{"id":48885,"date":"2025-10-22T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48885"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:37:09","slug":"52-percent-say-trump-using-doj-to-target-political-enemies-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48885","title":{"rendered":"52 percent say Trump using DOJ to target political enemies: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just over half of Americans believe President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>is using the Department of Justice to go after his political enemies, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of those who were polled, 52 percent found the criminal charges to be unjustified. Broken down by party, 6 percent of Republicans see the charges to be unjustified, while 92 percent of Democrats feel the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among independents, 58 percent disagree with the charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quinnipiac found that more women, at 59 percent, found the charges to be unjustified, while 45 percent of men also thought the charges were unjustified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty-eight percent of respondents view the criminal charges as justified, including 83 percent of Republicans but only 5 percent of Democrats. Divided by gender, 42 percent of men and 33 percent of women think the charges are justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past several weeks, the Department of Justice indicted former FBI Director James Comey,<\/u><\/a> New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2002<\/u><\/a>and former national security advisor John Bolton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Comey pleaded not guilty to false statements and obstruction charges stemming from 2020 testimony he gave to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) concerning leaks at the FBI. A trial is set for Jan. 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comey filed a motion on Monday<\/u><\/a> to dismiss his charges without a trial, and said the Constitution allows people to speak out against the government and bars the government from retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James was indicted on two charges stemming from allegations of mortgage fraud<\/u><\/a>. The charges stem from the Federal Housing Finance Agency alleging<\/u><\/a> in April that James claimed a Virginia home as her primary residence while she held office in New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She called the charges \u201cbaseless\u201d and said<\/u><\/a>, while at a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D), \u201cI stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolton was charged with unlawfully sharing and storing classified information. After he surrendered\u2002<\/u><\/a>himself at a Maryland courthouse last week, he pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted Oct. 16-20 and included 1,327 respondents. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just over half of Americans believe President Trump\u2002is using the Department of Justice to go after his political enemies, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Of those who were polled, 52 percent found the criminal charges to be unjustified. Broken down by party, 6 percent of Republicans see the charges to be unjustified, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2029,35037,1807,1230],"class_list":["post-48885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-doj","tag-political-enemies","tag-survey","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48887,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885\/revisions\/48887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}