{"id":1189103,"date":"2022-01-05T00:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1189103"},"modified":"2022-01-05T00:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:19:36","slug":"poll-many-u-s-voters-believe-fbi-is-bidens-personal-gestapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-many-u-s-voters-believe-fbi-is-bidens-personal-gestapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Many U.S. Voters Believe FBI Is Biden&#039;s &#039;Personal Gestapo&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-many-u-s-voters-believe-fbi-is-bidens-personal-gestapo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1189103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Many U.S. voters think the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cpersonal Gestapo,\u201d according to a Rasmussen poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/partner_surveys\/voter_approval_of_fbi_declines\">released<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoger Stone, an adviser to former President Donald Trump, has said there is \u2018a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI \u2026 as Joe Biden\u2018s personal Gestapo,\u2019\u201d the poll report states. \u201cForty-six percent of voters agree with Stone\u2019s assessment, including 29 percent who Strongly Agree. Thirty-eight percent disagree with Stone\u2019s claim, including 25 percent who Strongly Disagree.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The results of the poll, which was conducted with 1,000 likely U.S. voters on Dec. 29-30, come after the FBI&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/01\/exclusive-james-okeefe-after-fbi-raid-we-will-not-let-fear-dictate-actions\/\">conducted<\/a> a raid on the home of Project Veritas founder James O\u2019Keefe, looking for information about Ashley Biden\u2019s diary.&nbsp;<span>The margin of sampling error is +\/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18120690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/wi\/ap\/27\/senate-homeland-security-fbi-director-christopher-wray-testifies-senate-homeland-security-governmental.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18120690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/senate-homeland-security-fbi-director-christopher-wray-testifies-senate-homeland-security-governmental-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"654\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss security threats 20 years after the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Voter opinion on whether FBI Director Christopher Wray is influenced by the president has reached a \u201cnear-complete reversal.\u201d Now, 50 percent of voters believe Wray is influenced by Biden \u201cin his decision making,\u201d and only 26 percent think he is independent of the administration. Twenty-five percent of those polled are unsure. In May 2017, 53 percent thought the FBI director was independent while 26 percent thought he was beholden to the president.&nbsp;Approval of Wray has also declined since 2020.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOnly 10 percent of voters now say Wray is better than most who held the job before him \u2013 down from 13 percent in May 2020 \u2013 while 25 percent believe Wray is worse than most previous FBI directors, up from 17 percent in 2020,\u201d according to the report. \u201cThirty-seven percent think Wray\u2019s performance as FBI director has been about the same as most of his predecessors, and another 28 percent are not sure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By political affiliation, more Democrats (63 percent) than Republicans (38 percent) and unaffiliated voters (35 percent) have a favorable impression of the FBI. Fifty-seven percent of Republicans and 56 percent of unaffiliated voters have an unfavorable view of the FBI compared to 30 percent of Democrats. Biden\u2019s most ardent supporters are more likely to favor the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans (64 percent) and unaffiliated voters (47 percent) also agree with Stone that there is \u201c<span>a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI \u2026 as Joe Biden\u2018s personal Gestapo.\u201d Thirty percent of Democrats agree. Both Republicans and unaffiliated voters are also more likely than Democrats to think the FBI director is influenced by the president.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many U.S. voters think the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cpersonal Gestapo,\u201d according to a Rasmussen poll released\u00a0Tuesday. \u201cRoger Stone, an adviser to former President &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}