By Christopher Ingraham Christopher Ingraham Reporter covering all things data Email Bio Follow March 25 at 12:53 PM This weekend Attorney General William Barr released a memo summarizing the results
of a special prosecutor’s investigation of President Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. Barr wrote that he intends “to release as much of the Special Counsel’s report as I can consistent with applicable law, regulations, and Departmental policies," but that didn’t stop Democrats in Congress from demanding that the full contents of Robert S. Mueller III’s report be made public.
In 2018, for instance, just 12 percent of Americans said they had a “great deal” of confidence in the people running the executive branch, which includes the White House and the Department of Justice. As recently as 2002 that number was as high as 27 percent. These figures are driven, in part, by a growing partisan gap in trust: In 2018, 64 percent of Democrats said they had “hardly any” trust in the executive branch, compared with just 21 percent of Republicans who said the same. Although those numbers typically flip-flop depending on which party controls the White House, last year’s figures are notable for being the largest partisan gap in the poll’s four-decade history.
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