Trump’s Classified Documents Case Moves Public Opinion. Now Voters Are Unlikely to Hear It.

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Putin kills his political opponents, Biden shoots his opponent in the ear, and makes him a hero!
TRUMP ~ 2024

You must have been dropped on your head as a babe.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

A federal judge granted former President Donald Trump a major legal victory on Monday by dismissing the entire criminal case over Trump’s handling of classified documents. Now, the odds are vanishingly slim that the prosecution will go to a jury before Election Day.

Could this prosecution have shifted public opinion—and by extension, will the judge’s dismissal of the case matter for November’s election? After Trump was found guilty of 34 criminal counts this May, commentary has proliferated about how Trump’s prosecutions may move public opinion, whether by reducing support for Trump or galvanizing Republican demands for retribution. Yet data-driven, academic research has been relatively scarce.

Furthermore, while recent commentary has focused on Trump’s conviction in New York for hush money payments, experts widely view the federal charges against Trump—involving his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election and retention of classified national security documents—as more serious. Could those federal prosecutions change voters’ minds, or would Trump’s anti-prosecution rhetoric only increase support for the former president and for retribution?

To answer that question, Columbia political scientist Daniel Markovits and I surveyed 3,000 Republicans and independents. Our survey was conducted online with a nationwide sample from October to December 2023 and focused on the classified documents case—the criminal prosecution that surveys show is most credible to Republicans. Our research also included an experiment: To test whether pro- or anti-prosecution rhetoric is more persuasive to voters, survey respondents were randomly chosen to listen to messaging from Trump’s federal prosecutor, the special counsel Jack Smith, or from Trump himself.

Our research shows that messaging from Trump’s prosecutor bolstered support for the prosecution and for democratic norms and also had a limited effect in reducing support for Trump. Contrary to widespread concerns that Trump’s rhetoric may generate backlash against the prosecution, we find that Trump’s anti-prosecution messaging did not increase support for Trump, polarization, or demand for retribution.

Trump’s Classified Documents Case Moves Public Opinion. Now Voters Are Unlikely to Hear It.

Republicans and independents who heard from Trump’s federal prosecutor became more supportive of the prosecution. Trump’s anti-prosecution rhetoric, by contrast, failed to increase support for the former president or for retribution.

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The title of the article could as easily have been..........

Trump’s Classified Documents Case Moves Public Opinion. That's Why Voters Are Unlikely to Hear It.

After his loses in the hush money, tax evasion, and defamation cases Don wants no part of the inside of a courtroom. No, sorry, not because "the system is rigged against me!" Because the evidence of his guilt is overwhelming. The docs case probably being the most clear cut in terms of the prosecution's ability to prove the crime he's charged with. Making his judge's ruling such a disaster for democracy and the pursuit of justice.

Hunter’s laptop and gun felony would have moved public opinion.
We’ll call it even OK?

 

[The Irish Ram]

You must have been dropped on your head as a babe.

lol. You must not be able to debate an item.
Biden has no right to be in possession of any classified documents. Biden gives classified info to China by way of the U. of Penn, and China pays Biden for them by way of U. of Penn.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

lol. You must not be able to debate an item.
Biden has no right to be in possession of any classified documents. Biden gives classified info to China by way of the U. of Penn, and China pays Biden for them by way of U. of Penn.

All of that applies to Trump even more, who lied and cried and denied and obstructed.

 

[The Irish Ram]

The President is allowed to have the material. Joe Biden was not. Trump doesn't receive payment for classifieds from Penn State. Biden does.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The President is allowed to have the material. Joe Biden was not. Trump doesn't receive payment for classifieds from Penn State. Biden does.

No, he is not allowed to take it without protocols he ignored.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Trump ignored nothing, and the material was safely under lock and key. As oppose to Biden who had box after box that he was NOT allowed to be in possession of strewn all over the place.

 

[AntonToo]

Hunter’s laptop and gun felony would have moved public opinion.
We’ll call it even OK?

Hunter is running for office?

 

[AntonToo]

Trump ignored nothing, and the material was safely under lock and key. As oppose to Biden who had box after box that he was NOT allowed to be in possession of strewn all over the place.

Cool story...is that why Judge Cannon dismissed the case on ludecrous technical grounds that prosecutor was TOO INDEPENDANT FROM BIDEN'S DOJ?

Short of premature death, Trump is going to be convicted and jailed for this flagrant law breaking. The only question is how long it will take.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Cool story...is that why Judge Cannon dismissed the case on ludecrous technical grounds that prosecutor was TOO INDEPENDANT FROM BIDEN'S DOJ?

Short of premature death Trump is going to be convicted and jailed for this flagrant law breaking. The only question is how long it will take.

Nope. The appointment was illegal. It’s against the law.

 

[AntonToo]

Nope. The appointment was illegal. It’s against the law.

The appointment was standard, long settled process.

Biden's DOJ is bending over backwards asigning independant prosecutors for there to not be any conflicts of interest in politically charged cases. And what do they get for it? Trumptard judges like Thomas and Cannon using it as technicality to try to get guilty-as-sin Trump off the hook.

This is not going to age well for you fools.

 

[Nostra]

The appointment was standard, long settled process.

Biden's DOJ is bending over backwards asigning independant prosecutors for there to not be any conflicts of interest in politically charged cases. And what do they get for it? Trumptard judges like Thomas and Cannon using it as technicality to try to get guilty-as-sin Trump off the hook.

This is not going to age well for you fools.

Jerk Smith is a hard left nutbag, Dumbass. Hardly independent. His appointment was illegal.

Deal with it.

 

[Marener]

The President is allowed to have the material.

Trump was not the president after January 20th 2021 and therefore had no legal right to retain any classified documents.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Hunter is running for office?

Hunter is the gift that keeps on giving!