President Trump’s insistence that he’s been exonerated by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election began hours after the release of Attorney General William P. Barr’s letter outlining what Mueller found. …
The Post and our polling partners at the Schar School of Policy and Government asked Americans last week whether they agreed with Trump’s assessment. Or, more specifically, we pointed out that Mueller said Trump wasn’t exonerated and that Trump said he was and asked which man respondents were more likely to believe. Most Americans said they were more inclined to believe Mueller. Most Republicans, though, said they were more inclined to believe Trump. …
With most of the Mueller report still under wraps, it’s understandable that there would be some disagreement on the determinations contained in the document. But our poll revealed something else remarkable about allegations of an effort by Trump’s campaign to collude with the Russian interference effort: Most Republicans don’t think there was an interference effort. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post