Truth and consequences: How Trump's honesty problem has caught up to him

[DonViejo]

March 6, 2019, 8:48 AM EST

By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann

WASHINGTON — You have a problem on your hands when a man who’s pleaded guilty for lying to Congress is perceived as being more honest than you are.

That’s precisely the situation President Trump is facing when a Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday found voters saying — by a 50 percent-to-35 percent margin — that they believe Michael Cohen more than his former boss.

The only groups who believe Trump more than Cohen are Republicans (79 percent to 11 percent), whites without college degrees (50 percent to 37 percent) and white men (51 percent to 37 percent).

And it’s not just the Quinnipiac poll. Our own recent NBC/WSJ survey found that only 37 percent of Americans think that Trump has been honest and truthful about the Russia probe, versus 58 percent who disagree.

Trump still might be able to survive impeachment with those numbers; remember, it takes two-thirds of the Senate to convict and oust a president — so it would have to include a sizable number of Republicans.

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[duforsure]

1. Just wait,

After many more like Rhona Graff, Felix Sater, Allen Weisleberg, and Rick Gates are called before the House to testify, and the republicans get exposed more this will be another disaster causing many more to run away from them and their lies. trump's running a criminal enterprise out of OUR White House, while trying to con others to believe the opposite , and the Dems are corrupt for looking into it now. It'll get much, much worse for all involved , and very soon. Watch as more republicans start to distance themselves from trump and other republicans involved.