The survey of about 1,000 likely voters across the United States, conducted Oct. 9–10, showed that 51 percent think it’s likely that “senior federal law enforcement officials broke the law in an effort to prevent Trump from becoming president.”
That figure includes 34 percent who say it is “very likely.”
Meanwhile, of the 36 percent who indicated “unlikely,” 22 percent indicated “not at all likely,” according to the poll.
The remaining 13 percent said they were “not sure.”
Voters were also asked the question, “On the basis of investigative findings to date, which 2016 presidential campaign is more likely to have illegally colluded with foreign operatives—Donald Trump’s or Hillary Clinton’s?” For this, poll results were evenly divided.
“President Obama knew Russia was interfering in the 2016 election,” the video’s opening statement says. “But his team just watched it happen.”
The FBI investigated the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential elections and into the beginning of Trump’s presidency. The FBI used the information contained in what’s now referred to as the “Steele dossier”—which claimed that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election—to obtain a spying warrant on a Trump campaign aide, Carter Page.
The dossier was produced by Fusion GPS and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. It was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Trump’s opponent in the election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Special counsel Robert Mueller took over the FBI investigation in May 2017 after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey the same month. Mueller brought the investigation to a conclusion in late March 2019.
Trump said that following the conclusion of the Mueller probe, it was “now time to look at the other side.”
“I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal, it’s a big deal,” Barr said, later adding, “I think spying did occur. ... The question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated. And I’m not suggesting it wasn’t adequately predicated, but I need to explore that. I think it’s my obligation.”
“Barr is following the facts where they lead about how the false collusion narrative started,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote on Twitter.
“This effort requires talking to intelligence agencies around the world. That’s why he’s gathering information from our allies, like Australia, Britain, and Italy.
“Democrats are running scared of what Barr’s fact-finding will uncover. That’s why they’re trying to undermine him. But he’ll get to the truth.”
On Oct. 2, Trump suggested for the first time that the ongoing investigations may result in a “major lawsuit.”
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