A Rasmussen poll has found that only 18% of American voters are convinced that the government played no role in the January 6 breach.
More than six in ten Americans believe it is at least “somewhat likely” that federal government agents helped cause the January 2021 Capitol riot, a new poll has revealed, suggesting that legacy media they have failed to qualify the incident as an incited insurrection at the time. – President Donald Trump.
The poll, released this week by Rasmussen Reports, shows that among the 61 percent of American voters who believe the feds likely helped spur Trump supporters to breach the Capitol, a majority see that scenario as “very likely “. Only 30 percent of Americans think it’s unlikely that undercover agents were involved in the riots, including 18 percent who say it’s “not at all likely.”
Rasmussen said his findings reflect a dramatic shift in public opinion in the two-plus years since the riots. For example, a poll conducted in the week immediately following the incident found that half of Americans believed Trump should be impeached and imprisoned for causing his supporters to storm Congress and disrupt the certification of the electoral victory of President Joe Biden. By the end of 2021, 58% of voters believed that the congressional panel appointed to investigate the riots had become a “partisan committee armed against innocent Americans.”
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More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes for their alleged involvement in the riots. Many of the defendants have been held in prison, allegedly in harsh conditions, without the option of bail. Republican lawmakers have suggested that undercover government agents were involved in the riots and have questioned why an Arizona man named Ray Epps, who was seen on video urging Trump supporters to go to the Capitol, has not been accused
The latest poll found that 70 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of Democrats and independent voters now believe the feds are likely to help cause the unrest. About 80% of all voters agree that all video footage of the riots should be released to the public. Earlier this week, US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson a video of the riots that had been withheld from the congressional panel.
An independent Rasmussen poll this week showed 34 percent of American voters believe Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea of a “national divorce” between Republican- and Democratic-controlled states. Only one in three believe Biden is keeping his campaign promise to unite the country.
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