Analysis: The only opinions the Mueller investigation changed were opinions of the Mueller investigation
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 2 at 12:46 PM The conclusion of the probe being conducted by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was somewhat anti-climactic. Much of what his final report included was material that was either part of the already public indictments his team had obtained or that had been reported by major news outlets over the course of his investigation.
The report considered a relatively small window of Trump’s life, focusing on the year-plus that he was a candidate and his tenure in the White House. Nonetheless, Republicans were a lot less likely to say they thought Trump had committed crimes before taking office in a Quinnipiac University poll taken after the Mueller report came out than they were willing to say that in a poll taken in March.
Quinnipiac’s polling also shows that Republicans were slightly less likely to say that Trump had committed crimes as president after the report came out — mostly because most didn’t think Trump had done so in the first place.
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