Poll: Nearly twice as many Americans have more confidence in Mueller than Trump
More Americans would be more confident in facts presented by special counsel Robert Mueller than President Donald Trump, according to a recent poll by The Washington Post and George Mason University's Schar School.
The poll, conducted Feb. 6-10, showed 56 percent of respondents were more inclined to accept a version of the facts from Mueller, while 33 percent put more trust in Trump's accounts. Respondents were selected randomly; 32 percent identified as Democratic, 39 percent as independent and 26 percent as Republican.
Mueller is leading an investigating whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Trump has repeatedly denounced Mueller's efforts as a "witch hunt," and said in his State of the Union address that "ridiculous partisan investigations" were holding back American progress.
Respondents to the Post-Schar poll felt differently: 57 percent of respondents said Mueller is interested in finding the truth, while 36 percent said he is trying to hurt Trump politically.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/12/post-mueller-trump-confidence-1165558
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