Most believe Trump guilty of crime as his NYC trial comes to an end, CBS News poll finds

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-trial-poll-most-believe-guilty-new-york/?ftag=CNM-05-10abh9g

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  1. Here’s a preview of the article:

    As Donald Trump’s trial in New York City nears closing arguments, most Americans believe he is guilty of a crime in this case. But they are less sure what the jury will do after it deliberates next week.

    Fifty-six percent — a majority — say Trump is definitely or probably guilty of a crime in this case, in which he has been charged with falsifying business records to hide a “hush money” payment and influence the 2016 election.

    Opinions are highly partisan, with nearly all Democrats believing Trump is guilty and about eight in 10 Republicans saying the opposite. Republicans are less certain in their views. While three in four Democrats say he is “definitely” guilty, only half of Republicans say he is “definitely” not.

    **Read more:** [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-trial-poll-most-believe-guilty-new-york/?ftag=CNM-05-10abh9g](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-trial-poll-most-believe-guilty-new-york/?ftag=CNM-05-10abh9g)

  2. This is the hardest of all of them to understand, and it’s perfectly clear if you’ve been following along.

  3. Because he is. It isn’t even down to reasonable doubt. The guy did it.

  4. “Here’s why this is bad news for Biden”

  5. Trump admitted it on camera everyday outside of the courtroom. There is zero doubt that he did it. He’s guilty.

  6. The folks who scream about law and order just don’t actually care as long as the criminal panders to their petty grievances.

  7. What matters is will a conviction change anyone’s votes.

    I think it will big-time, but I am worried it will have no effect.

  8. Even MAGA morons know he’s guilty, they just don’t care.

  9. Everything we read about this trial points to guilty which if we would have heard back in 2016 would have sunk Trump’s career. Back then he was a con man with no leverage and now he is still a con man but with dirt on everyone.

  10. Watch the punishment be something stupid like a $10,000 fine. I have absolutely zero confidence in the US legal system to hold him accountable. It is absolutely insane.

  11. Yeah he is so guilty that if he walks away from this thing “found” not guilty I will fear for the future of this country.

  13. This is such a ridiculous tactic in journalism.

    56% believe he’s guilty? “Most of America believes he’s guilty!”

    The MONSTROUSLY MORE RELEVANT side to that story are the 44% that believe he’s innocent or not sure. In a trial that has gotten wall to wall coverage showing all the damning evidence with not a shred of evidence that would absolve him.

  15. Doesn’t matter what we think. None of us are the jurors (presumably)

  16. IMO the headline fails to convey the worrying part: only 37% of respondents said he was “definitely guilty” and 19% “probably guilty” with a standard error of 4.4%

    That boils down to 51.6% saying guilty after subtracting 1 standard error

  17. How many times do we need to hear “most people believe X about Trump”?

    It’s always gonna be like 55%-60%. The rest of the country will never believe or admit to believing anything bad about him that the public/media is currently focusing on him.

  18. I’m not getting my hopes up after hearing someone on the jury got his news from Twitter and Truth Social.

  20. I saw “most” in the headline, made a wild guess that it was only 60%. Read the article. It’s even less, 56%. We are so fucked.

  21. I suspect Trump has skewed the importance of these polls by using terms like “fake news” which allows his supporters to say something they don’t like isn’t true, and call is a ‘belief’.

    It’s not a ‘belief’. It’s just lying in an entitled, dismissive way.

  22. Someone already went to jail for this crime. Its will be insane if somehow he’s mot guilty.

  23. People say that back in the Nixon days, Trump’s behavior, if it were transported back to those days, it would be immediate expulsion/impeachment from the Presidency and then **immediately** lead to the charges that finally came these days.

    What those people tend to forget is that those things (impeachment/expulsion/charges) would have happened during the **Obama years too** since, if you recall, *Mitt Romney* was who they chose to run against their sworn enemy. The single most hated Democrat President (from a Republican perspective) to have come around in a LONG time.

    They refer to Romney, now, as literally having nothing whatsoever different about him than that of the Democrats. They view Romney in the **same group** they group Obama and Biden into. Trump only had his win happen a mere 4 years after Romney ran against Obama round 2.

    Republicans have gone berserk.

  26. The fact that this isn’t closer to 95% shows what a shitshow of hyperpartisanship this country as fallen into

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