Half of Republicans approve of Trump undermining the intelligence community while standing with Putin

… Over the weekend, The Post and our partners at ABC News released a new poll conducted after the Trump-Putin summit. “At a news conference with Putin, Trump expressed doubts about U.S. intelligence conclusions that the Russian government tried to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” the poll said, then asking if respondents approved or disapproved of his having done so.

More than 4-in-10 Americans strongly disapproved of Trump’s treatment of the issue at the news conference. But 51 percent of Republicans said they approved, 28 percent of them strongly. CONT.

Philip Bump, Washington Post