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Comey’s firing meets disapproval, but view of Trump little changed: poll

AARON ZITNER, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, MAY 15, 2017

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/comeys-firing-meets-disapproval-but-view-of-trump-little-changed-poll-2017-05-15 accessed May 15, 2017

● 川普免聯邦調查局長職對一般民眾看法影嚮不大。倒是參議院兩黨議員都不以為然。很難說川普因此而很快下台。

2017.5.16

More Americans disapprove than approve of President Donald Trump’s decision last week to fire James Comey as director of the FBI, but the tempest in Washington over the dismissal has done little to reshape views of Trump among the public, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds.

Some 38% of people in the survey disapproved of the president’s decision to fire Comey, while 29% approved. About one-third said they didn’t know enough to have an opinion.

Views of Trump’s decision were strongly shaped by party affiliation, with few Republicans disagreeing with the president’s action and few Democrats supporting it.

Comey’s dismissal was politically sensitive and dominated the conversation in Washington last week, as the FBI chief had been overseeing an investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and its possible ties to Trump campaign associates. Russia has denied any wrongdoing, and Trump has called any suggestions of collusion with the Kremlin a “hoax.’’