"Americans have a lot more confidence in the courts and in the intelligence community than...in Trum

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"Americans have a lot more confidence in the courts and in the intelligence community than...in Trump"
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Trump has got that 35-40% base that cling to him no matter what!



Despite Trump’s attacks, intel community and courts trounce him in new poll

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By Matthew Chapman | July 3, 2017


For his whole career, Donald Trump has been trashing and smearing everyone who gets in his way. As president, two of his top targets have been the intelligence community and the courts.

But a new poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist shows that, while trust in public institutions generally is weakening, Americans have a lot more confidence in the courts and in the intelligence community than they do in Trump.

Trump’s attacks on those two institutions may play well with his base, but the country as whole does not agree.

According to the poll, 60 percent of Americans trust the intelligence community “a great deal” or “a good amount,” versus 37 percent who say “not very much” or “not at all.” The figures are identical for the courts.

The Trump administration, on the other hand, is distrusted by a margin of 61 to 37.

The public simply isn’t buying Trump’s lies about the court system and the intelligence community.

From the outset, Trump painted intelligence officials as a “Deep State” of Obama loyalists secretly abusing their power to snoop, leak, and otherwise undermine him, and his attacks have only gotten louder as the Russia investigation continues to heat up...............................