Poll: Most Republicans believe Trump's wiretap claim
Source: The Hill
Nearly three-quarters of Republicans believe President Trumps claim that former President Obama wiretapped him last year, a new poll shows.
Seventy-four percent of Republican respondents said it is very or somewhat likely Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in 2016, according to a CBS News poll released Wednesday.
Just 24 percent said Trump's claim, which he's produced no proof of, is "not very likely" or "not at all likely."
Trump claimed earlier this month on Twitter that Obama had his wires tapped at Trump Tower in New York City last year.
FBI Director James Comey said last week the Department of Justice (DOJ) has no information validating Trumps accusation.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/326266-poll-most-republicans-believe-trump-on-wiretap
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)atreides1
(16,079 posts)...or their personal view that a black man is only capable of being a criminal!!!
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)It's a cult.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)dalton99a
(81,512 posts)Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)they are lost.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)I prefer having the otherside firmly believing their own nonsense as the other 60% of america wonders what kind of morons are they....its OUR fault trump and conservatives are in control...as we have voters who wouldn't vote or voted for 3rd party because their view of not "able to support the lesser of 2 evils"...well folks...the like minded gave america 8 years of bush-cheney and those years of debacle and the same type were willing to gave america trump and the conservative dismantling of america....those in are own sphere of beliefs sold us out...
we have 2018 to take back america but we have get off our asses to do so...
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)...And move from the blue states where we win by millions to the red states where we lose by thousands.
rgbecker
(4,831 posts)They would get similar results showing they believe Obama to be a Muslim born in Kenya.
We are talking brainwashed idiots here.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)We must find a way to stop the brainwashing if we want to save our country.
Simply dismissing them doesn't solve our problem.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)it appears as if they aren't getting enough.
Gothmog
(145,267 posts)PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)If they get their news from Breitbart or Fox, that's it. It all boils down to a giant corporate propaganda mouthpiece. That's why.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Republicans are fools when it comes to good government.
TeamPooka
(24,227 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)regardless if they believe it or not because they like his bigoted policies.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Just not the way they think they are.
He was wiretapped and that is going to come out .. But it was not him that was targeted. It was the foreign actors he was talking to. He got himself tapped by making his shady deals with them.
They will never ever let themselves see it was his actions that got him tapped not Obama's though.
Just like they will never see him as the con he is.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Tell them any lie they want to and they will be true believers. Imagine that power. More liberal folks are better educated, more aware of facts, more apt to research on their own. It would never work on us.
Because they really really WANT TO BELIEVE. It makes no difference if a thousand news sources and a hundred intelligence agencies refuted the claim. Nothing is too outrageous not to be taken as gospel right on the spot and forever more.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)of epic proportions. He will look you dead in the eye and swear the sun rises in the west, sets in the east and pigs fly. He assumes they will believe him and THEY assume if he said it then it must be true. Unless and until they come to realize they have been conned, BIGLY, they will continue to be true believers and will be conned repeatedly. I don't know what it takes to remove the blinders from those who will not hear or see the truth. Perhaps those schooled in psychology and communications can give some guidance when the time comes to let them know the extent of the BIG CON he pulled last fall.
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)easiest to flip. The rest are permanently lost.