Although former President Trump’s first criminal trial is officially underway, most Americans do not believe he did anything illegal in the hush money case, according to a recent poll.
investigation, published last week According to the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 31% believe the former president’s actions were “unethical but not illegal,” and 14% said the former president did nothing wrong.
Just over a third of all respondents, or 35%, believe President Trump acted illegally in the incident. According to the survey, the remaining 19% said they did not know enough about the incident to answer.
Despite attempts to delay the trial until after the November election, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, made history on Monday as the first former or current U.S. president to face a criminal trial. .
The lawsuit alleges that President Trump used business records to reimburse his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an affair before the 2016 presidential election. They claim it was illegally tampered with.
Trump appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, but unlike in past courtrooms, he must appear every day during the trial.
Nearly 100 New Yorkers filled the courtroom on the first day of jury selection. More than half of the employees were fired because they were unable to be “fair and impartial” when it came to the criminal case against the former president.
The first day of the trial has concluded and is scheduled to resume at 9:30 a.m. ET Tuesday.
The latest investigation was conducted before the highly publicized trial began.
The Associated Press-NORC poll also found that Americans, like President Biden, believe that President Trump’s time in office has hurt the country for a variety of reasons.
The survey was conducted April 4-8 among 1,204 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level.
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