Rasmussen has released a new poll that shows the decline in public opinion regarding the FBI’s raid on President Donald Trump’s home.
44% of U.S. citizens are less likely to trust the FBI than 29 percent, while 29% say they trust it more.
A majority of Americans — 53 percent — think that the FBI is “Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo.”
This is where the Biden team has taken one of our previously vaunted law enforcement agencies — banana republic land. That’s a deep problem when we are built on the equal application of the rule of law, not the rule of men.
The only thing that’s saving the FBI from going completely underwater is the opinion of Democrats. The Republicans and the independents are less trusting them in the interim.
Approval of the FBI, including its raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, is highest among Democratic voters. 75% of Democrats (75%) have an favorable view of the FBI, compared to 63% in December. A mere 30% of Republicans view the FBI positively, which is down from 38% December. Nearly 50% of GOP voters are now very unfavorable about the FBI. Only 45% of voters who are not associated with any major party have a positive impression of the FBI, while 50% see it negatively.
Fifty percent (50%) of Democrats say the FBI’s recent raid on Trump’s home made them trust the FBI more, but 70% of Republicans say the Mar-a-Lago raid made them trust the FBI less. Unaffiliated voters say 46% believe Trump’s raid made them less trustful of the FBI, 18% say it increased their confidence in the FBI, and 29% claim that the Trump raid didn’t make a difference to their faith in the FBI.
It’s something to watch some of the folks on the left who have attacked the FBI for years and/or who have been in favor of defunding the police now suddenly embracing the FBI because they think it’s serving their effort to get Trump.
While the Biden team has accelerated the decline of the FBI, it’s been in bad straits since at least 2016, when Hillary Clinton got a complete pass. It is striking how different they have treated Trump and Clinton since 2016.
Many people believe this FBI move means Trump will be indicted. Maybe. Perhaps they simply want to keep the threat of legal action hanging around to threaten him with legal action if he wins. Maybe like an “insurance policy,” if we harken back to the words of disgraced former FBI official Peter Strzok.
But while the raid hurt the American public’s opinion of the FBI, it’s boosted the opinion of Trump with Republicans and whether they want him to run for president again, according to a Morning Consult poll.
With 58% favorability among GOP voters, the poll showed Trump’s highest lead on record since his 2020 presidential election loss. 71% also believe Trump should run to be president in 2024.
As we previously reported, according to a Trafalgar Group poll, it has increased the motivation of Republicans and independents to get out and vote — 83.3 percent of Republicans and 71.7 percent of independents. It was primarily political motivated, according to the majority of both parties.
While Americans believe that the “Biden Gestapo” was trying to take Trump down, instead they built him and the Republicans up stronger.
So great job, FBI.
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