Voters still aren’t buying GOP’s line on Trump’s hush-money trial

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Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'

House Speaker Mike Johnson traveled to the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse a couple of weeks ago to show his support of Donald Trump, and in the process, the Louisiana Republican made a familiar mistake. The GOP congressional leader began by dismissing the trial as a “sham,” before adding, “I think everybody in the country can see that for what it is.

This comes on the heels of a Yahoo News/YouGov survey that found 52% of Americans agreeing that Trump falsified business records to obscure the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, and a 47% plurality said the former president committed a crime in the process. Both of those numbers went up as the trial progressed. That data followed a national poll from Quinnipiac University, which found a 46% plurality agreed that Trump did something illegal in the hush-money scandal.

 

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