Morning Consult polling editor Cameron Easley on Monday said that President Trump’s political base is responsive to message that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is a politically motivated “witch hunt.”
“What we’ve seen for some time now both in the president’s strategy of how he’s handling and the way his own base is responding to it is that he is just trying to discredit the probe as a wholly political thing that is just about the Democrats trying to undermine his own victory ,” Easley told Hill.TV’s Joe Concha on “What America’s Thinking.”
“We’ve seen a lot of data that shows that his base is responsive to that,” he continued.
Trump has repeatedly called the probe a “witch hunt” and a ” hoax,” saying that it is biased against him.
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released last week found that 71 percent of Republicans said they believed the probe was a “witch hunt.”
The president took to Twitter over the weekend and Monday amid of new filings released by Mueller in the federal Russia probe.
Trump labeled Mueller as “conflicted” and “biased” before Mueller released the filings on Friday.
Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn’t the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of “legal” at the corrupt Clinton Foundation? A total Witch Hunt…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018
….Will Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest be listed at the top of his Republicans only Report. Will Andrew Weissman’s horrible and vicious prosecutorial past be listed in the Report. He wrongly destroyed people’s lives, took down great companies, only to be……..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018
He lashed out again on Monday morning saying there was “no collusion” between his presidential campaign and Russia and accusing Democrats of calling a “private transaction” and campaign contribution.
— Julia Manchester
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