Most US voters say Trump committed crimes before becoming president: Poll
Nearly two-thirds of US voters think President Donald Trump committed crimes before getting elected, and nearly half say he’s committed crimes as president, according to a new poll.
According to the Quinnipiac University Poll, 64 percent of those surveyed said Trump committed crimes before becoming president, and 45 percent believe that he has committed crimes while in office.
“When two-thirds of voters think you have committed a crime in your past life, and almost half of voters say it’s a tossup over whether you committed a crime while in the Oval Office, confidence in your overall integrity is very shaky,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll.
Democratic voters were most likely to believe Trump had committed a crime, at 89 percent; Independents agreed, by 65 percent; while Republicans were more skeptical, with 33 percent thinking he’d committed a crime.
The poll was conducted March 1-4, after Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, accused him of being “a racist,” “a conman” and “a cheat” during a testimony in February at the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee.
Cohen told Congress about his role in a hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump.
The embattled attorney says that Trump directed him to make the payments and produced a check written to him by Trump in 2017 that he says was a reimbursement for the payments.
Cohen is set to start a three-year jail term in May after he pled guilty to lying to Congress, financial crimes and campaign finance violations related to the hush-money payment.
More than 70 percent of voters said a presidential candidate paying money to hide a negative story about themselves during a presidential campaign was unethical, while 40 percent of voters say such an action is both a crime and unethical, the Quinnipiac poll found.
Another 20 percent say such an action is unethical but not a crime, while 20 percent said it wasn't unethical and 18 percent said they weren't sure.
Trump has lashed out at Michael Cohen, accusing him of "going rogue" and committing "perjury on a scale not seen before."
However, most voters believe Cohen over Trump, according to the poll, which found that 50 percent of voters said they believed Cohen while 35 percent said they believed Trump.
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