious federal crimes, steadily on the rise since the fall of 2022, has declined since December, the latest New York Times/Siena College poll found.

Voters across the political spectrum are now less likely to say that Mr. Trump acted criminally. Democrats are 7 percentage points less likely to say that they think Mr. Trump committed crimes, while the share of political independents who said the same is down 9 percentage points. Republicans have remained relatively stable, only ticking down one point since the end of last year.

Ed Morrissey

I don't think it's the delay that's creating this effect. It seems more likely that the threadbare nature of these indictments/lawsuits and the massively political manner in which they have been conducted have made Americans a lot more skeptical about these claims -- and they should be. 

The only exception to this could be the obstruction charges in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, where the allegations are more clear. But even there, the obviously political persecution in other cases can't help but undermine confidence in Jack Smith's prosecution in Florida.

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