As he and his associates face increasing legal scrutiny, President Trump has publicly and privately discussed potential pardons for his former and current associates, but a new The Hill-HarrisX poll finds that Americans would overwhelmingly disapprove of such pardons.
In a Dec. 15-16 survey of 1,000 registered voters, only 28 percent agreed that it would be “proper” for Trump to pardon former aides convicted by special counsel Robert Mueller. The vast majority, 72 percent, said no.
Trump has continued to raise the idea of granting clemency to former associates, including his onetime campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. In a November interview with The New York Post, the president said that he “wouldn’t take it off the table,” referring to a potential pardon for Manafort.
View the complete December 21 article by Matthew Sheffield on The Hill website here.