{"id":1620952,"date":"2022-08-25T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T21:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620952"},"modified":"2022-08-25T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T21:35:33","slug":"exclusive-plurality-of-independents-dont-trust-doj-or-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-plurality-of-independents-dont-trust-doj-or-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Plurality Of Independents Don\u2019t Trust DOJ Or FBI"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fexclusive-plurality-of-independents-dont-trust-doj-or-fbi%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=1620952&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>A new poll out Wednesday shows a plurality of independents have lost faith in federal law enforcement two weeks after FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home. <\/p>\n<p>According to a survey from the Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action shared exclusively with The Federalist, nearly 48 percent of independent respondents said the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI \u201care too political, corrupt, and not to be trusted.\u201d Less than 44 percent said otherwise. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Trafalgar-Survey.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Trafalgar-Survey.png 793w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Trafalgar-Survey-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Trafalgar-Survey-768x433-1.png 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Republicans were most distrusting of the federal law enforcement agencies with more than 68 percent identifying the FBI and DOJ as corrupt compared to nearly 25 percent who said \u201cthey are to be respected for their pursuit of justice and law and order.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GOP-Trafalgar-Poll-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GOP-Trafalgar-Poll-1.png 793w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GOP-Trafalgar-Poll-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GOP-Trafalgar-Poll-1-768x429-1.png 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>More than 73 percent of Democrats, on the other hand, reported trust in the FBI and DOJ while nearly 20 percent said the agencies were \u201ccorrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted among 1,092 likely voters in the general election between Aug. 19-23 with a 2.9 percent margin of error. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI has lost the trust of half the country,\u201d said Mark Meckler, the president of the Convention of States. \u201cThis is historically one of the most trusted law enforcement branches in America. The fact that just about half the country believes they\u2019re not to be trusted is a radical thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voters were basically evenly split over whether the DOJ investigation into former President Trump is intended to prevent him from being on the ballot in 2024, with 48.6 percent believing that is the goal of the government and 48.5 percent saying otherwise. Three percent were unsure. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"787\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOJ-Investigation-Reason-Trafalgar-Survey.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOJ-Investigation-Reason-Trafalgar-Survey.png 787w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOJ-Investigation-Reason-Trafalgar-Survey-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOJ-Investigation-Reason-Trafalgar-Survey-768x432-1.png 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Respondents were also split over whether the two agencies were being truthful about their investigation of the former president.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n<p>Digging into the crosstabs, Meckler said, revealed troubling signs for Democrats, where more than half of black respondents, nearly 54 percent, said the FBI and DOJ were \u201ccorrupt and not to be trusted.\u201d More than half of Hispanics surveyed, more than 55 percent, believed the DOJ\u2019s investigation of former President Trump is politically motivated. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that \u201ctraditionally Democratic constituencies\u201d say \u201cthe FBI and DOJ is being weaponized against their political opponents,\u201d Meckler told The Federalist, is a \u201cvery dangerous thing for Democrats in the upcoming midterms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted nearly two weeks after roughly 30 plainclothes agents executed an unprecedented raid of a former president\u2019s residence. The search was signed off on by a federal magistrate, ostensibly regarding potential violations of the Presidential Records Act, but it possesses all the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/19\/think-the-fbi-deserves-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-this-laundry-list-of-corruption-should-make-you-think-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hallmarks<\/a> of the routine witch hunt operations used to go after Trump from within the agency for the past six years. <\/p>\n<p>Days after the raid, Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a press conference where he professed to personally signing off on the search of the president whose election neutered Garland\u2019s Supreme Court nomination in 2017. The search, Garland said, was \u201cnarrowly scope[d],\u201d though\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/12\/breaking-fbi-raid-warrant-demanded-seizure-of-literally-any-record-trump-ever-saw-during-4-year-presidential-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">examination<\/a>\u00a0of the warrant shows authorization to confiscate any and all documents Trump may have come into contact with as president.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, meanwhile, Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/24\/you-will-not-look-at-that-hunter-biden-laptop-johnson-whistleblowers-reveal-more-fbi-corruption-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> a whistleblower report revealing FBI leadership instructed agency staff to dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the FBI obtained the Hunter Biden laptop from the Wilmington, DE computer shop, these whistleblowers stated that local FBI leadership told employees, \u2018you will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop\u2019 and that the FBI is \u2018not going to change the outcome of the election again,&#8217;\u201d Johnson wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray. \u201cFurther, these whistleblowers allege that the FBI did not begin to examine the contents of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop until after the 2020 presidential election\u2013potentially a year after the FBI obtained the laptop in December 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s whistleblower findings came one month after Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley published another whistleblower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/whistleblowers-reports-reveal-double-standard-in-pursuit-of-politically-charged-investigations-by-senior-fbi-doj-officials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> accusing the FBI of similar misconduct. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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