Where do Americans stand on convicting Trump of impeachment? Most support in new poll
BY SUMMER LIN
JANUARY 25, 2021 01:59 PM

A poll from Monmouth University found that 56% support Trump being impeached for his role in the Capitol riot and 52% want the U.S. Senate to convict Trump.
A poll from Monmouth University found that 56% support Trump being impeached for his role in the Capitol riot and 52% want the U.S. Senate to convict Trump. SHAWN THEW AGENCIA EFE

Most people in a new poll said that they support the impeachment of former President Donald Trump by the U.S. House of Representatives and want him to be convicted by the Senate.

The poll released Monday from Monmouth University found that 56% of people supported Trump being impeached for his role in the deadly riot at the Capitol earlier in January while 42% said they didn’t support his impeachment.

Fifty-two percent of people surveyed in the poll said they want the Senate to convict Trump while 44% opposed conviction. The survey was conducted from Jan. 21-24 with 809 U.S. adults. The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

Huge sample size. Oh yeah, nearly half don't agree.

The Monmouth University Poll was sponsored and conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute from January 21 to 24, 2021 with a national random sample of 809 adults

Gordon wrote on Jan 30^th, 2021 at 7:19pm:


He's defending again, Laugh. Most unbiased for someone who never supported his Dear Leader, no?

Gordon's not racist either. He lets them stay in Chez Gordon's.

(Reuters) - A slim majority of Americans say former President Donald Trump should be convicted by the Senate of inciting an insurrection and barred from holding public office, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll,

The national public opinion poll, conducted on Wednesday and Thursday, found that 51% of Americans think Trump should be found guilty for inciting the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. His trial in the Senate is expected to begin in the coming weeks.

Another 37% said Trump should not be convicted and the remaining 12% said they were unsure.

When asked about the former Republican president’s political future, 55% said Trump should not be allowed to hold elected office again, while 34% said he should be allowed to do so and 11% said they were unsure.

If the Senate votes to convict Trump, it would need to hold a second vote to bar him from holding office again.

The responses were almost entirely divided along party lines. While nine out of 10 Democrats say Trump should be convicted and barred from holding office again, less than two in 10 Republicans agreed, the poll showed.

The poll also found that 55% percent of Americans approved of President Joe Biden, who took office on Wednesday. In comparison, 43% approved of Trump during his first week of office in 2017, and Trump’s level of approval never rose above 50% in weekly polls conducted throughout his four-year term.

The U.S. House of Representatives, which impeached Trump a second time earlier this month, is expected to send the Senate the one article of impeachment on Monday, charging him with “incitement of insurrection.” Trump, the only U.S. president to be impeached twice, will also be the first former president to face an impeachment trial in the Senate after leaving office.

Trump’s final month in office was a chaotic period during which he continued to falsely claim that the Nov. 3 presidential election had been stolen from him and tried to stop the certification of the results confirming Biden’s victory.

At a rally on Jan. 6, Trump encouraged a group of supporters to march toward the Capitol where lawmakers were preparing to certify the election results, telling them “you’ll never take back our country with weakness.”

Five people, including a police officer, died in the violence that erupted as Trump loyalists broke past police barriers, entered the Capitol and trashed congressional offices and meeting areas inside.

According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll, about six in 10 Republicans still believe the 2020 election was the result of “illegal voting or election rigging,” about the same number who felt that way in a poll that ran shortly after the election.

Republicans are split, however, on the question of whether their representatives in Congress should work with Biden on common goals.

Among those respondents who identify as Republican, nearly half said they wanted their congressional representatives to work with the new president “even if that means compromising on issues that are important to me,” while four in 10 want them to oppose Biden at every turn “even if it means government can’t respond to urgent issues.”

That's true, Panther, but the Democrats have achieved one of the two objectives you spelled out to bring Mr Trump to justice. They can:

a) vote to convict Mr Trump with a majority of two thirds in the Senate. Or:

b) have their candidate defeat Mr Trump in the erection, and hand their evidence over to prosecutors to charge Mr Trump under the relevant criminal codes.

So far, it's not looking good for a. But for b, well. That day has finally arrived, no?

There is clear evidence of incitement to riot (Stop the Steal), electoral fraud (Stormy, the Ukraine quid pro quo) and violations of the Logan Act (campaigning in the White House) to name but a few. There are crimes listed in the Meuller Report and the Senate Committee Report on Russia Russia Russia. There are state crimes of money laundering and tax fraud currently being investigated by the New York DA. There are civil charges of rape before the courts in Carroll Versus Trump, and many more to follow.

As you have argued, you fully support the prosecution of such crimes where evidence exists in accordance with your much-loved Constitution, yes?

As Mr Trump has just been defeated after only one term as president, the statute of limitations is not in play, no?

Crimes, yes? Evidence, no? A citizen, yes? No presidential pardons, no?

Impeachment, as you have always argued, is political. Do you now support the use of the courts to see justice served?

Big Donger wrote on Feb 1^st, 2021 at 6:37pm:


Ah, but Kemo Sabi...there is a twist.  See Here.

It seems that the pardon (even a pocket one) is only a confession of guilt if it is actually used.  Trump can hold it secretly in his pocket until he desperately needs to use it...a very last, the last resort.

As for civil stuff....gawd knows, not me.  I am aware he has creditors who will be right up his clacker and that one of his go to Banks, Deutches, has wiped him.  There are a zillion likely criminal charges, and I reckon that New York AG will have him for tax and bank fraud first cab off the rank.